Everything metallic corrodes. The oil and gas industry spends approximately 1.14 billion euros (1.37 billion dollars) a year trying to prevent the damage this causes. How to reduce the costs of corrosion by using environmentally benign corrosion inhibitor products? Dr. Nihal Obeyesekere, Clariant's Head of Global Innovation Integrity Management for Business Unit Oil and Mining Services, has won the 2021 NACE Fellow Honor from the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP).

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contracts to plant revamp projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The Sesotec metal separator Rapid Pro-Sense with the control unit Genius+ offers extremely high sensitivity due to its innovative HRF (High Resolution Frequency) technology. The detection signal is sent and evaluated at a special frequency.

With an aim to support decarbonization efforts in Eastern United States, Mitsubishi Power and Texas Brine have joined forces to enhance Mitsubishi Power’s Strategic Infrastructure of Long-duration hydrogen storage solutions across North America.

With this deal, Shell will speed up the commercialization of Lanzajet’s ‘Alcohol-to-Jet’ technology which plays a key role in producing sustainable aviation fuel. Lanzajet is also building the first commercial-scale Alcohol-to-Jet facility in the world in Georgia, USA.

Important management decisions have been made in the past few days at Total, Kuraray, Neste, Gilead, Nova and Mitsubishi Chemical. PROCESS worldwide summarizes the changes in company leadership for you.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde has secured an order from Sedin Engineering Co. to build and supply four new low-emission, stamp-charged coke oven batteries for Hohhot Risun China Gas Energy Co. in China. With a total annual capacity of 3.9 Mio tons, the coke oven batteries will include Thyssenkrupp’s proprietary Envibat technology as well as the Cokemaster automation system.

In September 2020, the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) was founded by eleven prominent companies from six countries under the leadership of the nova-Institute. The initiative aims to support and speed up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials.

With an aim to meet the growing demands of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India's agricultural, personal care and pharmaceutical markets, Nouryon and Atul have collaborated to establish a new production plant in Gujarat, India.

Designed for demanding hazardous industrial environments, the rugged S88 Specific Ion Sensors and the intelligent X80 Universal Transmitter Analyzer from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) are available as Atex and Iecex or FM approved. The solutions provide safe, precise measurement of water-based chemicals for effective process use and effluent treatment prior to re-use or discharge in order to meet water quality standards and regulations.