Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has successfully brought on stream, and on schedule, a new 90,000-ton/yr acrylic acid reactor at its Clear Lake, Texas site. Equipped with the latest production technologies, this new reactor replaces two decommissioned reactors, which each had…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for August 2019 decreased from the previous month’s value. The decline is the sixth within the last seven months. While the Construction Labor subindex rose in…
S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston; www.sbec.com) announced it has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by an affiliate of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) for Enterprise’s second propane dehydrogenation plant (PDH 2)…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) will open a Digital Factory in Paris in early 2020 that will bring together up to 300 developers, data scientists and other experts to accelerate the Group’s digital transformation. Total’s goal is to leverage the…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) is partnering with ArcelorMittal in the first industrial scale demonstration plant to capture carbon gas from the steelmaking process and recycle it into chemicals, specifically advanced bioethanol. In this project, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction…
Brussels S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will lift production capacity of its Tecnoflon FKM peroxide curable fluoroelastomer by nearly a third at its plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy, to serve ongoing strong demand growth for high performance sealing applications in the…
Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a processing plant integrating HPD crystallization systems designed to produce phosphorus fertilizer. To produce pure crystalline fertilizers, the ALKIMIA Group, a Tunisian chemical holding company specialized in the production of phosphate salts for industrial applications,…
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Velocys plc (Velocys), has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biomass-to-fuels project in Natchez, Mississippi,…
Kirkpatrick Award Presentation The 2019 Kirkpatrick Award for Chemical Engineering Achievement will be bestowed during the Chem Show on Wednesday Oct. 23 from 11:15 AM to 1:00 PM in Room 2D12/13. The award has been given by Chemical Engineering every…
As the latest iteration of the Chem Show kicks off in New York City, exhibitors and attendees alike are anticipating the chance to engage colleagues in face-to-face networking that are afforded by convening a group from multiple sectors of the…