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February 1, 2009
A new bioplastic Up to now, the main plastic produced from renewable resources has been polylactic acid (PLA), which is derived from corn starch. However, because PLA does not have the same level of performance as petroleum-derived plastics, PLA has not been actively adopted by certain industries, according to Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp/english). The company plans to change this situation...
http://www.che.com/news/February-Chementator-Briefs_4524.html
January 1, 2009
With the challenging global marketplace and these unstable financial times, the chemical process Industries (CPI) must do everything possible to economically maintain production while providing innovative and high quality products for their customers. To achieve both these goals, predictive and preventive maintenance programs are possibly the most important gear in any processors toolbox. Not only will...
http://www.che.com/news/PM-and-PDM-Crucial-Gear-in-the-CPI-Toolbox_4430.html
January 1, 2009
As an energy resource, global coal reserves represent 2,000 billion barrels of oil equivalent. In 2007, global oil reserves were about 1,300 billion barrels of oil. World wide, oil demand will grow 40 to 50% by 2030. But coal offers an opportunity to diversify worldwide liquid-fuel supplies and coal utilization to produce fuels that can extend the lifetime of world oil reserves. This is a strategic...
http://www.che.com/news/A-primer-on-coal-to-liquids_4431.html
January 1, 2009
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) and SYN Energy Technology Co. (Dalian, China; www.syn.ac.cn) have signed a global, cooperative market agreement to license a methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process. The technology, called DMTO, was developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Dalian, China), which has a controlling interest in...
http://www.che.com/news/Chementator-Commercialization-is-set-for-a-methanol-to-olefins-technology_4454.html
January 1, 2009
Aiming at bringing down the barriers to the commercial deployment of post-combustion capture (PCC) of CO2, an Australian team from CSIRO Energy Technology (Newcastle, New South Wales; www.csiro.au), CSIRO Energy Technology (Clayton South, Victoria), and several other research organizations has developed an integrated PCC R&D and pilot plant program. The program includes four pilot plants: The Latrobe...
http://www.che.com/news/Chementator-More-efforts-to-capture-CO2-from-power-plants_4455.html
January 1, 2009
When completed in early 2010, Shell Chemicals’ B.V. (The Hague, Netherlands; www.shell.com) 750,000-m.t./yr facility at the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore will be the world’s largest plant to produce mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) using Shell’s Omega process. This plant marks the fifth license of the Omega technology since the first commercial application came on stream...
http://www.che.com/news/Chementator-Continued-commercial-success-for-a-new-MEG-process_4459.html
January 1, 2009
A new method for vaporizing liquefied natural gas (LNG) that is more environmentally friendly than the traditional submerged combustion vaporization (SCV) process is being offered by Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com). In an SCV process, LNG is passed through stainless steel tubes in a water bath that is warmed by sparging combustion gases from a submerged, gas-fired burner. The...
http://www.che.com/news/Chementator-This-LNG-vaporization-process-will-reduce-air-emissions_4462.html
January 1, 2009
Bioethanol Last month, an energy-saving plant for producing bioethanol started up in Norrköping, Sweden, for Lantmännen Agroetanol AB. When operating at full capacity, the plant will produce 470,000 L/d of bioethanol from grain (mostly wheat), making it the largest bioethanol facility in Northern Europe. The plant is based on the Multipressure system of Vogelbusch GmbH (Vienna, Austria...
http://www.che.com/news/January-Chementator-Briefs_4463.html
December 1, 2008
With last month’s proclamation by President-elect Barack Obama that his administration would move to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, it appears that the U.S. may finally get in step with the 182 countries that have signed the Kyoto Protocol. Obama pledged to establish a cap-and-trade system with the goals of lowering emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, then reducing them an additional 80% by 2050...
http://www.che.com/news/Newsfront-Capturing-CO2_4363.html
December 1, 2008
When it comes to dust collection in the chemical process industries (CPI), there exists a wide variety of needs. For example, folks in dyes and pigments have a different set of dust collection challenges than those in the pharmaceutical industry, who have differing requirements from processors working with paints and varnishes. However, any and all chemical processors can boost process efficiency by...
http://www.che.com/news/Newsfront-Dust-collection-Clean-up-your-act_4364.html
December 1, 2008
The winners are Brian W. S. Kolthammer, Research Fellow at The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Shyam Lakshmanan, group general manager at See Sen Chemical Bhd & Malay-Sino Chemical Industries Sdn Bhd (Perak, Malaysia; www.taikogroup.net). Their careers are summarized here. For more on the award and its history, click here. Brian W. S. Kolthammer With 33 U.S. patents and numerous...
http://www.che.com/news/Newsfront-CEs-2008-Personal-Achievement-Award_4366.html
December 1, 2008
RTI International (Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.rti.org), in partnership with Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) and the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.), has developed a modular technology package that removes numerous contaminants — including sulfur, NH3, HCN, HCl and heavy metals — from coal- and petcoke-derived syngas at elevated temperatures (400–1,000°F)...
http://www.che.com/news/Cleaning-syngas-at-high-temperatures_4390.html
December 1, 2008
While monoethanolamine (MEA) is the traditional solvent for scrubbing CO2 from fluegas, more effective methods, including solid absorbents, are being developed (see CE, December 2008, pp. 16–20). Sodium carbonate, for example, is the sorbent in a process being developed, with DOE support, by Research Triangle Institute (RTI, Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.rti.org). Desulfurized fluegas from a wet...
http://www.che.com/news/Chementator-Two-solid-ways-to-remove-CO2-from-fluegas-one-based-on-Na2CO3-_4392.html
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