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Saint-Gobain Glass and VEKA Recycling forge partnership to improve glass recycling
Saint-Gobain Glass has forged a new partnership with VEKA Recycling that represents a major advancement in sustainable construction and post-consumer glass recycling in the U.K. fenestration industry. Saint-Gobain has also been bolstering its glass-recycling capabilities in the U.S. with projects…
Dow to sell interest in DowAksa composites joint venture for $125 million
Dow Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell its 50% interest in DowAksa Advanced Composites Holdings BV (DowAksa) to Turkish chemicals firm Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş., a company of Akkök Holding.…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Genetic Engineering Tools in Industrial Microbiology
Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce future dependence on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals. To further the economic viability of industrial fermentation processes, engineers have turned to genetic modification to stimulate production…
Direct synthesis of C2 hydrocarbons using photoelectrochemistry
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif. www.lbl.gov), along with a host of collaborators, have made progress on an artificial photosynthesis system that converts CO2 into ethane and ethylene using nanostructured copper and perovskite. In a recent publication…
Selecting an Activated Carbon for Regenerable Steam Systems
In adsorption processes using steam to regenerate activated carbon, the carbon’s physical characteristics can greatly impact efficiency and optimization Processes using activated carbon as an adsorbent (Figure 1) can be ideal candidates for regeneration using hot fluids like CO2, CH4,…
This MOF selectively adsorbs CO2 from biogas and can be regenerated under mild conditions
Biogas — produced from anaerobic digestion of organic matter — contains a mixture of gases, with methane and carbon dioxide as the predominant components. To use biogas as a fuel source, purification of the gas is typically needed to remove…
Molten-salt electrolysis process quickly scales up U.S. cobalt-refining capacity
A proprietary molten-salt electrolysis (MSE) process originally designed for battery manufacturing has now been re-optimized for North America’s first operational cobalt-refining plant. The DirectPlateTM MSE technology developed by Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. (Kettering, Ohio; www.xerionbattery.com; see Direct molten-salt electroplating cuts…
Decision-Making with AI-Driven Insights
Chemical processors are harnessing the powerful fusion of advanced analytics and increasing artificial intelligence capabilities to optimize processes and enhance operational productivity As analytical technology matures throughout the process industries, a new generation of chemical process industries (CPI) engineers are…
Use of AI in Chemical Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere in industry, but the nuances of its application are not generally understood completely. Presented here are descriptions of the different subtypes of AI and their main applications currently in chemical processing The term…
Refining Intelligence: Transforming Operations with AI
When challenged by fragmented knowledge and time-intensive manual analysis, artificial intelligence helped to accelerate decision-making during operational events Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in the chemical process industries (CPI) — it is a present-day driver of…