A huge market for lithium ion batteries is expected to develop as car makers move…

  Renewable jet fuel Houston-based bioenergy company Terrabon Inc. (www.terrabon.com) has been awarded a $9.6-million,…

An underground coal-to-liquids (UCTL) technology is undergoing pilot testing at Oak Park, near Melbourne Australia,…

At the 2nd Annual ChemInnovations Conference and Expo (Houston; September 13–15), Hemi-O Technologies LLC (Corpus…

A technique that improves the efficiency of ethanol plants by lowering the cost of dewatering…

Professor Yuki Taniguchi at the Chemicals Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan, www.res.titech.ac.jp/~gosei/taniguchi/index.html) has…

Impending standards requiring that cellulosic ethanol be used in gasoline blending have focused attention on…

China produces about 98% of the world’s electrolytic manganese metal (EMM), a vital ingredient used…

A 60% reduction in the sludge volume was achieved at the sewage treatment plant of…

A rapid pressure-swing-adsorption (rPSA) system to separate carbon dioxide from fluegas is being developed by…

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its main operating company Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) has…

Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) was awarded an energy optimization project for one…

Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) says it will build its first chemical plant for the production…

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

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded contracts by Petron to supply sulfur recovery,…

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

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) plans to produce phthalate-free plasticizers from bio-based succinic acid from…

On October 20, the official ceremony of commissioning of the new 1,350 metric tons per…

Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) officially…

Cobalt Technologies (Mountain View, Calif.; www.cobalttech.com) and Rhodia (Paris, France; www.rhodia.com) today announced the execution…

The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com) is further expanding its position in the…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a contract with Posco E&C, the Engineering and…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill: www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Yantai Wanhua…

Europe’s biggest urea plant comes on-stream: ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) contractors have supplied…

Gruppo Mossi and Ghisolfi (M&G; Milan, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Chemtex (Wilmington, N.C.;…

Envergent Technologies LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.envergenttech.com), a Honeywell company, has signed a memorandum of…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its global asset base and product portfolio for…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Chemical for a grassroots lubricant-base-stock…

Bulgaria’s economy has registered steady growth in recent years that relies mostly on industry. Non-ferrous…

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has begun producing hyperpure polycrystalline silicon at its Nünchritz…

ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and SGC Energia (SGCE) have entered into a master…

The first production facilities in the $1.4-billion expansion of BASF-YPC Co(Nanjing, China; www.basf-ypc.com.cn)  have now…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract by North West Redwater Partnership to…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will build a new production plant for hydrogen peroxide…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp), jointly with APEX Energy Sdn. Bhd. of…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that MTP HPJV (Thailand) Ltd, its hydrogen peroxide…

The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, has…

Lanxess AG (Levewrkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to Brazil with three major new…

Resinall Rütgers Resins GmbH (RRR; Duisburg, Germany) — a joint venture (JV) between Rütgers Novares…

  There are various reasons that make filtering necessary in processes. The raw materials might…

One of the key components in the operational success of chemical process industries (CPI) facilities…

To confidently design, operate and troubleshoot solids-handling processes, engineers need to characterize powder flow in…

Equilibrium stage simulations are the nearly universal process design tool for mass transfer columns that…