Invista’s P8 PTA technology is expected to be used at a scale of 1.25 million metric tonnes per year for Pan-Asia’s new PTA plant. Claimed to be Invista’s first technology license in the Middle East, the plant will be constructed in Jizan Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

Under the contract, Axens and Exxon Mobil will market and deliver all technologies associated within a refinery alkylation block. Together, the companies will also offer technologies to produce high octane gasoline.

Amidst the global pandemic, there was an urgent need to manufacture Covid vaccines across the globe. In this scenario, the pharma company Catalent converted one of its aseptic processing lines, which specialized in powder processing, to liquid processing. The move helped the firm to produce its first commercial batch of Covid vaccines in April 2021.

BASF commissioned Rockwell Automation to modernize an automation system in a loading bay used for polymer dispersions at the company’s Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany. With only eight months to plan the new system and just three days for commissioning, the project required an extraordinarily structured approach and an intensive test phase. The result is a system with high levels of flexibility and availability as well as easier maintenance.

The goal of debottlenecking is to increase production capacity at an existing plant by making modifications to the equipment configuration or workflow. This is accomplished by eliminating bottlenecks that limit throughput. It can be an extremely profitable exercise for users, because in most cases debottlenecking adds extra capacity at a fraction of the cost of new build or expansion. PROCESS has put together some practical examples.

McDermott has won an engineering and procurement contract from Heat Transfer Technologies DMCC for a spent caustic treatment solution for Baltic Chemical Plant’s Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project, claimed to be the world’s largest polyethylene integration project.

Gentle and efficient mixing and drying of humid solids with different free-flowing behaviour and densities were the main consideration in the design of the conical vacuum contact dryer CD of IKA.

When concentric wafer-type or lug-type butterfly valves are installed between stub flanges in polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP) pipework, mismatches in diameter often require users to accept compromises. Is that really necessary?

Finned pack heat exchangers — coils — find wide application in air handling units (AHU) and ventilation systems. Engineers often approach the rating of finned pack heat exchangers from one side only, whether that is the fluid side or the air side. As a result, a number of myths and suppositions endure in the industry, leading to errors and misunderstandings. This article deals with water heating and cooling coils, and focuses on the properties of the water or brine (glycol).

With an investment of 1.9 million dollars, Arcelor Mittal and Sekisui Chemical have collaborated for a project which will focus on capturing and re-using carbon waste gases from the steelmaking process. Sekisui Chemical’s new technology that converts CO2 to carbon monoxide will also be tested at Arcelor Mittal’s laboratory in Spain.