Branching into various industries, blockchain is now strongly making its presence felt in the oil and gas as well as the chemical process industries. PROCESS brings you the many plus points of this dynamic technology in chemical process industries.

Surge protective devices are safety-related components and, as such, an essential part of process plants. Information about the status and performance of these components as well as on the status of the plant itself play an important role in continuous monitoring and predictive maintenance. Get to know a system, which acquires all this information — and also enables it to be utilized in the Internet of Things.

Reliance Jio Digital Services has recently signed a deal with Haptik Infotech, one of India’s leading conversational AI platform. Under the deal, Reliance will hold an 87 % stake in the company and the rest will be held by Haptik founders and employees.

Cole-Parmer’s industry exclusive technology, Masterflex Live Cloud-enabled pumps, brings the Internet of Things (IoT) to pump applications, providing pump operators with the ability to remotely control and monitor pumps via the internet — without the need to be onsite. This feature has now been enhanced with 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 compliance, so that robust security, data control, and electronic records are possible with low-cost subscription.

Solvay announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Sunshield Chemicals, an Indian company specializing in surfactants, from Amit Choksey Group. This acquisition will enable Solvay’s Novecare business to accelerate growth plans in India for the home and personal care, agrochemicals, coatings and industrial applications markets.

With process instruments getting “smarter” year over year, their capabilities are often under-utilized. Important data that could help save costs remains unused. This potential can be tapped by using WirelessHart.

Maag will be exhibiting examples of its broad-ranging portfolio of extrusion-related systems on stand 6202 in hall A6 at Fakuma 2018 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, between October 16 and 20.

A central process control system is not sufficiently flexible or too expensive for many companies. The German engineering office for process automation/control, pac here relies on control units by Wago. In a project for biotechnology at Novartis, a remote system had to prove itself as a control unit of process systems in conjunction with a central monitoring system.

After the opening of the Domo Innovation Center in Mumbai India mid-2018, Domo Engineering Plastics announced a capacity expansion in its Premnitz site, Germany, which will be operational by mid-2019. The total annual capacity expansion will be of about 20 kt.

For more than 150 years, the German mechanical engineering industry has offered solutions for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Some VDMA members originated as companies that supplied technology to oil pioneers in Celle and its surrounding areas. Since then, however, the product range has widened significantly.