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Method makes olefins under mild conditions

CHEMISTS in the US and South Korea have developed a technique to produce olefins, a vital chemical feedstock, under mild conditions using a base metal catalyst.

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Solvay sells polyamide business to BASF

SOLVAY is selling its integrated polyamides business to BASF for €1.6bn (US$1.92bn) as it continues its transformation into a specialty chemicals company.

Type: News

CGN bids for stake in UK’s Moorside nuclear project

CGN is bidding for a stake in the UK’s planned Moorside nuclear plant following the financial troubles that have struck its developer Toshiba.

Type: News

Australia to set new national energy policy

A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and promote power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries.

Type: News

EU launches €6m project to valorise jellyfish

A PROJECT seeking to explore turning jellyfish blooms into new products such as biofilters, fertilisers and animal feeds has received €6m (US$7m) funding from the European Union.

Type: News

Petronas invests in LNG Canada

PETRONAS is buying a 25% stake in LNG Canada, after previously scrapping plans to develop its own project in Canada.

Type: News

Ineos will build Europe’s first new cracker for 20 years

INEOS will invest €2.7bn (US$3.1bn) to build a new ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation unit in northwest Europe.

Type: News

ExxonMobil starts up new ethane cracker

EXXONMOBIL has announced that its new 1.5m t/y ethane cracker has commenced operations at its integrated chemical and refining complex in Baytown, Texas.

Type: News

Wood awarded new contracts at Norwegian refinery

WOOD has been awarded two strategic modifications contracts for Equinor’s Mongstad refinery in Norway.

Type: News

Chemical engineering student recognised for academic performance

A CHEMICAL engineering Master’s student at the University of Chester, UK, has been awarded a regional prize for academic performance.

Type: News

University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019

ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the 2019 New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year prize.

Type: News

Linde to invest US$1.4bn in Exxon Singapore supply deal

LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as part of a gas supply deal with ExxonMobil.

Type: News

Saudi Aramco reorganises downstream business

SAUDI Aramco has announced that it is reorganising its downstream business as part of plans to enhance the efficiency of the existing downstream assets.

Type: News

Australia talks to accelerate refinery package

THE Australian Government and “struggling” oil refiners are in talks to secure a rescue package by the end of the year amid concerns that a proposed six-month discussion period may be too long to avoid plant closures and job losses, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

Type: News

Closure of New Zealand smelter delayed to 2024

RIO TINTO has reversed its plans to close its New Zealand aluminium smelter this August, agreeing a new power contract that will see the plant operate until December 2024.

Type: News

Fight corrosion with simulation

CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the advent of simulating the participating electrochemical reactions that occur and transport processes that affect them. The same principles can be used to simulate, design and optimise industrial electrodeposition processes.

Type: Feature

IChemE’s Advances digitalisation conference opens for registrations

REGISTRATIONS are open for IChemE’s conference on Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industries.

Type: News

Two killed in Ludwigshafen explosion

Two missing and six seriously injured

Type: News

Third worker found dead at BASF site

One still missing and eight seriously injured

Type: News

People should stay in their homes after a nuclear accident

MASS relocation of residents following a major nuclear accident is largely unnecessary, according to new research in the UK.

Type: News