GE introduced a new ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) solution for water treatment in the production of beverages. According to the company, its integrated UF and RO technology is designed to process poor quality and challenging source water with optimal removal of particulates, microorganisms and total dissolved solids (TDS) while reducing the footprint and lowering costs.

Lanxess celebrates the opening of Asia's most modern butyl rubber plant as well as the companies biggest investment project ever. The German speciality chemicals specialists have invested around € 400 millions in the new 100.000 tons/year facility at Jurong Island...

Airgas has signed a long-term agreement to build an air separation unit (ASU) to supply tonnage oxygen, nitrogen and argon via pipeline to Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, a subsidiary of Nucor Corporation, at its steel manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Air Products signed a contract with Barrick Goldstrike that extends its long-standing agreement to operate and maintain Barrick’s oxygen plant in Elko, Nevada.

New technologies to treat water in refineries and petrochemical plants: Giving the right water treatment solution to refineries and petrochemical plants is a big challenge. Nalco has addressed this problem with a holistic cooling water management system.

Evonik is currently working on the development of a new process for producing methyl methacrylate (MMA), an important precursor for Plexiglas and for specialty applications such as contact lenses and adhesives.

Partnering with an adept fluid management company – which has a vast experience from almost all types of process plants and 100 countries of the world – makes sense to encounter the ever-increasing challenge to move aggressive, corrosive, explosive, solid-laden or viscous fluids, under high pressure and extreme temperature condition.

Since many ports were not able to cater with the spurt in demand for coal and iron ore world wide, offshore transshipment became the only answer. Up-to-date transshipment facilities employ more than one crane on the pontoon and a complex cargo handling system consisting of hoppers, conveyors and ship loader. Three examples show how it is done.

Tunable diode laser (TDL) technology has proven to be exceptionally reliable for measuring trace gas components like H2O, H2S, CO2, NH3 and C2H2. TDL absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) is a highresolution technique that enables the measurement of specific gases with precision while avoiding interferences that are common with traditional analyzers.

Engineering specialists Foster Wheller supply a retrofit-selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system for a coal fired power plant in Naantali, Finland. SCRs are used in the exhaust cleaning for therml power genertion.