The Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) — a technical community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a global organization leading the safe advancement of hydrogen as the next-generation fuel — has announced a partnership with energy giant…
Linden Cogeneration (Linden, N.J.) and Phillips 66 (Houston) have reached an agreement for Linden Cogen to take hydrogen-containing fuel gas produced at the Bayway Refinery, and blend it with natural gas used to fuel the 172MW F-class Linden Cogen unit…
On behalf of Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway), GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has been contracted to design and deliver the world’s first pilot plant for hydrolyzing krill protein. The client is a biotechnology company based in Norway that fishes for…
LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) has announced that its Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero, will undertake the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a facility in Port Talbot, South Wales, that will produce over…
Johnson Matthey plc (London, U.K.) announced its acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Oxis Energy Limited, based near Oxford, UK. Oxis Energy was a lithium-sulfur battery developer with assets which can be adapted for the manufacture of components…
Haltermann Carless (Frankfurt, Germany), a company of the HCS Group GmbH, and a leading supplier of high-value hydrocarbon solutions, will become the world's largest producer of Cyclopentane and Cyclopentane blends following the completion of its new hydrogenation plant at the…
Modern temperature instrumentation simplifies technician access, calibration, and SIL procedures. By Keith Riley, Endress+Hauser As temperature instrument technology has matured, there is less focus on the actual measured value and more on added value. Accuracy and stability are considered basic…
Successfully scaling up a mixing process involves understanding several important timescale parameters that can impact chemical reactions and equipment performance Many industrial processes are defined by rates. For example, rates of mass and heat transfer, rates of reaction and rates…
Detailed plans for handling hazardous materials should be a central part of any chemical plant’s disaster preparedness plan Over the past year, many chemical facilities managed to overcome extreme circumstances. One instance of an extreme event was the winter storm…
This overview presents guidance for the safe design of piping systems that are used for the distribution of hydrogen gas Hydrogen gas is a very volatile fluid that has a high propensity to leak. This is a very dangerous and…