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No downtime for valve testing

Added: 31 May 2002

ICS Triplex has developed a hardware and software package for checking safety and shutdown valves w…

Lindor makes light work of heavy mixing

Added: 31 May 2002

Lindor’s mixers are generally used to mix free-flowing and fragile materials, but the principles be…

Sol-gel market to reach $936 million by 2006

Added: 30 May 2002

According to a soon-to-be-released study, the US market for sol-gel products in 2001 was valued at …

Four hundred and forty four million dollars of gas

Added: 29 May 2002

The Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company has signed a purchase and sale agreement with Burlingto…

Silicon for solar cells

Added: 28 May 2002

Degussa and SolarWorld have formed a joint venture company to produce silicon for solar cells.

New production process for propylene oxide

Added: 23 May 2002

BASF has developed a new process for producing propylene oxide based on hydrogen peroxide.

Swapping in the sea

Added: 22 May 2002

BG Group and BP have signed an agreement involving the exchange of interests in several ass…

New sensor sniffs out gas leaks

Added: 21 May 2002

Successful early tests of a pipeline sensor that locates plastic, ceramic and metallic unde…

Managing alarms to eliminate overload

Added: 15 May 2002

Today's control technology has given plant operators unprecedented insights into the running of the…

Safety standards

Added: 15 May 2002

Although now in force, the new safety standard for safety-related control systems, IEC 61508, is st…

Getting rid of gas

Added: 14 May 2002

Invensys has agreed to sell its CompAir business to Alchemy Partners, the UK based private …

Bayer builds 170 million Euro TDA plant

Added: 14 May 2002

Bayer is expanding its production capacity for toluene diamine by investing around 170 million Euro…

AspenTech to acquire Hyprotech

Added: 13 May 2002

AspenTech has agreed to pay $99 million in cash to acquire process simulation and engineering softw…

Shell invests in green fuel

Added: 9 May 2002

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group has purchased an equity stake in Iogen Energy Corporation, a bi…

Could this kill you?

Added: 7 May 2002

The World Health Organization (WHO) is to determine the extent of the public health risk from acryl…

Spray on display

Added: 2 May 2002

Scientists from Philips have developed a means to fabricate flat panel displays by a simple coating…

Copper foil for PCBs

Added: 1 May 2002

Gould Electronics has unveiled four copper foil products to meet the needs of the printed c…

Sewage is power

Added: 29 Apr 2002

Researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a process that turns wet waste from sewage fa…

Advanced auto resins are recyclable

Added: 29 Apr 2002

Dow Automotive has entered an alliance with Cyclics to develop cyclic butylene terephthalat…

EPRI develops economical NOx reduction process

Added: 29 Apr 2002

A new NOx reduction process developed by EPRI provides coal-fired generating units with a c…