Chemical & Process Magic, jiggery pokery, whatever you want to call it, Chemical engineers can perform some truly amazing things. Keep up to speed on the latest news in this exciting area of engineering.
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Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited's desire to build a cost effective, well-integrated, intermediate and sterile API facility, with state-of–the-art building/technical concepts and equipment has resulted in their Aurangabad carbapenem facility winning the 2009 Facility of the year award for Regional Excellence.
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Thursday 27 August, 2009 07:04 PM |
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Packed into a hall in Montreal’s Palais des congrès, home to the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, ten university teams from across the globe put the final touches to a whole host of weird and wonderfully shaped cars. The object of the competition, a long running event organised by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, is to design and build a shoebox-sized car powered by a controlled chemical reaction. With a varying load of between 0 to 500ml of water and no more than two minutes on the clock, the car must run and come to a stop at a distance of between 50 to 100 feet without using mechanical breaks.
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Wednesday 26 August, 2009 04:48 PM |
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Chief Executive Joe Pease said Xstrata Technology (XT) is providing a technology licence, engineering services and commissioning services for the Tuticorin copper smelter expansion project. This is third time Sterlite has chosen the ISASMELT technology for Tuticorin. The new furnace will complement an existing ISASMELT and will have capacity to treat over 1.5 million tonnes a year of concentrate to produce 400,000 tonnes per year of copper anodes. |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 06:03 PM |
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Foster Wheeler has announced that the world's largest circulating fluidised-bed (CFB) steam generator has started operating at the Lagisza power plant, owned by Poludniowy Koncern Energetyczny (PKE).
Foster Wheeler's Global Power Group provided the turnkey supply of the boiler island, including engineering and design, erection, civil work, start-up and commissioning. |
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Thursday 9 July, 2009 01:34 PM |
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Linc Energy Limited announces that it has made further significant progress in demonstrating the combination of its Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Gas to Liquids (GTL) technologies. |
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Monday 29 June, 2009 03:29 PM |
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Trade Arabia reported that German based Uhde has won a QAR 2 billion EPC contract from Qatar Petrochemical Company for a new low density polyethylene plant in Mesaieed Industrial City. The new plant will be integrated into the polyethylene production area inside the QAPCO petrochemical complex in Mesaieed.
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Friday 5 June, 2009 03:54 PM |
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Rentech Inc . recently unveiled plans to build a plant in Rialto, Calif., for the production of synthetic fuels such as renewable diesel and electric power from waste biomass feedstocks.
Rentech CEO and President Hunt Ramsbottom gave an overview of the project during a conference call May 12, and provided details of what has been accomplished to date as well as a timeline of progress for the future. |
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Thursday 14 May, 2009 10:15 PM |
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The chemical process industry (CPI) is involved in the production of a wide variety of products that improve the quality of our lives and generate income for companies and their stockholders. In general, chemical processes are complex, and chemical engineers in industry encounter a variety of chemical process flow diagrams.
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Thursday 26 March, 2009 04:29 PM |
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Restoring teeth to not only offer a beautiful smile but also a highly resistant one is the ultimate goal of the project undertaken by members of the Biomechanics and Ergonomy research group at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castelló, Spain. To this end, they have concluded that the ideal material for designing posts, which serve to bond the restored piece to the root, is glass fibre. Initially, metallic posts were considered to be more resistant but less aesthetic, according to Ximo Sancho, a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction at the UJI. |
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Wednesday 25 March, 2009 03:18 PM |
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Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.
