Flowserve will provide more than 1500 rotary control and automated on/off valves to Klabin‘s Puma Project. The new paper mill will have an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of short and long-fibre pulp

Celanese announced the opening of its state-of-the art polyoxymethylene (POM) production facility in Frankfurt Hoechst Industrial Park, Germany.

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.

Bhaskar Mandal, Executive Vice President, Sector Cluster Lead Industry South Asia, Siemens Ltd and Executive Council Member Automation Industry Association, highlights the importance of automation and its usage especially in a country like India where people still tend to associate automation with loss of jobs. Speaking to PROCESS, he elaborates on how important it is to reach out to people to make them understand that automation contributes towards productivity and reduces life cycle costs in today’s competitive market.

Ammonia is in demand: The boom of biofuels, emerging economies, a growing population and dietary improvements in many regions drive the demand for this raw material. With this perspective and the abundance of cheap shale gas, fertilizer Projects boom in the US a new study says.

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.

BP announced that production has begun from the giant Khazzan gas field, which is operated by BP in partnership with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production. The start of production from Khazzan is BP’s sixth and largest major project start-up so far this year.

After been granted two patents on bio–based isobutanol, American biofuels company Gevo filed a lawsuit against Butamax, a BP and DuPont business, for patent infringements. Its only the latest development in a long row of legal activities of the two companies.

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.

Process Intensification is a relatively new approach to boost a plant’s efficiency: It combines the optimisation of capital, energy, environmental and safety benefits with a radical reduction in plant-size. But the application of such revolutionary techniques has to overcome obstacles. Elaborate design and specialised equipment are needed to deal with unconventional constrains.