http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:44 EDT Two new coating products for sand proppants used in hydraulic fracturing operations in the oil and gas industry overcome the challenges of traditional phenolic coatings, which can leach environmentally hazardous chemicals. The coatings, developed by Preferred Sands LLC (Radnor, Pa.; www.preferredsands.com)... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/10444.html Wed, 1 May 2013 0:00:00 EDT The surface engineering company MesoCoat, Inc. (Euclid, Ohio; www.mesocoat.com) recently started up a facility for manufacturing clad pipe for the oil-and-gas industry that uses the company’s proprietary fusion-cladding technology to apply corrosion-resistant alloys to carbon-steel pipes. Because the... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/10157.html Fri, 1 Feb 2013 0:00:00 EST Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, Md.; www.nist.gov) have developed a relatively simple, fast and effective method of depositing uniform, ultrathin layers of platinum atoms onto a surface. The technique may lead to a reduction in the amount of... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/10058.html Tue, 1 Jan 2013 0:00:00 EST Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has commercialized a solvent-free coating for electrical insulators. Powersil 570 Plus is said to be the world’s first insulator coating based on a patented silicone-in-water emulsion technology. Its viscosity displays a strong dependence on its shear... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/9628.html Sat, 1 Sep 2012 0:00:00 EDT A novel mesh for oil-water separation with opposite wettability to traditional materials has been developed by a group of researchers from Beijing, China — the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (www.iccas.ac.cn); School of Chemistry... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/8732.html Thu, 1 Dec 2011 0:00:00 EST In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) announced the winners of the 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Winners of the Challenge, which promotes R&D of less hazardous alternatives to existing technologies that reduce or eliminate waste in... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/8278.html Mon, 1 Aug 2011 0:00:00 EDT Last month, PJI Contract Pte Ltd. (Singapore; www.pjicon.com.sg) opened a production facility for the manufacture of titanium dioxide solution — a self-cleaning, nanocoating material developed at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech; www.simtech.a-star.edu.sg), a research institute... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/7934.html Sun, 1 May 2011 0:00:00 EDT Tantaline (Lyngby, Demnark; www.tantaline.com) has developed a process that creates a surface alloy of tantalum on a metal substrate (typically stainless steel). As a result, the surface acquires the corrosion resistance of tantalum — the most corrosion resistant metal commercially available... http://www.che.com/chementator/coatings_surface_technology/4336.html Sat, 1 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EDT