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ABB’s board of directors unanimously nominated Peter Voser to succeed Hubertus von Grünberg as chairman.
Multi-faceted approach on energy efficiency methods
The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) is a high-energy-consuming business. After cost for feedstocks, energy is the next largest operating expense for an HPI facility. Since the first oil embargo ..
BASF opens Malaysia polymer dispersions plant
The wholly-owned production plant will benefit from close proximity to raw materials like the acrylic monomer complex at BASF Petronas Chemicals in Kuantan.
Amec Foster Wheeler awarded work on new China coal-to-chemicals project
Amec Foster Wheeler will be part of an integrated project management team responsible for the management of the engineering, commercial, procurement, health and safety, quality and project controls activities.
Indorama buys new Polyplex PET plant in Turkey
Following the acquisition of the 130,000-tpy Artenius Turkpet plant (now renamed Indorama Ventures Adana PET) in the second quarter of 2014, the company will have a combined capacity of 382,000 tons, making IVL the top domestic PET producer in Turkey and the Southeast Europe region.
GTC licenses novel toluene alkylation technology at new China refinery
GTC Technology has signed an agreement with Shandong Sincier Chemical Group to provide its GT-TolAlk-licensed technology for a 280,000 tpy toluene alkylation unit.
Cleantech wins $13M equipment order for China ethylene glycol project
The order covers parts and equipment including washing, distillation, purifying, dehydration, refining and other columns, along with storage containers, heat exchangers and carbonation reactors that will be used in a project to transform glycol calcium carbide furnace tail gas into ethylene glycol.
Maximize LPG recovery from fuel gas using a dividing wall column
Refiners are challenged to recover LPG from mixed fuel gas streams due to the difficulty of separating the lighter components from bulk gas. To maintain profitability, it is essential to direct all of the crude oil components to the optimum disposition. This practice is becoming more significant due to increasing LPG demand in some countries and the supply of lighter crudes in countries such as the US.
Shale gas drives new opportunities for US downstream
This shift to lighter feeds for the SC will reduce the future availability of other petrochemical feedstocks—in particular, propylene.
Optimize amine sweetening with an optical O2 analyzer
After extraction, raw natural gas must go through processing before it is suitable for industrial, commercial and residential usage. The first stage of gas processing is known as “sweetening,..
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