Almost by definition, chemical engineering is a “green” discipline today, as it so often involves…

An alternative desalination process that reduces energy consumption by over 50% compared to best available…

In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) announced the winners of…

The Fine Chemicals Div. of Takasago International Corp. (Takasago; Tokyo, Japan; www.takasago.com) has commercialized a…

The use of solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is an appealing…

Last month, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) launched a new crosslinking acrylate monomer, hydroxpropl carbamate…

Forward osmosis (FO) has been recognized as a valuable technology for many applications including wastewater…

Practically all of the coal-fired power plants in the U.S. collect ash from the bottoms…

A new anode material with nanostructured interfaces between barium oxide and nickel prevents deactivation by…

A newly introduced cryogenic grinding mill from Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.; www.airproducts.com/ultrafine)…

  Graphene from dry ice Researchers at Northern Illinois University (NIU; DeKalb, Ill.; www.niu.edu) discovered…

The properties of gold nanoparticles could be combined with those of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to provide…

GE Power & Water (Trevose, Penn.; ge.com) has introduced an improved membrane bioreactor (mbr) technology…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) — a Jaypee…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has begun construction in Hawaii of…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) is increasing the production capabilities of its methyl methacrylate plants…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is going to test a new on-site, electronic-grade fluorine-gas production…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a world-scale production site for acrylic acid,…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has begun building a second hexachlorodisilane (HCDS) production facility…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; LG;…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today officially opened its newest California hydrogen fueling station…

BASF’s Catalyst Div. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has announced a new round of capital investment projects…

In the spring of 2011 Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and Alco-Naphtha JSC started up…

SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM)…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Southern Co. (Atlanta, Ga.; www.southernco.com) for…

Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) is investing CHF 5.8 million ($8 million) in a formulation plant…

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill: www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Oman Oil Refineries…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced a long-term agreement with Shell Oil Co.…

In March 2010 Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.de) signed…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has formed a licensing alliance with…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Emirates Aluminium PJSC (EMAL) have agreed to terms for…

    Qingdao Haijing Chemical(Group) Co. has selected Ineos Technologies (www.ineostechnologies.com) vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by China National Coal Group Corp. to provide…

Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (www.shell.com/globalsolutions) has signed an agreement with the South Refineries Company…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that it has been selected…

Plant Watch Outotec to deliver the world’s largest iron-ore pelletizing plant in Brazil June 30,…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (www.purac.com), a subsidiary of CSM N.V. (Amsterdam, the…

How long does it take a six-tray, 4-ft dia. deisobutanizer to achieve steady state? That…

Many solid materials can exhibit self-heating, which — if unchecked — can progress to a…

Modern industrial-automation systems rely entirely on digital technology, that is, computers. And as is typical…

Capital cost assessment is an integral part of process design when building or expanding a…