Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. (MGC; Tokyo) has announced new capacity investment at the ophthalmic lens monomer IURESIN plant in Yokkaichi Plant (Yokkaichi City, Mie, Japan) and the sales launch of a bio-based lens monomer which is produced in the existing…
MAIRE S.p.A. announced that its Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit, Nextchem, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has been awarded a new contract by Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) to carry out a PRE-FEED for the gasification and methanation of the…
South Korea-based SK ecoplant and Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) announced a sale of Bloom’s electrolyzer technology to deploy hydrogen as an energy source in a large-scale green hydrogen demonstration with the Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd (KOSPO) and…
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has begun a multi-million-dollar front-end-engineering design (FEED) for the Netherlands’ flagship carbon transport and storage (CCS) system, Aramis. The development marks a significant step towards achieving the European Union’s decarbonisation targets announced in the European Green…
TechnipFMC (Houston) has been awarded a major integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (iEPCI) contract by Petrobras to deliver the Mero 3 HISEP project, which uses subsea processing to capture carbon dioxide-rich dense gases and then inject them into the…
AGC Biologics Inc. (Bothell, Wash.) announced plans to construct a new manufacturing facility at AGC Inc.’s Yokohama Technical Center in Japan. The new site is a part of the company's strategic growth strategy to create more high-quality pharmaceutical development and…
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Ferro Alloys Corp. Ltd. (FACOR), part of Vedanta, have agreed on the design and delivery of a ferrochrome plant for FACOR’s expansion project in Bhadrak, Odisha, in India. The contract value of approximately EUR 80…
Properly locating a simple 1–2-in. balance line can make all the difference in successful reboiler operation Steam reboilers are crucial to production in petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants, representing huge capital investment in distillation columns. Regardless of the investment made…
Metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) have garnered considerable attention as candidate materials for a number of applications, such as gas storage, molecular separation and catalysis, because their organic and inorganic components are highly tunable at the molecular level. Since being introduced…
Energy recovery in spray-drying processes can reduce production costs, but involves trade-offs. Using milk powder as an example, this article describes a spreadsheet method to evaluate exhaust-gas recirculation scenarios for optimizing spray drying Dairy processing is among the most energy…