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UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemical production in China
FOCUS second, globally. The firm owns another sodium methoxide plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Original Source: Chemical Business (India), Feb 2012, 26 (2), 65-66 (Website: http://www.printsjournals.com) © Prints India 2012
Honeywell extending adsorbant and catalyst production in US Honeywell’s subsidiary UOP has invested $20 M (€15.2 M) for the expansion of adsorbant and catalyst capacity at Mobile, AL. The work is scheduled for completion in 4Q 2012. This will involve an increase in production of the UOP ION-SIVTM range of adsorbants used to extract radioactive ions from liquids. These are being used at the FukushimaDaiichi nuclear reactor for the reduction in radioactive caesium from waste water following the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. UOP is also raising capacity for adsorbants and catalysts used for refining and petrochemicals production. UOP ADS-47 Parex increases paraxylene yields by more than 20%. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 16 Apr 2012, (589), 7 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemical production in China UOP LLC announced that its UOP C3 and C4 Oleflex processes have been selected by China’s Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co to produce key petrochemicals. The plant will be the first in China, and only the second in the world, to combine both processes, which are used to produce propylene and isobutylene. The new units, expected to start up in 2014, will produce 133,000 tonne/y of propylene and 87,000 tonne/y of isobutylene at its facility in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China. UOP will provide the engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training, and technical service for the project. Original Source: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 455 2000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website: http://www.honeywell.com, (25 Apr 2012) © Honeywell International Inc 2012. PR Newswire, 25 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
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NEW TECHNOLOGY ACAL Energy unveils new fuel cell stack design ACACAL Energy has introduced a 12 kW-powered fuel cell stack design especially suited for automotive and stationary power applications. The company made the new design to be sixfold smaller than the earlier version. ACAL Energy also showcased its FlowCath platinum-free fuel cell technology, which provides a patented and cost-effective liquid catalyst as an alternative to the precious metal catalysts usually found in standard fuel cells. The technology addresses the problems behind lost performance in auto cycling as well as continuous operation. In 2011, the company won a £1 M ($1.6 M) grant from the Carbon Trust’s Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge. In summer 2011, ACAL Energy and Gordon Murray Design collaborated to develop a cheap, reliable fuel cell car using the fuel cell technology. Original Source: Fuel Cells Bulletin, Mar 2012, 9 (Website: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/nl/fcb/home.asp) © Elsevier Ltd 2012
Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles reduce CO2 Copper is one of the few metals that can turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels with relatively little energy. When alloyed with gold and fashioned into an electrode and stimulated with voltage, copper acts as a strong catalyst, setting off an electrochemical reaction with carbon dioxide that reduces the greenhouse gas to methane or methanol. Original Source: Nanotechnology Now, 11 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.nanotechnow.com/news.cgi?story_id=44906) © 7thWave Inc 2012
efficiency and considerably longer shelf life as opposed to the benchmark catalyst. LK-853 FENCE imparts superb selectivity, which lessens unwanted methanol formation across the LTS reactor thus resulting in higher daily output rates, lower methanol emissions and better quality of process condensates. The catalyst’s good poison resistance leads to extended catalysts shelf life. Original Source: Nitrogen + Syngas, Mar/Apr 2012, (316), 46,48-49 (Website: http://www.bcinsight.com) © BCInsight Ltd 2012
Green Earth Nano Science expands self-cleaning coating offering to Western Canada Green Earth Nano Science Inc (GENS), a Canadian environmental solutions developer and manufacturer of award-winning GENS NANO & SolarStucco – self-sanitising and selfcleaning photocatalyst coatings and proprietary air & surface purification system – signed an applicator, distributor licensing agreement with Ecoblast Solutions Inc and The Columbia Restoration Co Inc, Canadian companies from British Columbia. Original Source: Nanotechnology Now, 15 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.nanotechnow.com/news.cgi?story_id=44931) © 7thWave Inc 2012
China sets up four-year project for NdBR China has reportedly launched a fouryear research project aimed at designing production processes for neodymium-catalyzed butadiene rubber (Nd-BR). Xinjiang Science and Technology Agency, Karamay Petrochemical, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Institute of the National Science and Technology and Xinjiang University have agreed to take part in the project. Original Source: European Rubber Journal, 30 Mar 2012 (Website: http://www.european-rubberjournal.com) © Crain Communications Ltd 2012
A new low methanol LTS catalyst Haldor Topsoe is offering a new low methanol LTS catalyst dubbed LK-853 FENCE. The new product delivers high and stable activity, which leads to consistently higher carbon monoxide conversion rates, increased process
