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 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, 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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
A catalytic process to selectively break carbon-carbon bonds within the polymer chains of polyethylene and polypropylene could allow the use of waste plastics to make biodegradable surfactant molecules. Researchers led by the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) at…
Physical adsorption phenomena play a critical role in many separation and purification processes, including separations of industrial gases, purification of gases, moisture removal from fluids, water purification and others. Adsorption is a surface phenomenon in which a fluid (gas or…