Petronas has signed an agreement with the Sarawak State Government concerning a methanol plant project and with Huchems for the supply of natural gas.

Honeywell UOP will provide its Oleflex Process Technology for a petrochemical plant of Lijin in China. A new 170,000 tons–per–year isobutene plant (startup in 2015) will use Honeywell's technology to produce raw materials for fuels and synthetic rubber.

Tight deadlines, extreme quality standards and massive cost pressure—these are the demands which currently dictate pharmaceutical plant engineering. The new but familiar market of the future is biotechnology, although chemical syntheses are also back in demand.

Sabic announced that it will have a new pilot plant for development of next-generation polypropylenes on-stream in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands, by the end of March next year.

Situated in Felling, Akzo Nobel’s new campus intends to deliver superior innovations and products for the marine and oil and gas industries. A new application and testing laboratory is one of the main features of the campus.

The world’s population is expanding rapidly, and so too are its energy requirements. Providing food for almost seven billion people, and reducing our dependence on crude oil by using plant-based energy sources, require the targeted use of fertilizers. The production of nitrogen-based fertilizers is a chemically complex process in which heat is repeatedly transferred between the process media. As the world’s leading fertilizer plant engineering company, Uhde relies mainly on plate heat exchangers from GEA Ecoflex.

Preem and Vattenfall will be continuing their collaboration on fossil-free hydrogen gas for producing biofuels on a large-scale in the background of a study conducted in spring. The study reveals that Preem’s Lysekil plant in Sweden is ideal for building a 50 MW electrolysis plant for hydrogen biofuel production.

Wear of impellers is a problem that is often encountered in mixing applications. It is possible, however, to maximize the lifetime of agitator components by implementing appropriate measures with respect to their shape, coating or solid ceramic design or a combination of the above.

Hydrogen - a colourless, odourless gas is increasingly gaining attention as a future source of energy free from environmental pollution. Its new use has been found in the automobile and power generation sector. But the storage of hydrogen has always been a problem due to its small molecular size – now solid state hydrogen storage technology could bring a breakthrough...

While consumer and commercial wireless technology has grown rapidly in functionality and availability, the adoption of wireless for process control has been a little slower. Reliability and security remain primary concerns in critical production applications, including flow measurement. The industrial landscape is changing, however, as wireless control systems, networking products and field devices become more widely available and industry standards crystallize.