Burning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Rather than contribute to global climate change, producers could convert carbon dioxide to a wide variety of hydrocarbons, but this makes sense to do only when using solar energy. |
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Sunday 8 March, 2009 01:17 PM |
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Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, said today that the company's method of recycling CO2 into fuel provides the most direct path and a substantial cost advantage over processes that produce renewable fuels from terrestrial crops. |
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 04:47 PM |
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Teakle Composites is barely a year old and it’s already breaking the boundaries of modern mining, using MSC ’s AFEA software to develop cutting edge fibre composite components
At just over a year old innovator Teakle Composites is a newcomer to the fibre composite product development market, yet is already making its mark on the mining industry. The company today announced it is utilising advanced simulation and analysis software in the development of a new generation of mining components, designed to offer far greater durability and flexibility than steel counterparts. The range of fibre glass products is being developed virtually and tested thoroughly in MSC Software’s AFEA package, before being fabricated for physical testing. |
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 10:17 AM |
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A chance encounter with a Humboldt squid on a fishing trip left quite an impression on James Weaver, a research associate at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering. In fact, the lasting impression also provided the impetus for further research conducted by an interdisciplinary team from several institutions and headed by Professor Henrik Birkedal of the Department of Chemistry and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor David Kisailus of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering. |
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Wednesday 4 February, 2009 03:02 PM |
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Tar sands are a mixture of hydrocarbon-rich bitumen mixed in sandstone layers. When the hydrocarbons are separated, the bitumen released is a heavy, black and sticky semi-liquid of high viscosity. Today, SRI Consulting published its new Heavy Oil from Tar Sands report, a technical and economic analysis of production processes, capital and operating cost estimates, important issues that impact the industry, and key drivers for success and failure.
Author and Senior Consultant Anthony Pavone commented, "With rational engineering and prudent business decision making, grass roots tar sands projects should be economically viable at benchmark crude oil prices below US$60 a barrel." |
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Friday 19 December, 2008 01:08 AM |
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Dow Chemicals International Pvt. Ltd ., the Indian arm of the $54 billion U.S.-headquartered multinational company, is betting big on making the engineering support centre in Chennai into a design hub for Dow across the globe. Indicating this in an interaction with The Hindu here on Wednesday, Ramesh Ramachandran, President and CEO, said the headcount at the Chennai centre would go up to 1,000 by 2010 from around 200 now. |
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Thursday 18 December, 2008 09:02 AM |
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Masdar, an Abu Dhabi government initiative, owned by Mubadala Development Company, announced today the selection of Houston, Texas-based Mustang Engineering, a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for Masdar’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the United Arab Emirates. |
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Monday 1 December, 2008 01:08 PM |
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Air Products , a global leader in the production of industrial gases, is using its unique understanding of technical options for capturing greenhouse gases to collaborate with the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) on a study focused on an advanced carbon dioxide capture technology for use with gasification. The advanced carbon capture technology, developed by Air Products, could reduce the cost of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture by up to 25 percent compared to current technologies. The study titled “Advanced Hydrogen and CO2 Capture Technology for Sour Syngas” is expected to be completed by October 2010. |
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Wednesday 19 November, 2008 12:17 AM |
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SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading, global supplier of engineering thermoplastics with a 75-year history of breakthrough solutions that solve its customers’ most pressing challenges. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar company with operations in more than 25 countries and over 10,500 employees worldwide. The company continues to lead the plastics industry with customer collaboration and continued investments in new polymer technologies, global application development, process technologies, and environmentally responsible solutions that serve diverse markets such as automotive, electronics, building & construction, transportation, and healthcare. The company’s extensive product portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. |
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Monday 17 November, 2008 04:04 PM |
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Two major industry groups have been working together on a project to upgrade two cryogenic storage tanks in Ireland.
Leeds based Energy Services and Solutions (UK) (ESS), a division of the JFD Group of Companies has been working on the project for BOC, in Cork, to upgrade the integrity of two 300 ton capacity cryogenic storage tanks containing liquid nitrogen.
The tanks, primarily in use for bulk nitrogen supplies to hospitals and the pharmaceutical and electronics industries, are the property of BOC (part of the Linde Group), the largest supplier of gases and related products and services in the Republic of Ireland. |
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Wednesday 12 November, 2008 09:14 PM |
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Foster Wheeler Ltd announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty) Limited, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Sasol Chemical Industries Limited for the Sasolburg Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project in South Africa. The FEED is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2009. |
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Wednesday 5 November, 2008 08:53 AM |
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Carbon Sciences Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, today announced that it anticipates the completion of a prototype that will demonstrate its innovative biocatalytic CO2 to fuel process by Q1 2009.
Other renewable fuel technologies such as those based on corn, sugarcane or palm seed require large amounts of energy and time to grow, process, and ferment the crops into fuel equivalents. Likewise, conventional chemical engineering approaches to creating fuel require immense energy due to high pressure and high temperature operating conditions, such as Fischer Tropsch processes. |
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Tuesday 4 November, 2008 12:57 AM |
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