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March 1, 2011
A scaled up microreactor for mass production
M Technique Co. (M Tech; Osaka, Japan; www.m-technique.co.jp) has commercialized the Ulrea SS-300, a scaled up version of the Ulrea SS-11 — a forced thin-film microreactor. With a production capacity nearly ten times higher than its predecessor, the Ulrea SS-300 is suitable for mass production of organic, inorganic and biochemicals as well as for producing micro- and nanoparticles and crystals. The...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/A-scaled-up-microreactor-for-mass-production_6422.html
March 1, 2011
Vegetable-oil-based chemicals plant soon to be fully operational
In spring of this year, Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM; Decatur, Ill.; www.adm.com) plans full operation of a chemical plant based on soybean and canola oils as renewable feedstock. Products of the plant will include refined glycerin, propylene glycol and ethylene glycol. Crude vegetable-derived oils are obtained through a process in which soybeans and canola seeds are crushed, dehulled and conditioned, and...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/Vegetable-oil-based-chemicals-plant-soon-to-be-fully-operational_6423.html
March 1, 2011
Bio-Based Chemicals Positioned To Grow
The production of biotechnology-based chemicals, while still a niche operation in terms of global chemical production, is demonstrating double-digit growth, says a recent SRI Consulting report*. Enabled by rapid advances in industrial biotechnology and significant increases in the price of crude oil over recent years, the number of biotechnology-based chemicals within the sights of commercial producers is...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/Bio-Based-Chemicals-Positioned-To-Grow_6450.html
January 1, 2011
Fermentation Process Development
The range of synthetic biology tools available for manipulating microbial metabolic pathways has expanded significantly in the past decade, opening new routes to chemical products. But the development challenges associated with strain development, as well as scaling up effective fermentation processes remain. Companies manufacturing biofuels, bio-based chemical intermediates, natural products and...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/Fermentation-Process-Development_6284.html
November 1, 2010
Carbon nanotube ‘paper’ could reduce Pt content in fuel cells
One of the biggest factors hindering widespread adoption of polymer exchange membrane fuel-cells (PEMFCs) is the high price of the platinum metal needed to catalyze the reduction-oxidation chemistry in the fuel cell. In a step toward reducing platinum content, a Florida State University (FSU; Tallahassee, Fla.; www.fsu.edu) researcher has demonstrated...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/Carbon-nanotube-paper-could-reduce-Pt-content-in-fuel-cells_6100.html
November 1, 2010
2010 CE Personal Achievement Award
Much attention over the past two years has been focused on alternative energy and green chemistry. So it is particularly appropriate that Chemical Engineering’s (CE) 2010 Personal Achievement Award recognizes two individuals with expertise in those fields. Last month, at an award ceremony held at the ChemInnovations Conference and Exhibition in Houston, Tom McGowan, a longtime consultant in biomass...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/2010-CE-Personal-Achievement-Award_6107.html
July 1, 2010
Bio-Based Chemicals Get Real
With bio-based chemical production growing, and several newer companies ready to enter commercial production, indications are that biologically derived chemicals will be an increasing force in the petrochemicals market. But bio-based chemical producers must confront the bottom-line requirements of product performance and cost, rather than riding their products’ environmental benefits. Susan Sun...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/Bio-Based-Chemicals-Get-Real_5802.html
June 11, 2010
Patents filed in carbon dioxide-to-gasoline technology
Carbon Sciences Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.; www.carbonsciences.com) has filed a patent application surrounding its process for converting carbon dioxide and methane into...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/Patents-filed-in-carbon-dioxide-to-gasoline-technology_5763.html
May 3, 2010
DSM Biologics plans biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia
DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products (Parsippany, N.J.; www.dsmpharmaceuticalproducts.com) has signed a preliminary agreement to enter a partnership with the Australian Governments (Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth of...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/DSM-Biologics-plans-biopharmaceutical-manufacturing-in-Australia_5655.html
January 13, 2010
UOP to receive DoE award for cellulose-to-fuel plant
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) will receive a US$25 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to construct a demonstration plant for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels. Scheduled to begin operations in 2014, the unit will be built at the Tesoro Corp. (San Antonio, Texas; www.tsocorp.com) refinery in Kapolei, Hawaii. The demonstration...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/UOP-to-receive-DoE-award-for-cellulose-to-fuel-plant_5415.html
