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Bio-technologies to convert GHG into low carbon fuels The nylon world leader, Invista from Wishita, Kansas, USA, and the bio-technology specialist LanzaTech signed a joint development agreement to convert carbon monoxide waste into butadiene and other chemical feedstocks. The producer of “Lycra” and other famous “Coolmax” fibers, Invista is developing and producing high added value […]
Reliance to gear up on $11 billion Jamnagar refinery expansion Reliance Industry Ltd (Reliance or RIL) is making major steps in the expansion of its refinery located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. With $11 billion capital expenditure, Reliance is planning one of the brownfield largest expansion of energy and petrochemical projects gobally. Commissioned on July 1999 with an installed refining capacity of 668,000 b/d, 1.9 million t/y Polypropylene and 1.5 million t/y Paraxylene unit, Jamnagar is the […]
Shale gas to help Celanese integration business model Celanese Corporation (Celanese) is a global technology and specialty materials company owning and operating a large acetyl complex at Clear Lake, close to Houston, Texas, USA. The positive developments in the U.S. energy complex to become a net gas exporter creates favorable conditions to explore all the […]
Fluor wins the Project Management Services Contract Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is converting a part of the fuel production for export into petrochemical added value products. In that purpose, RIL has awarded a contract to Fluor to provide project management services (PMS) for its refining and petrochemical projects to be executed in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. Commissioned […]
Definition: “PTA” is the acronym of Purified Terephthalic Acid. Comment: Modern technologies produce PTA by the catalytic liquid-phase oxidation of Para-Xylene (PX) in acetic acid, which is done in the presence of air and uses manganese or cobalt acetate as a catalyst. PTA is purified in a crystallizer, where unreacted xylene and water are flashed off. […]
