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Achieve success in gasoline hydrotreating

Alon USA: Sanghavi, K.
Axens North America: Schmidt, J.

Case history describes how to achieve superior performance during FCC gasoline hydrotreating

Prevent failures in olefin-cracking operations

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Gupta, R. P.  |  Pathak, H.

Failure analysis identifies root causes for damages to selective exchangers

HP Construction: South America

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

As of 2013, Braskem will reportedly have yet another alternative feedstock source. In addition to sugarcane ethanol, which is used to make green plastic, the company will begin using naphtha made from..

HP Construction: Middle East

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Meche, Helen

Morgan Thermal Ceramics has a contract to supply Superwool 607 HT Pyro-Bloc Modules as part of a world-class refinery being constructed by the Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Co. (SATORP..

Univar acquires Brazil chemical distributor Arinos

Brazil-based distributor Univar has acquired Arinos Quimica, a leading distributor of specialty and commodity chemicals in Brazil. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Linde to raise nitrogen production at Ohio plant

Linde will upgrade its supply network in the US Midwest by significantly increasing production at its air separation plant in Delta, Ohio. Linde will add a 575 tpd nitrogen liquefier, which will capture spare molecules the plant is already producing, the company said.

Air Liquide to engineer, license coal-to-propylene project in China

The engineering and construction division of Air Liquide signed a contract with the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (SNCG) in China to build a 500,000 tpy methanol-to-propylene (MTP) plant, following the successful commissioning of the first industrial scale unit built with the same client.

Siemens to supply core compressor train for China propane dehydrogenation unit

Siemens Energy has received an order for the supply of two gas-turbine-driven axial-flow compressors trains for the first propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project in China.

BioAmber to build biosuccinic acid plant by 2013 in Sarnia, Ontario

BioAmber has selected Sarnia, Ontario, as the location for its first North American biosuccinic acid plant. The Sarnia plant will have an initial capacity of 17,000 tpy and will be commissioned in 2013.

India ammonia group picks KBR for engineering, technology license

KBR was awarded a contract by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) - a Jaypee Group company - to provide license and engineering design services for JAL’s brownfield 2,200 tpd ammonia plant in Kanpur, India.