Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Plant Watch Metso to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX in... http://che.com/news/4085.html
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Market demand for water purification is driving reverse osmosis forward... http://che.com/news/4096.html
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information In an economy with soaring raw material and rising heat-transfer-fluid... http://che.com/news/4097.html
A thermochemical process for converting biomass to ethanol, other biofuels and chemical intermediates will be developed jointly by Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and... http://che.com/news/4102.html
A process that makes glass by "zapping" the raw materials with a plasma as they fly through the air is being developed by Japanese researchers in a new project led by NEDO... http://che.com/news/4103.html
Engineers at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu) are developing solar concentrators that have the potential to increase the electrical power output from solar cells by a factor of more... http://che.com/news/4104.html
Optoacoustic gas detection determines gas content via the measurement of acoustic pressure waves that are propagated as a gas is irradiated under an appropriately tuned light. A... http://che.com/news/4105.html
The production of hydrogen by water splitting promises to become less expensive through a solar-energy process being developed at Penn State University (University Park, Pa.... http://che.com/news/4106.html
Among this year’s award winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA; Washington, D.C.) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge are: Battelle, SiGNa Chemistry... http://che.com/news/4107.html
Dow Chemical (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) has started using a renewable energy source — methane from landfill gas — at its Dalton, Ga., plant where carpet latex is... http://che.com/news/4108.html
Chisso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.chisso.co.jp) has established a new joint-venture (JV) company to produce solar grade silicon using a new process that was first developed by Chisso and... http://che.com/news/4109.html
Corn residue left in fermenters after ethanol production could find a future use as a filler in plastics through research being done at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s North... http://che.com/news/4110.html
QuantumSphere, Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) has commercialized electrodes coated with the firm’s Nano NiFe catalysts for making hydrogen in water... http://che.com/news/4111.html
Time consuming and prone to error, microscopy — the manual counting of yeast cells with a hemocytometer — has long been the primary method for determining the progress of... http://che.com/news/4112.html
Flowserve Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) has introduced the Valtek Valdisk high-cycle seat, claimed to be a "breakthrough" seat design for Valtek butterfly... http://che.com/news/4113.html
Researchers at the University of Surrey (U.K., www.surrey.ac.uk) have discovered a method to make ultra-small, pure crystals of buckminsterfullerene (C60)... http://che.com/news/4114.html
The global market for carbon-capture technologies was worth $88.7 billion in 2007, and is expected to increase to over $236.3 billion by 2012, according to a report published... http://che.com/news/4115.html
On July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.) released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) soliciting public input on the effects of climate... http://che.com/news/4116.html
The high salt concentrations, extreme pH values and high temperatures required in biotechnological research on extremophiles and marine organisms cause corrosion in the stainless-steel... http://che.com/news/4117.html
Last month, Cargill (Minneapolis, Min.; www.cargill.com) broke ground in Chicago on a $22-million manufacturing plant for producing BiOH polyols. Scheduled for startup in November, the... http://che.com/news/4118.html