http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 6:46:48 EDT 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/5415.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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/5410.html Tue, 12 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST Current efforts toward process efficiency and environmental innocuousness have placed more demands on catalysts to produce more with less. Industrial catalyst manufacturers are pursuing several pathways to maximize their products ability to boost output for those who use them. Several recent examples show how employing alternate catalyst material or new manufacturing methodology has helped users realize manufacturing advantages.... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/5376.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/biochemistry/5348.html Fri, 4 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST Last month at the Chem Show, Chemical Engineering 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.  The award recognizes the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world during 2007 or 2008.... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/5303.html Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST 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 overall production economics for smaller organic molecules and many inorganic chemicals forced this change on the bulk chemicals industry many decades ago. But strong interest has not yet translated into the widespread use of continuous processes for specialty chemicals, fine chemicals and pharmaceutical manufacturing. This article proposes that the use of small-scale reactions can provide the missing link that brings continuous operation within practical reach.... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/5316.html Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/5052.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/electrochemistry/5053.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/catalysis/4997.html Fri, 14 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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... http://www.che.com/processing_and_handling/reaction_engineering/4960.html Sat, 1 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EDT