The safe and sustainable supply of high-quality water is a major challenge for municipal authorities - and all the more so in view of growing urbanization. Domo Chemicals, a leading manufacturer of polyamide-based plastics, has a range of solutions specially designed for such applications. Together with the pump supplier Wilo, added value is to be created for water processes.

Elobau’s stainless-steel immersion float switch has the capability to monitor tank applications and empty and overflow control in process engineering. The freely configurable one-size-fits-all solution is suitable for level measurement of water, oil and chemicals.

LAR Process Analysers has further developed its proven Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analyzer with UV persulfate oxidation – QuickTOCuv. The new QuickTOCuv II, a measuring device for continuous online determination of total carbon (TC), total organic carbon, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) in pure water, now comes with improved features.

At the Hannover Messe, the Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) will be introducing new nano-coatings that reduce the effort required for cleaning heat exchangers as well as their corrosion. In these new coatings, the research scientists combine antiadhesive, anticorrosive and, on demand, also antimicrobial properties.

In this article we describe some essential analytical parameters and general lab tasks applied to analyze the aforementioned products. Some facts and explanations about the parameters, as well as some guidance on how to perform these tasks best, are presented.

Enexor BioEnergy has been chosen by Plug and Play to join its Energy and Sustainability Accelerator which aims at reducing carbon emissions. Under this new role, Enexor BioEnergy will use its Bio-CHP system, which converts organic, plastic or biomass waste into renewable power and thermal energy, to launch renewable energy pilots across Asia.

Venture Global has plans to invest more than 10 billion dollars for establishing a new LNG export facility (CP2) in the State of Louisiana, USA. This will be the fourth plant set up by the company in the state and it also plans to develop a CP express pipeline which will provide natural gas to the CP2 LNG facility.

What goes around: Longer haul distances are one of the reasons that energy use in mines is increasing globally by 6 per cent per year. It is not surprising, therefore, that mines are looking for ways to counter the associated increase in energy cost. But there is a new material that could help to make conveying minerals energy efficient and reliable.

Borouge has awarded the EPC contract to Technip Energies for developing a new 1,500 plus KTA ethane cracker unit which will be integrated in the Borouge 4 petrochemical complex in Ruwais, UAE.

Circor has launched the Allweiler SNA (TM) series of customisable three-screw lube oil pumps for diverse API 676/682 applications. The series allows customised setups in any of the 12 ways, a choice of foot or flange mounting schemes, and the ability to adjust inlet and outlet positions at a moment's notice.