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Flowserve announces partnership deal with Gradiant

Flowserve Corp has entered into a non-exclusive partnership agreement with cleantech water solutions company Gradiant to help address challenging problems in water and wastewater treatment. The partnership brings together Flowserve’s flow control solutions and product expertise with Gradiant’s tailored water treatment technology. Flowserve provides engineered and industrial pumps, seals and…
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Other News

Apr 1, 2022

Merger plans between Neles and Valmet finalised

Valmet and Neles Corporation have announced that their respective boards have signed a merger agreement. The combined company will have an accumulative net sales for 2020 of approximately €4.3 billion. The combination is expected to generate annual run-rate synergies of approximately €25 million of which approximately 60% are expected to be achieved by 2023 and approximately 90%by…
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Mar 31, 2022

API welcomes plans to boost LNG exports to Europe

American Petroleum Institute (API) president and CEO Mike Sommers has responded to the announcement by President Biden about increasing US liquified natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe. President Biden and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen want to establish a joint task force to help increase exports to Europe and reduce their dependency on Russian natural gas. “We…
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Policy News

Mar 31, 2022

Wärtsilä outlines how Europe can cut power sector gas consumption

Europe can cut its power sector gas consumption in half, reduce energy costs by €323 billion and increase energy independence by 2030 if it rapidly scales up its renewable capacity, according to a new report from Wärtsilä. To tackle the energy crisis and enable rapid decarbonisation, the technology company is calling on European leaders to implement a monumental but achievable level of…
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Mar 31, 2022

New power plants to boost natural gas production in Uzbekistan

A new 240 MW thermal power plant has been commissioned while a new 220 MW piston gas power plant is under construction in Uzbekistan. The power plant has been built by the Turkish company Cengiz Enerji and is in the Kibray district of the Tashkent region. The construction of a separate gas piston power plant, also by Cengiz Enerji, with 220 MW capacity is located in the Khavas district of the…
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Mar 30, 2022

Clariant wins three new petrochem contracts

Clariant’s Catalysts business has been awarded three new contracts by China’s Lihuayi Group for its upcoming petrochemicals production units. The agreements include three of Clariant’s high-performance catalysts for the production of ethylene, styrene, and propylene. From Clariant’s ethylene catalyst line, Lihuayi chose the OleMax 101 catalyst for its 1000 KTA olefins plant for…
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Mar 30, 2022

Shell reveals new oil production operations

Shell has announced the start of production at PowerNap with an estimated peak production of 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). PowerNap, a subsea development in the US Gulf of Mexico, is a tie-back to the Shell-operated Olympus production hub in the prolific Mars Corridor. “Shell has been producing in the Mars Corridor for more than 25 years, and we continue to find ways to…
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Water/Wastewater News

Mar 30, 2022

Refurbished pumps help improve cost savings

Riventa has identified annual savings of almost £20,000 (€23,600) for a food processor’s cooling system after refurbishing five pumps. Sending chilled water from heat-exchangers, the pumps were all found to be showing significant signs of wear. With an average load of 45% (equivalent to 2.2 pumps running at any one time), the five pumps had even more demands placed on them during warmer…
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Mar 29, 2022

Neste studies next stage in chemical recycling process

Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal is to scale up processing capabilities for liquefied waste plastic by implementing proprietary technologies to pretreat and upgrade liquefied waste plastic and integrating the technologies into the refinery operations. The targeted…
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Product News

Mar 29, 2022

Emerson expands valve range

Emerson has expanded its ASCO™ Series 090 line of miniature solenoid valves. The company has added a new three-way Series 090 valve configuration to enable lighter, more space-efficient solutions for gas control in oxygen therapy, compression therapy and gas analyser devices. Originally developed as a two-way valve for air and inert gases in portable medical devices, the Series 090 valve…
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Mar 28, 2022

Vitol invests in plastic oils firm WPU

Vitol has entered into a strategic partnership with Danish company WPU which recycles waste plastic into plastic oils. Vitol will offtake and market the recycled plastic oils generated by WPU’s new pyrolysis plant in Faarevejle in Odsherred Municipality north of Copenhagen, which is expected to open in early 2023, with an additional two plants to be opened next year. The combined capacity of…
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Mar 28, 2022

KBR technology selected for petrochemicals project

KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a new olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the license and engineering for the olefins production plant. KBR’s K-COT catalytic olefins technology is the key enabler that can process a wide range of feedstocks to achieve exceptional…
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Features

Mar 28, 2022

Achieving uncompromised quality in high-purity chemical production

Their names sound like sinister creations that would spring from the evil mind of a mad scientist in a futuristic novel or movie - hexafluorochloride, dexamethasone, germanium and cadmium telluride. In reality, they are among the many chemical ingredients that are indispensable foundational components in the manufacture of commodities such as semiconductors. The main concern for the…
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Policy News

Mar 25, 2022

EU and US sign LNG deal to wean bloc off Russian energy

The EU and the US have signed a liquified natural gas (LNG) deal in a bid to reduce reliance on Russian energy. The new agreement will see the US provide the EU with at least 15 billion additional cubic metres of LNG by the end of the year, the BBC reported. The bloc has already said it will cut Russian gas use in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia currently supplies about 40% of…
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Mar 25, 2022

TotalEnergies launches carbon capture pilot project in Dunkirk

TotalEnergies has unveiled a 3D industrial pilot to demonstrate an innovative process for capturing CO2 at ArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk site. With support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, the project aims to validate replicable technical solutions for carbon capture. The project, driven by a consortium including TotalEnergies, ArcelorMittal, Axens and IFP…
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Mar 25, 2022