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Chemetry and Braskem to build ethylene dichloride demonstration plant in Brazil

Chemetry Corp. (Moss Landing, Calif.), and Braskem, the leading producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas, will construct and operate a Demonstration Plant using Chemetry's eShuttle technology for the production of ethylene dichloride (EDC) in Brazil.   The eShuttle EDC…

CPI Bookshelf: September 2020

The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): Trevor Kletz Compendium: How his Best Process Stories are Still Relevant Today. Andy Brazier, Fiona MacLeod, David Edwards and others, Elsevier Press, 2020,…

CE Podcast: Blockchain

On this edition of the CE Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins talks to Hannah Davis, the blockchain project lead at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She provides an explanation of what blockchain is, and describes use cases that are…

CE Podcast: Changing Chemical Industry Business Models

On this edition of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins talks to Jan Haemer and Bhavin Manjee, two partners at the industry consulting firm Simon-Kucher & Partners. We discuss commercial challenges facing the chemical industry and how some…

Haldor Topsoe and Comprimo announce global strategic alliance on TopClaus technology

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Comprimo (part of Worley) have announced a global strategic alliance to jointly license the TopClaus sulfur removal and recovery solution. TopClaus helps users achieve more than 99.9% sulfur removal efficiency (SRE) by integrating two…

MHI Compressor International awarded contract by world-class Gulf Coast ammonia facility

MHI Compressor International Corp. (MCO-I; Houston) will supply the compression for Gulf Coast Ammonia’s (GCA) new state-of-the-art ammonia production facility in Texas City. The equipment will be purchased by Air Products, which will build and operate the facility in parallel…

Fluor JV achieves final provisional turnover on major Kuwait refining project

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its joint venture (JV) with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries has successfully achieved final provisional turnover of the facilities for Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s (KNPC) Mina Abdullah Package 2 (MAB2) Clean…

Gevo and Praj to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel in India

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring…

Lummus Technology announces successful startup of bio-ethers unit in Greece

Lummus Technology (Houston, Tex.) announced the successful start-up of its CDTaee unit for Hellenic Petroleum's refinery in Aspropyrgos, Greece. For this start-up, the existing CDTame unit was revamped to the latest generation of CDTaee technology for bio-ethers production. The new…

Veolia agrees to acquire OSIS maintenance business from Suez

Veolia (Paris) has announced the signature of an agreement with the Suez Group to acquire its subsidiary Suez RV OSIS, which specializes in the maintenance of sanitation networks and infrastructure and on-site industrial services (for the most part, industrial maintenance…