Base-catalyzed nucleophyllic additions with a modified zeolite
A new solid-state basic catalyst for forming carbon-carbon bonds has been developed by Masaru Ogura,…
Commentary
Magic trays, brown solvent
Every five years or so, a call would come in and once again I would…
In The News
Chementator
Scaleup for a new delignification process
This month, Borregaard Industries Ltd. (Sarpsborg, Norway; www.borregaard.com) will start up an integrated, pilot-demonstration plant…
A more sensitive sensor for ions in solution
A research team from the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, and the School of…
Iron-based catalyst shows promise for alkene hydrosilylations
A catalyst in which iron atoms are complexed with the ligand pyridine diimine (PDI) has…
May Chementator briefs
Double-effect coating Researchers at the Leibniz-Instutut für Neue Materialien GmbH (INM; Saarbrücken, Germany; www.inm-gmbh.de) have…
Making structured carbon fibers from polyethylene
Researches at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.;…
Municipal solid waste is one feedstock for this bioethanol process
The technology surrounding a hydrolysis- and fermentation-based process that is capable of utilizing municipal solid…
New polysilicon granule-drying system boosts processing yields and purity
A novel cold-dry process makes possible the utilization of fine form-factor silicon, such as granules…
Lignin recovery process could improve profits for papermakers
Recovery boilers, in which pulp and paper companies burn spent black liquor from the kraft…
A new catalyst enables room-temperature interconversion of CO2 and formic acid
A new catalyst that converts H2 and CO2 into formic acid under mild conditions has…
Business News
Outotec awarded Cristal Global's mega-size ilmenite smelter project in Saudi Arabia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Cristal Global, the second largest titanium-dioxide-pigment producer…
Lanxess builds new plant for high-tech plastics in Belgium
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €75 million in the construction of a new…
Air Liquide to build syngas-production unit in Dormagen
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract to provide Bayer MaterialScience with…
MHI awarded FEED contract for Hydrogen Energy California project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to perform the…
Lanxess investing in its French production site for tire rubbers
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing in its production site for high-performance rubber in…
GAIL selects Axen’s AlphaButol technology
A new ethylene dimerization unit, using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) AlphaButoltechnology will be installed at…
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe invests in environmental protection
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-steel-europe.com) has modernized the continuous annealing line at its…
UOP opens gas-processing-membrane manufacturing center in Malaysia
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has opened a manufacturing and operations…
JGC: Commercialization of new liquid fuel from low-rank coal
JGC Corp.(Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has completed the construction of a demonstration plant in Indonesia for…
‘Drop-in’ biofuels production facility in Louisiana will apply HTW gasification
Sundrop Fuels, Inc. (Longmont, Colo. www.sundropfuels.com) has signed a comprehensive front end engineering and license…
Outotec to deliver technology for copper production to Grupo México
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Grupo México have signed a contract for the delivery…
Lukoil to install the 200th Axens’ Prime-G+ Unit
Lukoil Co. (www.lukoil.com) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide the technology license for…
Lanxess starts up new nitrile butadiene rubber plant in China
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR)…
Georg Fischer acquires Independent Pipe Products
Georg Fischer (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) announced today the acquisition of Independent Pipe Products Inc. (IPP;…
Nation Ford Chemical acquires PANA
Nation Ford Chemical (NFC; Fort Mill, S.C.; www.nationalformchem.com) has announced the acquisition of the PANA…
Shaw to sell Energy & Chemicals Group to Technip
The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to…
Fluor completes polysilicon plant in China for LDK Solar
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has completed construction for LDK Solar’s (www.ldksolar.com) polysilicon plant in…
Ma'aden awards Bechtel prefeasibility copper and zinc smelter study
The Saudi Arabian Ma’aden Aluminium Company has awarded Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) the…
WorleyParsons: EPCM contract for major chemicals projects in Brazil and China
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management…
Outotec's EOS process selected for next BPSL sinter project in India
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been selected by the Indian Bhushan Power & Steel…
Evonik to expand its ThreAmino capacity in Europe
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announces a capacity increase of ThreAmino (L-threonine) at Evonik…
Deutsche Nanoschicht launches new HT superconductors
High-temperature (HT) superconductors can be manufactured much more efficiently and with less environmental impact by…
Jacobs receives contract from Evonik for new chemical plant
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif; www.jacobs.com) says it was awarded a contract from Evonik…
Outotec receives a major filtration technology order from Brazil
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and the Brazilian mining company MMX Mineração e Metálicos S.A.…
Pörner Group hands over formalin plant to Lanxess
The Pörner Group’s (Vienna, Austria; www.poerner.at) facility in Grimma, Germany, handed over a turn-key formalin…
GE and Shenhua open cleaner-coal-technology JV in China
GE (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge.com) announced today the opening of GE Shenhua Gasification Technology Co., a…
Honeywell Green Diesel to be produced from biofeedstocks in U.S. facility
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it has signed…
Air Products signs long-term supply contract with National Helium
Air Products (www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term helium supply contract with National Helium LLC, a…
KBR selected to construct shale-gas processing facility
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a general works contract for the construction of a 200-million…
Fluor wins copper mill optimization work in British Columbia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract from Teck (Vancouver, Canada; www.teck.com)…
Technical & Practical
A method for quantifying pipe vibrations
Failures of piping due to vibration-induced fatigue are a serious problem in the chemical process…
Water-saving strategies for the CPI
Reducing freshwater consumption and wastewater discharge at large petroleum-refining and chemical-production facilities can lower costs,…
Rules of Thumb For Pneumatic Conveying Pipelines
Quite often, during the design of conveying systems, not enough attention is paid to the…
Centrifugal Compressors for CPI Plants
The growth in use of centrifugal compressors in chemical process industries (CPI) applications in recent…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Tubing for peristaltic dosing pumps
Peristaltic pumps work by compressing a tube against a circular pump housing with rollers on…