Effective disaster management can go a long way in mitigating the damage caused by natural catastrophes, thereby increasing plant safety.

In this era of energy efficiency, there is huge scope for saving energy through compressed air systems. New as well as existing systems can give better results with the help of few energy conserving steps. Here are some ways to save energy and ultimately cost, through these systems.

Small scale cell culture reactors for laboratory application often require the same cleaning time, autoclaving effort and re-installation hassle as their bigger industrial counterparts do. Furthermore the repeated use of the same reactor can easily increase the risk of cross-contamination. Sartorius now tries to meet the needs of laboratory workers with their new single-use bioreactor UniVessel SU.

South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) starts a new Pharmaceutical Process Research Centre with a little help from GEA Pharma Systems: The new centre will provide academic and commercial research facilities for under graduate, post graduate, post doctorate students and the wider pharmaceutical industry in South Korea.

Grupa Azoty Puławy signed a contract with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions for the grant of a licence for a nitric acid production technology, including the delivery of process documentation and key equipment, and for the supervision over plant installation and start-up.

To simplify the process of choosing the correct gas flow meter for a particular application, Solartron ISA has rebranded its Dualstream family of wet gas flow meters.

According to a new study, reusing solvents instead of incinerating them would be a more practical approach for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Researchers have found that recycling reduces the amount of carbon emissions and consumes less energy than what would be required to make those chemicals from scratch. Maximum solvent recovery, being the need of the hour to promote solvent reuse, spiral heat exchangers can play a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Half of the global industrial energy consumption is wasted due to the inefficient and complicated recovery of low-grade energy.

Syngas specialist GTL.F1, a joint venture of Statoil (Norway), PetroSA (South Africa) and Lurgi (Germany) have concluded technology developement for Fischer-Tropsch process technology and recently opened the licensing phase. GTL.F1 develops and licenses proprietary technologies for GTL investments. Norwegian venture partner Statoil will now withdraw from company ownership.

Mannheim-based Rhein Chemie, a wholly owned subsidiary of specialty chemicals company Lanxess and partner of the rubber, lubricant and plastics industry, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.