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Incremental Electrification Drives Sustainability
For decarbonization of chemical processing sites, electrification opens a new world of efficiencies and cost benefits The industrial sector is responsible for one-third of the world’s end-use energy consumption, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA; Washington,…
Electrification of Industrial Facilities
Manufacturing complexes may benefit from using more electricity instead of steam and fuel gas for their energy needs. Improved energy efficiency, lower emissions, higher reliability and debottlenecking of utility systems may be achieved Electrification is a popular buzzword when energy…
Kraton announces SBS copolymer capacity expansion in Ohio
Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced a significant expansion of its styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymers (SBS) supply capability at its Belpre, Ohio facility starting in 2024. The production capacity is expected to increase by 24,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) by 2025. "We…
Saint-Gobain to sell its glass-processing business in Switzerland
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its glass processing business Glassolutions in Switzerland to the privately-owned German group AEQUITA. The business generated sales of around €25 million in 2022 and employs approximately 70 people…
Honeywell to supply automation technologies for SGP’s biorefinery in Panama
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SGP BioEnergy will implement Honeywell’s Experion System Technology at its Golden City Biorefinery in Colón, Panama. As one of SGP’s key automation contractors, Honeywell will deploy its Experion technology solutions for the plant’s distributed…
SP Chemicals selects Lummus’ Catofin and Novolen Technologies
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an integrated technology award from SP Chemicals and its subsidiary SP Olefins. SP Chemicals will license Lummus' CATOFIN® technology for a new 800,000-ton/yr propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit, and SP Olefins will license Lummus' Novolen technology for a new…
Umicore steps up solid-state battery technology development with investment in Blue Current
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) and Blue Current, a leading manufacturer of silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries, have agreed to strengthen their collaboration on the development of solid-state battery technology, with Umicore investing a minority stake in the U.S.-based start-up. This…
Yara Clean Ammonia and Enbridge to construct blue ammonia plant in Texas
Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA; Oslo, Norway), a Yara International ASA company, and Enbridge Inc. (Houston) signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and construct a world scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility as equal partners. The proposed facility, which…
CE Podcast: Plastics Recycling and PHA
On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, our guests are polymer chemist Scott Trenor, a principal scientist at Milliken Chemical Company, and Anindya Mukherjee, the co-founder of GO!PHA, an organization promoting the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as an alternative…
Ampol and ENEOS exploring biofuels production at Brisbane refinery
Ampol Ltd. (New South Wales, Australia) and ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the production of advanced biofuels at the Lytton refinery in Brisbane, Australia. The parties have also executed…