Linn High Therm, a manufacturer of industrial and lab furnaces, presents new chamber furnaces with gastight muffle for heat treatment processes under protective gas atmosphere up to 1050 °C.

Whether coal, gas or even biomass will replace petroleum as the chemical raw material of the future is not yet clear. However, one thing is certain. Alternatives will be needed in the long term despite that fact the even pessimists predict that oil will be available for the next forty years. High prices, increasing consumption in Asia and the chaotic political situation in the oil producing countries add an element of urgency to the discussion on diversification of the raw material base. The industry is looking for an intelligent mix and an evolutionary approach to the supply of raw materials.

Mc Dermott International has bagged a technology contract which includes basic engineering and technology licensing as well as detailed engineering and material supply of heaters for Irkutsk Oil Company’s 650 KTA ethylene plant in Russia.

Technip was awarded by Kazanorgsintez a contract to provide engineering and procurement of three proprietary SMK grassroots furnaces at Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

Exact and reliable chemical analysis of feedstocks and products is very important in the manufacture of fine chemicals. Laboratory gas chromatographs are among the techniques traditionally used for this task, but pressure to improve process operations has brought change. Online process gas chromatography now provides significant benefits, as shown on a naphtha cracker.

The food vs. fuel debate has cast a dark shadow over the potentials of biofuels - now second generation processes aim to untap to huge heaps of biogenic residues that forestry and agriculture produce. One of them, the Bioliq process of KIT and Air Liquide, announces anew milestone; The start up of the second stage of its pilot plant...

Carbonization processes such as pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) expected to fulfil important roles in future bio-refinery concepts. However, until now a major problem is: These processes form waste waters that contain various environmental hazardous substances. Researchers in Potsdam/Germany seem to crack it.

CB&I has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $ 40 million by DuPont to provide engineering, procurement and construction for an ethane cracking furnace expansion project at Dupont's Sabine River Works ethylene plant in Orange, Texas.

Refinery modernizes safety systems in just two weeks and assures plant availability for the future—In September 2014, the German refinery Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems. The technology selection emphasized plant availability and a high level of investment security, while extensive preliminary testing guaranteed a smooth changeover.

Graphene is making the transition from research journals to commercial applications. This article discusses a new class of nano-material and their commercialization in wide ranging applications.