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Condenser design simplified
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brunner Mond's number 2 DCB condenser, which cools and condenses product gases at its Norwi…
What's the score on the R&D board? UK not out, but behind
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If the adage about necessity being the mother of invention is true, then its father has to …
Methanol's a syn for Air Products
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With the new government's keenness on clean coal technology, a new process developed by Air…
The bug that hit on Independence Day
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July 1976 was the cue…
BASF devises chiral process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new plant for the production of optically active intermediates is to be built at BASF's L…
Playing safe at Ciba Specialties
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has reduced the frequency and severity of lost-time accidents at i…
Switch to gas puts UK on path to emissions target
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK is on course for its CO2 emission reduction targets, according to figures issued by …
Capacitance system reveals oil:water ratio in crude
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Efficient operation of oil-water separators, widely used by the petroleum industry, depends…
Ball valve for tough media
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed for trouble-free service controlling fibrous suspensions, viscous fluids or dirty …
Membrane filter cuts microbes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Kalsep has developed and launched a range of filtration systems for municipal and industria…
Going through the proper channels
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Marbond reactor is designed to improve the efficiency of exo- and endothermic reactions. Shortl…UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…
A topping answer to the question of valve control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Automated valves are not new, but Alfa Laval has put more thought into the process than mos…
Explosion proof pump
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An explosion proof CR85 pump has been developed by Charles Austen Pumps which is certified …
AspenTech scores PIMS coup with ICI agreement
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI has signed up US 'smart manufacturing' software specialist AspenTech to provide its wor…
Acordis break faces delay
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Akzo Nobel is considering delaying its planned demerger of fibres operation Acordis - the r…
AMEC goes East
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The infrastructure and process and energy subsidiaries of AMEC have launched a local company in Abu…
Valves in brief
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Biopharma Process Systems is the sole UK and Ireland agent for the complete range of NovAse…
