All Chemicals


Roquettte Landia airjet

Roquette costs set to dive

Added: 10 Jul 2012

Keokuk, Iowa – Located in Keokuk on the Iowa/Illinois border, the heart of corn production country,…

Lab

UK chemical engineers report positive pay trends

Added: 4 Jul 2012

London – UK chemical engineers have experienced positive pay trends with salaries continuing to ris…

BASF Antwerp Cracker

BASF to build butadiene plant in Antwerp

Added: 4 Jul 2012

Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Ant…

Argex TiO2 grahpic

Argex claims TiO2 process 'breakthrough'

Added: 4 Jul 2012

Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company Argex Mining Inc. claims to have made a breakthrough with its p…

KSB at Solvay

Reducing pumps energy use at chemicals facility

Added: 2 Jul 2012

London – ?Solvay Fluor GmbH has reduced power consumption by a quarter at a modernised re-cooling s…

Samsung TAKREER UAE

Samsung for $2,5bn carbon/coker unit in UAE

Added: 25 Jun 2012

Seoul, Korea - Samsung Engineering has received a letter of award for a carbon black and delayed co…

Solar thermal

Fraunhofer network expands

Added: 25 Jun 2012

London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…

tank cleaning flow

Chemical tank cleaning: Small things make a big difference

Added: 24 Jun 2012

Technical article by Ivan Zytynski, marketing director of BETE Ltd:

The cleaning of tanks and vessel…

SABIC CAMERA Teesside

Jacobs nets contract for Saudi polyetheylene trains

Added: 24 Jun 2012

London – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and constructio…

Dounreay coast

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed

Added: 19 Jun 2012

One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed

FMF

Producing methanol using CO2 and hydrogen

Added: 14 Jun 2012

A research team at the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) has developed a new system for prod…

Legionelle scare

HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…

Shell Pearl GTL

Shell's 'uneasy' approach to process safety

Added: 12 Jun 2012

With 15 years’ experience in managing the operation of top-tier COMAH sites, Dave Topliffe, manufac…

Water

Chemical engineers discover new way to split water

Added: 11 Jun 2012

Nontoxic, noncorrosive method provides possible new route to hydrogen-gas production

Haller Dow EMEA

New leader for Dow in Europe

Added: 11 Jun 2012

Midland, Michigan - Heinz Haller, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Dow, has…

LyondellBasell energy-saving technology wins backing

Added: 11 Jun 2012

Houston, Texas - LyondellBasell has gained a $4.5-million grant from the US department of energy (D…

Titanium dioxide nanocrystal

Reducing energy barriers to chemical reactions

Added: 8 Jun 2012

A new twist on an old chemical process has been shown to boost energy efficiency

Image

Funding drives large-scale production of nanoparticles

Added: 7 Jun 2012

A Nottingham University spin-out is hoping to improve industrial nanoparticle production

Liquid X-Ray

World’s first X-ray machine capable of studying liquid surfaces

Added: 7 Jun 2012

A new liquid X-ray machine could significantly improve the performance catalysts

Milk production factory

Biosensor detects one-billionth of a gram in minutes

Added: 1 Jun 2012

A new class of biosensor can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in 40 mi…