A thermochemical process for converting biomass to ethanol, other biofuels and chemical intermediates will be…

Last month, Cargill (Minneapolis, Min.; www.cargill.com) broke ground in Chicago on a $22-million manufacturing plant…

A process that makes glass by "zapping" the raw materials with a plasma as they…

Engineers at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu) are developing solar concentrators that have the potential to…

Optoacoustic gas detection determines gas content via the measurement of acoustic pressure waves that are…

The production of hydrogen by water splitting promises to become less expensive through a solar-energy…

Among this year’s award winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA; Washington, D.C.) Presidential…

Dow Chemical (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) has started using a renewable energy source — methane from…

Chisso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.chisso.co.jp) has established a new joint-venture (JV) company to produce solar…

Corn residue left in fermenters after ethanol production could find a future use as a…

QuantumSphere, Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) has commercialized electrodes coated with the firm’s Nano NiFe…

Time consuming and prone to error, microscopy — the manual counting of yeast cells with…

Flowserve Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) has introduced the Valtek Valdisk high-cycle seat, claimed to be…

Researchers at the University of Surrey (U.K., www.surrey.ac.uk) have discovered a method to make ultra-small,…

The global market for carbon-capture technologies was worth $88.7 billion in 2007, and is expected…

On July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.) released an Advanced Notice…

The high salt concentrations, extreme pH values and high temperatures required in biotechnological research on…

Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, in which LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) is holding a minority…

During the course of this year Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany;  www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to start…

Wassertechnik Essen GmbH, a subsidiary of the Austrian EVN AG, has commissioned Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH…

Siemens’ (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC…

Plant Watch Metso to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX in Brazil July 1, 2008…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in the production of its sustainable complexing agent…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and SolarWorld AG (Bonn, both Germany; www.solarworld.de) have officially opened…

Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is to significantly expand its leading position on the European…

Arabian Industrial Fibres company, an affiliate of SABIC, has selected LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com)…

The French chemical group Arkema plans an expansion of its hydrogen peroxide factory in Leuna,…

As fuel prices continue to rise, energy management is everyone’s business Market trends suggest that…

The techniques used for sterilization have a major impact on product quality and safety where…

Learn what causes caking and how testing methods can help identify critical parameters for controlling…

Gate Gate valves are designed to operate fully open or fully closed; When fully opened,…

An organizational lessons-learned system facilitates the transfer of knowledge from one project team to another…

The continuing growth in the importance of chemical processing, including oil-and-gas processing, increases the need…