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Metso Outotec delivers grinding package for NALCO alumina refinery in India

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a contract for the engineering and delivery of a bauxite grinding package to National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) Damanjodi Alumina Refinery for their 5th stream expansion project in Odisha, India. Typically, the value of this…

Repsol to commercialize industrial AI platform

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) will begin marketing ARiA, its proprietary, cloud-based data and analytics platform, in collaboration with Accenture (Dublin, Ireland). Originally conceived for internal use by Repsol, the platform will now assist other companies in accelerating the use of…

Eni and Uniper to collaborate on decarbonization efforts in North Wales

Eni UK and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly evaluate decarbonization initiatives in North Wales. The collaboration, in line with the UK government's ten point plan for green industrial revolution,…

Clean Harbors to acquire used-oil collection and refining assets from Vertex Energy

Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Ma.) announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Vertex Energy, Inc. (Houston) to acquire certain assets related to Vertex’s used motor oil collection and re-refinery business in an all-cash transaction for $140 million, subject to…

Maire Tecnimont and FerSam to develop green ammonia and bio-ethanol projects in Latin America

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries NextChem and MET Development have reached an agreement with FerSam Uruguay S.A. (FerSam), part of FerSam Group, to develop projects for the production of green ammonia and bio-ethanol in Latin America.  Under the…

Kemira to increase production capacities for sodium hypochlorite and polyaluminum chloride

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is increasing production capacity of water treatment chemicals in Yanzhou, China. These investments are another step forward in the execution of Kemira’s growth strategy and serve the growing water treatment demand in China and the Asia-Pacific…

U.S. Steel and Equinor to develop U.S.-based carbon-capture and hydrogen projects

United States Steel Corp. (U.S. Steel; Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced execution of a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Equinor US Holdings Inc., an affiliate of Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway). Under the MOU, the companies will study the potential for carbon…

Recently Published Books for July 2021

The following is a list of recently published books that may be relevant and useful to various areas within the chemical process industries (CPI). Tribomaterials: Properties and Selection for Friction, Wear, and Erosion Applications. By Kenneth G. Budinski and Steven…

Announcing the Kirkpatrick finalists

Five innovative technologies have been selected as finalists for the 2021 Kirkpatrick Award for Chemical Engineering Achievement.* The finalists were selected based on three criteria: the difficulty of chemical engineering problems met and solved; novelty of the technology; and evidence…

Landfill Gas Processing: Plant-Design Considerations

There are several technologies used in the disposal of landfill gas (LFG). Here are some key elements that can guide engineers in designing an optimized LFG processing plant People generate trash. Trash is stored in landfills. Landfills contain bacteria, which…