U.S.

PL Propylene to build large propane-dehydrogenation plant    
PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics company (Houston, Tex.; www.petrologistics.com), announced today the commencement of a project to construct a 1.2 billion lb/yr propane-dehydrogenation plant to produce propylene. The facility will be located in the vicinity...

Sinclair to expand refinery in Tulsa with GEABloc
Only one month after the acquisition of GEA ViEX Inc. Canada (www.geagroup.com), the company has received a significant order for GEABloc custom-designed fully welded heat...

BASF sells its Shreveport site
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana and the related contract manufacturing business for finished pharmaceuticals to Dr...

World’s largest landfill gas to biogas plant  
 As part of a Joint Venture, the technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Waste Management Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.wm.com) will build the world’s biggest plant for the conversion of landfill gas into...

POSCO Power orders 25.6 MW of fuel-cell power
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.fuelcellenergy.com) has announced that POSCO Power (www.poscopower.co.kr), South Korea’s leading independent power producer, has ordered 25.6 MW of FuelCell Energy power plants and fuel cell modules. The order...

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CANADA

GEA takes over Canadian company ViEX  
GEA PHE Systems, Inc. (York, Pa.; www.geaphena.com) a leading international supplier of plate heat exchangers (PHE), has acquired the assets of Canadian PHE specialist ViEX, based in Newmarket near Toronto. Hence, GEA continues their successful growth path...

Chementator: Algae-based biodiesel    
Valencent Products, Inc. (El Paso, Tex.; edlinks.che.com/7369-544) and Global Green Solutions, Inc. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; edlinks.che.com/7369-545) are in the final stages of commercializing their patented Vertigro process, which includes the growing and...

Photons to electrons, & vice versa
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Technical innovations in light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photovoltaics have consistently reflected the similarities between the two technologies. In...

Aker Kvaerner lands contract for copper project in Peru
Peru Copper Syndicate has awarded Aker Kvaerner Metals, Inc. (Tuscon, Ariz.; www.akerkvaerner.com) a $11.5-million contract for the provision of technical services for basic engineering and additional...

Chementator: A Rapid-Cycle PSA System Economically Recovers H₂    
A pressure-swing-adsorption (PSA) system for hydrogen purification that operates at "tens of cycles per minute," versus one cycle every 4 – 10 min for conventional PSA, will have its first commercial-scale demonstration at an ExxonMobil...

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OTHER

DSM plans its largest investment for Dyneema  
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has announced plans for a substantial capital expenditure program, expected to involve up to $450 million, to increase production capacity in its Dyneema business. DSM Dyneema’s sales have grown by more...

Editor’s Page: Go green, but be realistic  
As spring approaches, the woods around Frankfurt are beginning to get green again. Taking in this annual transformation, it seems like a good time to reflect on how the meaning of the word "green" has changed — through misuse or at least, in...

Chementator: Halogenated activated carbon reduces mercury emissions from a coal-fired plant  
In its first full-scale test on a coal-fired power plant, halogenated activated carbon (AC) made by ADA-ES, Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; edlinks.che.com/7371-537) has reduced mercury emissions by more than 90%. The significance of the results...

You & Your Job: Employee Development: Getting the Information You Need Through a 360° Feedback Report  
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   A 360° feedback report is a way for employees to learn how they are perceived by direct reports, colleagues, managers, customers, and...

Chementator: An ammonia-based CO₂-capture process moves several steps closer to commercialization  
Last month, the first pilot project that used chilled ammonia to capture carbon dioxide from the fluegas (FG) of a coal-fired power plant started operating at the 1,210-MW We Energies’ Pleasant Prairie power plant in Wisconsin. Alstom (Windsor, Conn....

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