Newsfronts
Renewable Feed, New Technology and C2C Strategies Offer Opportunities for Refiners
After a rough past year, petroleum refineries are seeking profit opportunities through the use of…
Commentary
Immersive technologies advance
One of our cover stories this month highlights how augmented reality (AR) is being used…
In The News
Chementator
New catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene
Conventional propane dehydrogenation (PDH) is an endothermic, equilibrium-limited reaction that requires high temperatures to achieve…
AI-enabled design-and-test platform speeds bioproduct development
TeselaGen Biotechnology (San Francisco, Calif.; www.teselagen.com) has developed a platform technology that integrates software and…
Recovering battery-grade graphite, without using HF
Typically, to achieve the high graphite purity levels demanded by lithium-ion battery (LIB) applications, processors…
Compressing hydrogen electrochemically
Kaji Technology Corp. (Osaka; www.kajitech.com) and Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.toray.com) have jointly…
Chemenator Briefs
Ethylene Toyo Engineering Corp. (Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.com) has been awarded a contract for a project…
New demonstration plant for cellulosic textile fibers
A new demonstration plant will significantly scale up production of sustainable textile fibers made from…
Bespoke battery recycling
A proprietary hydrometallurgical process known as Re-2Ox —originally conceived for the production of high-grade cobalt…
Demonstration for a new process to make isobutene
Last month, OMV AG (Vienna, Austria; www.omv.com) commissioned its ISO C4 demonstration isobutene plant at…
Project aims to establish supply of REEs from waste streams
An effort is underway to establish an environmentally friendly supply of rare-earth elements (REEs) from…
Business News
Business News: May 2021
Plant Watch Chevron and Honeywell start up alkylation unit using new ionic-liquids technology April 13,…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
Enhancing Plant Safety Via Virtual 'On-Site' Visits
New developments in augmented reality can help plant operators fix critical issues while limiting the…
Advanced Analytics for Process Safety
A look at how advanced analytics facilitates and improves process safety efforts within the chemical…
Keeping Valves Corrosion-Free
In all phases of a valve’s lifecycle — from fabrication to decommissioning and storage —…
Specifying Severe-Service Valves for Urea Applications
To withstand the harsh conditions and potential safety risks encountered in urea agricultural applications and…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts At Your Fingertips: Evaporator Equipment Types
Industrial evaporator heat-transfer surfaces are either tubular or flat plates, packaged into a variety of…
Technology Profile
Technology Profile: Producing Polylactic Acid from Corn
Polylactic acid (PLA, polylactide; Figure 1) is a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester that is derived from…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Focus on Maintenance Tools
Improve schedule compliance and first-time fix rate Last December, this company added MyAssets toolset to…
New Products
New calibration technology extends gas-detector operation
The new TruCal calibration technology, included with this company’s Ultima X5000 and General Monitors S5000…
Reusable gas samplers for VOC analysis
The new POD (pocket diffuser) sampler (photo) is a passive sampler that combines the benefits…
Application-specific liquid-mixing systems
This company’s B Series of liquid mixing systems (photo) are designed for blending, solids suspension,…
Improve dosing accuracy and safety for powder weighing
The XPR automatic balance (photo) applies active machine learning to powder weighing, delivering accuracy, speed…
A mobile conveying system for explosive environments
The ATEX-certified Inert Explosion-proof (INEX) pneumatic vacuum-conveying system (photo) features an optional mobility package. Setting…
Use these lined static mixers with aggressive chemicals
This company has launched a Kynar-lined static mixer (photo) to enable homogenization and dispersion of…
Compressed-air systems in a secure, weatherproof enclosure
KASE air-system enclosures (photo) is available in several standard configurations, including two 100-hp, one 250-hp,…
Monitor bolt loads, even at high temperatures
The new High Temp Maxbolt (photo) is able to operate in temperatures up to 650°F…
Temperature control under a pressure blanket
This company has expanded its product range for demanding temperature-control tasks with two devices: the…
This pusher centrifuge needs only one motor
While traditional centrifuges have separate pusher and drive motors, the ecoOne pusher centrifuge (photo) has…
A fast EtherCAT RFID interface for decentralized automation
The TBEC series has been added to this company’s range of RFID solutions for fast…
Stainless-steel butterfly valves help streamline material flow
This company’s range of butterfly valves (photo) are offered with a highly polished 316 stainless-steel…
New additions to IIoT software
A new packaging of Seeq features and packages was launched in March that features and…
Gauging temperature and vibrations improve milling
This company’s Insights platform is connected to the new temperature and vibration management (TVM) system…
Smart monitoring and management of control valves
The web-based Sam Valve Management system (photo) gives users an overview of all connected control…
New Raman spectrometers provide IIoT connectivity
The Kaiser Raman embedded analyzer (photo) collects in-situ process measurements, enabling realtime process monitoring, optimization…
A smart monitoring technology for hydrocyclones
CycloneSense (photo) is a smart measurement system that provides direct and continuous online monitoring of…
New flange monoblock with shutoff valve
The compact design of this new monoblock with flange connection (photo) integrates a shutoff valve…
Illuminate critical processes with these explosion-proof LED lights
The new explosion-proof Lumiglas Model USL08LED-EX (photo) is said to be the brightest sight-glass light…
This IBC has a compact design for streamlined shipping
The new Ecobulk MX 560 intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo) has a lower height than…
Digitizing the industrial-gases supply chain
The Transcend IoT Platform streamlines industrial-gas supply-chain data by integrating data from multiple remote-monitored tanks,…
Remove toxic fumes and gases economically and effectively
The Fume Scrubber product line (photo) offers a reliable way to remove and neutralize acid…