Effect of catalyst support modification on performance of pre-hydrotreating catalyst for reforming unit PetroChina’s Lanzhou Petrochemical Research Center and Lanzhou Petrochemical Company, PetroChina,
JUNE 2012
Honeywell extending adsorbant and catalyst production in US Honeywell’s subsidiary UOP has invested $20 M (€15.2 M) for the expansion of adsorbant and catalyst capacity at Mobile, AL. The work is scheduled for completion in 4Q 2012. This will involve an increase in production of the UOP ION-SIVTM range of adsorbants used to extract radioactive ions from liquids. These are being used at the FukushimaDaiichi nuclear reactor for the reduction in radioactive caesium from waste water following the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. UOP is also raising capacity for adsorbants and catalysts used for refining and petrochemicals production. UOP ADS-47 Parex increases paraxylene yields by more than 20%. Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 16 Apr 2012, (589), 7 (Website: http://www.industrie.com/chimie) (in French) © ETAI Information 2012
UOP selected to provide technology for petrochemical production in China UOP LLC announced that its UOP C3 and C4 Oleflex processes have been selected by China’s Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co to produce key petrochemicals. The plant will be the first in China, and only the second in the world, to combine both processes, which are used to produce propylene and isobutylene. The new units, expected to start up in 2014, will produce 133,000 tonne/y of propylene and 87,000 tonne/y of isobutylene at its facility in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China. UOP will provide the engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training, and technical service for the project. Original Source: Honeywell International Inc, 101 Columbia Road, Morristown, NJ, USA, tel: +1 973 455 2000, fax: +1 973 455 4807, website: http://www.honeywell.com, (25 Apr 2012) © Honeywell International Inc 2012. PR Newswire, 25 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.prnewswire.com)
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NEW TECHNOLOGY ACAL Energy unveils new fuel cell stack design ACACAL Energy has introduced a 12 kW-powered fuel cell stack design especially suited for automotive and stationary power applications. The company made the new design to be sixfold smaller than the earlier version. ACAL Energy also showcased its FlowCath platinum-free fuel cell technology, which provides a patented and cost-effective liquid catalyst as an alternative to the precious metal catalysts usually found in standard fuel cells. The technology addresses the problems behind lost performance in auto cycling as well as continuous operation. In 2011, the company won a £1 M ($1.6 M) grant from the Carbon Trust’s Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge. In summer 2011, ACAL Energy and Gordon Murray Design collaborated to develop a cheap, reliable fuel cell car using the fuel cell technology. Original Source: Fuel Cells Bulletin, Mar 2012, 9 (Website: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/nl/fcb/home.asp) © Elsevier Ltd 2012
Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles reduce CO2 Copper is one of the few metals that can turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels with relatively little energy. When alloyed with gold and fashioned into an electrode and stimulated with voltage, copper acts as a strong catalyst, setting off an electrochemical reaction with carbon dioxide that reduces the greenhouse gas to methane or methanol. Original Source: Nanotechnology Now, 11 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.nanotechnow.com/news.cgi?story_id=44906) © 7thWave Inc 2012
efficiency and considerably longer shelf life as opposed to the benchmark catalyst. LK-853 FENCE imparts superb selectivity, which lessens unwanted methanol formation across the LTS reactor thus resulting in higher daily output rates, lower methanol emissions and better quality of process condensates. The catalyst’s good poison resistance leads to extended catalysts shelf life. Original Source: Nitrogen + Syngas, Mar/Apr 2012, (316), 46,48-49 (Website: http://www.bcinsight.com) © BCInsight Ltd 2012
Green Earth Nano Science expands self-cleaning coating offering to Western Canada Green Earth Nano Science Inc (GENS), a Canadian environmental solutions developer and manufacturer of award-winning GENS NANO & SolarStucco – self-sanitising and selfcleaning photocatalyst coatings and proprietary air & surface purification system – signed an applicator, distributor licensing agreement with Ecoblast Solutions Inc and The Columbia Restoration Co Inc, Canadian companies from British Columbia. Original Source: Nanotechnology Now, 15 Apr 2012 (Website: http://www.nanotechnow.com/news.cgi?story_id=44931) © 7thWave Inc 2012
China sets up four-year project for NdBR China has reportedly launched a fouryear research project aimed at designing production processes for neodymium-catalyzed butadiene rubber (Nd-BR). Xinjiang Science and Technology Agency, Karamay Petrochemical, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun Institute of the National Science and Technology and Xinjiang University have agreed to take part in the project. Original Source: European Rubber Journal, 30 Mar 2012 (Website: http://www.european-rubberjournal.com) © Crain Communications Ltd 2012
A new low methanol LTS catalyst Haldor Topsoe is offering a new low methanol LTS catalyst dubbed LK-853 FENCE. The new product delivers high and stable activity, which leads to consistently higher carbon monoxide conversion rates, increased process
Effect of catalyst support modification on performance of pre-hydrotreating catalyst for reforming unit PetroChina’s Lanzhou Petrochemical Research Center and Lanzhou Petrochemical Company, PetroChina,
JUNE 2012