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Mitsubishi Chemical licenses patent for biomass-based polyester to Mitsui Chemicals
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently signed a licensing agreement with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) for the related patent including MCC-owned basic patent (JP4380654) on a biomass-based polyester. The products covered by this license include polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which use…
Plug Power and Lhyfe announce partnership to develop green hydrogen plants in Europe
Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) and Lhyfe, a French producer and supplier of green hydrogen, announced an partnership to jointly pursue and develop green hydrogen generation plants throughout Europe. The initiative seeks to generate a total hydrogen capacity of 300 MW…
Merck and Siemens collaborate on digitalized supply-chain solutions
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), an innovation leader in automation and digitalization, Germany, plan to develop and implement solutions that offer unprecedented levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M) connected industrial value chains. This would help…
Recently Published Books for the CPI: November 2021
The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI) Biodiesel Technology and Applications. Edited by Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Rajender Boddula and Mashallah Rezakazemi, Wiley & Sons Publishing Ltd.,…
The 46th Kirkpatrick Award winner
Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that the winner of the 46th Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award is Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), for its hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell. We congratulate Haldor Topsoe for this winning achievement. Halsor Topsoe’s TK-6001…
Haldor Topsoe wins the 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award
Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that the winner of the 46th Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award is Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), for its hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell — an alumina-supported NiMo hydrotreating catalyst. NiMo catalysts are in…
Improving a Thermal Loop: The Power Controller
Controlling the temperature of a process using a thermal loop is important in many applications. The importance of a power controller is discussed here For any process where temperature needs to be monitored or controlled, a thermal loop is required.…
Effective Contracting for a Pilot Plant
Contracting a pilot plant is a viable approach for any organization. However, it can be fraught with potential issues, which need to be understood and addressed in advance Reduced in-house resources have limited the options many organizations have for designing…
Perfluorinated Ion-Exchange Membranes: Development and Application
Perfluorinated ion-exchange membranes are developing beyond legacy applications to find use in a wide variety of emerging markets, including renewable energy Ion-exchange membranes are used in numerous industrial processes, including seawater desalination, electrodialysis and the production of commodity chemicals via…
New pressure-feed vessels bring many benefits for ribbon blenders
This company’s ribbon blenders, which are custom-built for multi-phase mixing, now come with an optional pressure-feed vessel. Wherein minor liquid ingredients must be thoroughly blended into powder or other solids, a pressure-feed vessel enables 100% discharge of the liquid component…