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Startup of the world’s first integrated CCS of coal-fired power plant
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide recovered from emissions from a…
Samsung Engineering signs contract for urea plant in Bolivia
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed its first Latin American contract at an official ceremony with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company. Joining the historic event was Bolivian President Evo Morales, YPFB President Carlos Villegas, and…
Report on cost and practicality of two new OECD toxicity tests is available
Normal 0 A survey on the current costs and practicalities of following two new OECD guidelines for testing chemicals has been published on the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) website. The “Report on Survey of Worldwide Contract Research Organizations: Costs and…
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemical production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has been selected to help produce key ingredients for fuels, synthetic rubber and plastics in China. China’s Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical Co. will use UOP’s C4 Oleflex…
ABB to automate world’s largest iron ore mine investment in Brazil
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won orders totaling $140 million from Vale S.A. (Vale) to supply automation and electrical equipment for the world’s largest iron ore project investment, which comprises in the development of a mine and a processing plant…
Jacobs wins contract from Lotte Chemical
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract by Lotte Chemical UK Ltd. to provide construction management services for a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant to be built at the Wilton International Site in Redcar, Cleveland, U.K.…
Athabasca Oil selects GE’s water-treatment technologies for SAGD project
Athabasca Oil Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has awarded GE (www.ge.com) a contract to design and supply an integrated evaporator system for its 12,000-bbl/d Hangingstone oil sands operation located near Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta, Canada. GE’s produced water evaporation process…
Air Products supplies integrated oxy-fuel solution to Jinxin Glass
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract to supply its integrated oxy-fuel solution to Jinxin Glass in Jiyuan, Henan Province, China to help Jinxin reduce emissions and improve productivity and quality in its glass production. A manufacturer…
U.S. chemical industry grows as global manufacturing continues contraction, ACC says
The U.S. chemical industry was one of eight industries reporting growth during August, while a host of others, including textiles, fabricated metals and machinery reported contraction, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management that was analyzed in the…
LS9 fatty alcohol demonstration facility starts up in Florida
LS9, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.ls9.com) a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels, today announced the successful start-up of its Florida operations with an initial production run of fatty alcohols. LS9 completed the…