A new enzyme could help to boost profits as well as reduce the need for hazardous chemicals at ethanol plants, enzyme technology specialists Novozyme says. The Danish company states that a typical facility could well be able to increase annual returns by up to US $ 2.5 million.

The impact of CFD in the development of Fuel Tech’s innovative NOx Reduction technology – Fuel Tech is a world leader in providing advanced engineering solutions for Air Pollution Control in power plant utilities. Their NOx reduction technologies are now installed worldwide on over 800 units, providing customers with the most cost effective and environmentally sustainable methods to produce energy and processed materials. The recently patented GSG technology, which has been developed with extensive CFD modeling, is capable of dramatically improving upon typical SCR unit performance by optimizing flue gas velocity profiles, reagent consumptions, and catalyst lifetimes while minimizing system pressure losses

On Monday 9th April speciality fibres manufacturer Kelheim Fibres produced their 4,000,000th ton of viscose fibres.

Statoil, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partnership, signed a letter of intent with Aibel for the construction of the processing platform topside for phase 2 of the project. A letter of intent for field centre modifications was also issued to a joint venture of Aker Solutions and Kværner. Total value is estimated at more than $ 1.4 billion.

Saudi Aramco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with “Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals” (RRPCL), a consortium of Indian oil companies, to jointly develop and build an integrated mega refinery and petrochemicals complex at Ratnagiri, in the state of Maharashtra.

Tanzania wants to enter the fertilizer business: Public Tanzania Petroleum Development plans the construction of a new petrochemical fertilizer complex in the Tanzania South, together with Ferrostaal of Germany.

Oil well monitoring is not only difficult but a tedious task as well. This is primarily because a number of critically operating parameters need to be monitored, such as discharge pressure, RPM, lube oil pressure and lube oil temperature. Here’s how Lime Instruments LLC built a prototype monitoring system using solutions provided by National Instruments.

Leybold presents its innovations at the leading Analytica trade fair that will be held from April 10–13, 2018 in Munich: the compact Sogevac Neo D, the new oil-free Scrollvac backing pump, the whispering Ecodry, and the new Turbo.Control i controller.

Japan is an attractive market for innovative and customized specialty silicas. Evonik takes account of this and now has opened its expanded facilities in Ako, Japan, where the company will produce its Siperant and Carplex lines of specialty silicas.

The carbon black producer Orion will use Haldor Topsoe's Snox technology for the flue gas treatment at their facility in Louisiana. The company has conducted in-depth analyses of the Snox process, including investigative site visits to existing Topsoe plants and testing the concept at one of their own manufacturing facilities since 2014.