Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has been awarded an order for the installation of Fisher control valves at the Saudi Kayan petrochemical complex in Al Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. For the project, Emerson will supply 780 Fisher digital control…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and Ensyn Corp. (Wilmington, Del.; www.ensys.com) have launched Envergent Technologies, LLC, a joint venture (JV) to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will invest around €10 million in Australia in a carbon dioxide recovery unit. The Air Liquide unit will re-use up to 69,000 metric ton (m.t.) of C02 from the BassGas natural gas plant and be…
Malvern Instruments (Malvern, U.K.; www.malvernpanalytical.com/en) has entered into a collaborative agreement with industrial process optimization specialist SDTech (Ales, France; www.sd-tech.com/homepage.php). SDTech works primarily in custom micronization and the analysis of fine and ultra-fine powders, delivering Process Expert services to a…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) will adapt its proprietary process for carbon dioxide capture to the special conditions prevalent in and mode of operation of combined-cycle power plants for the Norwegian utility Statkraft. The project kicked off in January 2009…
Bookings by members of the German Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer´s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt; www.vdma.org) rose to a record 32.8 billion euros in 2008 compared to 32.4 billion euros in 2007. “Since the beginning of the upturn in 2003, bookings have…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has been awarded a contract worth around 500 million euros by RWE Power AG to supply two cutting-edge boilers for its Eemshaven power plant in the Netherlands. The new hard coal-fired units will provide clean, reliable…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) is to acquire a 28% stake in the Italian solar company Archimede Solar Energy S.p.A. (ASE; Massa Martana) and thus expand its competencies for solar thermal power plants. ASE is the sole producer of solar…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) expects to nearly triple its annual photovoltaic sales to more than $1 billion in 2012 based on strong fundamentals for long-term revenue growth in the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, combined with the company’s ability to…
GE Water, a business unit of GE Energy (Atlanta, Georgia; www.ge.com/energy), and the National University of Singapore (NUS; www.nus.edu.sg) announced that they have signed an agreement to establish the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology Center on the campus of NUS. Together,…