Evonik Industries has developed a new hollow-fiber membrane for the separation of nitrogen from air.

The system leak-tightness is a basic prerequisite for a safe reaction in chemical synthesis under pressure. The design is as critical as the selection of suitable components in this context.

Most industrial processes consume lots of water – a scarce resource. They also generate waste that needs to be treated in order to meet tough requirements, keep the license to operate and perhaps even extend capacity.

From Sensor-Technik Wiedemann (STW) comes the new, intelligent VSX family of HMI displays for mobile applications. Featuring the support for safety-orientated use cases in accordance with SIL2, a range of different sizes and a sophisticated toolchain for graphic programming, the VSX-series represents an innovative HMI generation, providing users with an unequaled degree of scalable functionality.

One of the world’s biggest seawater desalination plant operates at maximum efficiency with minimal engineering costs — Plant Pax process control system from Rockwell Automation helps Sorek Desalination Project set new performance benchmark in terms of output and costs.

Producing pharmaceuticals requires such a multitude and complexity of aspects to be considered that the actual drying process stage is often overlooked. This is despite the fact that high quality and reproducible drying can improve product quality while at the same time optimising the entire production process. This is what a major pharmaceutical company experienced when they implemented a condensation drying system.

Invista Performance Technologies and Xinjiang Blue Ridge Tunhe Chemical Industry announced the start-up of a PTMEG line with a capacitiy of 46,000 ts per year.

Solvay suspends until further notice the production of soda ash at its plant in Alexandria, Egypt, as sharply higher energy costs have undermined the plant's profitability.

The Linde Group announced the signing of an agreement between Linde and alternative energy company Renergen for the development of the Free State Helium and Natural Gas (NG) field near Welkom in South Africa, expected to commence operations in 2018.

Bechtel has signed a license agreement with Assiut Oil Refining Company (Asorc), a subsidiary of Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), for the process design of a delayed coking unit at the Assiut refinery in Egypt.