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Arkema starts up expanded acrylic acid reactor in Clear Lake

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…

2019 CEPCI Updates: August (prelim.) and July (final)

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 wins EPC contract for Enterprise PDH project

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 to open a Digital Factory

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 partners with ArcelorMittal in pilot project to capture and recycle carbon

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…

Solvay to raise Tecnoflon fluoroelastomer FKM capacity in Italy

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 to deliver crystallization technologies for new fertilizer plant in Tunisia

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 and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures enter CO2-capture agreement for Mississippi biofuels plant

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,…

2019 Kirkpatrick Award Finalist presentations

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…

Face-to-Face Networking Brings Value to Chem Show

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…