January 12, 2010
Novozymes receives federal tax credit for enzyme facility
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) has been awarded an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit worth US$28.4 million from the U.S. federal government to further construction of a new...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/Novozymes-receives-federal-tax-credit-for-enzyme-facility_5410.html
January 1, 2010
Boosting Catalyst Productivity
For the better part of a century, chemical process industries (CPI) have depended on catalysts to make their processes viable. Current efforts toward process efficiency and environmental innocuousness have placed more demands on catalysts to produce more with less. Industrial catalyst manufacturers are partners in the effort; they are pursuing several different pathways to maximize their products’...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/Boosting-Catalyst-Productivity_5376.html
December 4, 2009
This membrane bioreactor is a complete packaged system
The Puron Plus membrane bioreactor (MBR) system is a skid-mounted packaged plant that provides customers with a full scope of supply from prescreening and biological treatment through to the final membrane...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/This-membrane-bioreactor-is-a-complete-packaged-system_5348.html
December 1, 2009
40th Kirkpatrick Award Announced
Last month at the Chem Show, Chemical Engineering (CE) had the pleasure of honoring this year’s finalists and the winner of the 2009 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award, a biennial prize that the magazine has bestowed continuously since the early 1930s (for more, see CE, January 2009, p.19) The award recognizes the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized anywhere...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/40th-Kirkpatrick-Award-Announced_5303.html
December 1, 2009
Millichannel Reactors: A Practical Middle Ground for Production
The desire to move from batch to continuous processes for the production of high-value organic molecules has become more widespread in recent years as evidenced by the increasing number of related studies published in the literature. The benefits of continuous flow include increased product yield, increased utility and energy utilization, improved safety and greater automation. A quest to improve the...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/Millichannel-Reactors-A-Practical-Middle-Ground-for-Production_5316.html
September 1, 2009
CSTR Design for Reversible Reactions
Multiple CSTRs (continuous stirred-tank reactors) are advantageous in situations where the reaction is slow; two immiscible liquids are present and require higher agitation rates; or viscous liquids are present that require high agitation rates. Unlike in plugflow reactors, agitation is easily available in CSTRs. In this article, batch and plugflow reactors are analyzed and compared to multiple CSTRs...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/CSTR-Design-for-Reversible-Reactions_5052.html
September 1, 2009
CPI Energized by Battery Funding
Efforts toward large-scale production of lithium-ion (Li-ion)-based car batteries got a big boost in early August, when the Obama Administration announced $2.4 billion in U.S. government investment aimed, in part, at dramatically ramping up the supply chain for advanced batteries for the auto industry. A majority of this funding is funneling directly into the chemical process industries (CPI), which are...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/electrochemistry/CPI-Energized-by-Battery-Funding_5053.html
August 14, 2009
Univation to build catalyst manufacturing facility in China
Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston, Tex.; www.univation.com) has begun construction of a new polyethylene (PE) catalyst-manufacturing facility in China with a scheduled 2011 startup. The facility will be located in Zhangjiagang within the Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China.  The new facility, which will have expansion...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/Univation-to-build-catalyst-manufacturing-facility-in-China_4997.html
August 1, 2009
Scaleup for a downer FCC process
In October, Nippon Oil Corp. (Tokyo, Japan;www.eneos.co.jp) will start constructing a high-severity fluidized-catalytic cracking (HS-FCC) unit, the first in the world that can produce large amounts of propylene from heavy fuel oils. The unit, located at Mizushima Refinery (Kurashiki-City), will start up in early 2011. The 3,000 bbl/d facility is 100 times larger than the 30 bbl/d HS-FCC demonstration unit that...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/Scaleup-for-a-downer-FCC-process_4960.html
August 1, 2009
Cellulose-to-aromatics process simplifies BTX production
A single-step method to convert cellulosic biomass into aromatic compounds offers a simpler and more environmentally friendly route to the petrochemical feedstocks benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX), according to a Massachusetts bioenergy startup company seeking to scale up the technique. Based on a catalytic fast pyrolysis process developed by University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.; www.umass.edu)...
http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/Cellulose-to-aromatics-process-simplifies-BTX-production_4963.html
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