Flexible aerogels Researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio; www.nasa.gov) have developed…

A process developed by Lehigh Technologies (Lehigh; Tucker, Ga.; www.lehightechnologies.com) for embrittling and milling rubber…

Air Fuel Synthesis Ltd. (AFS; Darlington, U.K.; www.airfuelsynthesis.com) has recently demonstrated a process for producing…

Last month marked the completion of the three-year, €3.6-million E.U.-funded research project, Self-assembled Polymer Membranes…

Kazuaki Ishihara and his group at Nagoya University (Japan; www.ishihara-lab.net) have established a new, environment…

A challenge in the development of polymer-electrolyte membrane fuel cells is the durability and electrocatalytic…

Last month, Lewa GmbH (Leonberg, Germany; www.lewa.de) and Burckhardt Compression AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.burckhardtcompression.com) signed…

A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist; Daejeon, South Korea:…

Professor Kenichoro Itami and his group at Nagoya University (synth.chem. nagoya-u.ac.jp) have synthesized a cage-type…

Several drug delivery systems have been studied involving the encapsulation of molecules in a suitable…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) and Southern Company subsidiary, Southern Generation Technologies, today announced a cooperation agreement…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) the…

Evonik Industries AG’s (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) endeavor to build a new production facility for cosmetics…

The Dow Chemical Company (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) says that it plans to build a…

Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) has been awarded a licensing and engineering contract by Foster…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.…

Praxair China (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has signed a long-term contract with Oxiranchem Yangzhou Co. to supply…

The first solar tower power plant in North Africa will be built in Algeria. The…

Samsung Engineering Co.(Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) was formally awarded the Yanbu petroleum-refinery expansion project from Luberef…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it is reinforcing its leadership on the growing world…

Praxair Peru (www.praxair.com.pe), a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has started up a…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an initial contract by Baikal Mining Co. (as…

CB&I's (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Huating Coal…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International…

Hillenbrand, Inc. (Batesville, Ind.; www.hillenbrand.com) has agreed to acquire the Coperion Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com)…

Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for its…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded by Statoil, an international…

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) , a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, today announced to expand…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) say that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

OCI Construction Group has selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) for an engineering…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says that Indura, its South American joint venture, has…

Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com) announces today an investment of €30 million to build in Europe…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by the Chuquicamata Division…

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded contracts by Occidental Chemical Corp. for the…

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is opening a second production unit for the successful flame retardant…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Shell selected the firm as its engineering,…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (Diemen, The Netherlands), a subsidiary of CSM (www.csmglobal.com),…

Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture (JV) formed by Odebrecht (40%), Technip (40%)…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a urea synthesis and granulation…

This article covers permitting and directly related design issues associated with thermal processes used for…

Inorganic acids play a major role in the chemical process industries (CPI). They are used…

Small chemical reactors offer a number of benefits compared to large reactors, such as better…

Blending and segregation are two opposite and competing processes in solids handling that ideally fit…

Vacuum conditions for many unit operations — including distillation, evaporation, drying, crystallization, filtration and more…