Solvay Builds New Hydrogen Peroxide Plant in Saudi Arabia

Solvay and Saudi Aramco plan to builds new hydrogen peroxide plant in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia Kingdom. The hydrogen peroxide plant will be in commercial operation in second half of 2015.

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from this plant is intended to supply propylene oxide (PO) plant.  Propylene oxide is used for the manufacture of propylene glycol, polyurethane and glycol ethers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dow Chemical Abised $2.5 Million Punishment

Dow Chemical abides $2.5 million punishment at its Midland plant, due to violation against air, water and waste regulations between 2005 and early 2007. The violations were found by EPA inspectors.

The EPA’s inspectors also found that cracking and pitting structures that maintain hazardous materials released to the environment. Besides, it was found a failure against monitoring, testing, leak detection, record keeping and reporting under different regulations. Read the rest of this entry »

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Formosa Builds New Ethylene Plant in US

Formosa Plastics, a Taiwan based chemical plant, plan to build a new ethylene plant at Point Comforts, Texas , United States. The new plant requires an investment of $US1.5 billion.

The ethylene plant will be produced from ethane through catalytic converter to ethylene. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lanxess AG Building Leather Chemical Plant in China

lanxess AGLanxess AG, a Germany leading chemical specialty chemical manufacturer, has started building leather chemical plant in China, with production capacity of 50,000 ton per year.

The new chemical plant project is required $40 million investment. The plant will start its commercial operation  in the first half of 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cara Cepat Mengubah Satuan Flow Gas

Untuk mengubah flow gas ideal dari Nm3/hr atau Nm3/min ke satuan lain lumayan memerlukan waktu. Apalagi satuan awal yang digunakan tidak menggunakan Satuan Internasional.

Tapi sekarang anda bisa menggunakan cara yang lebih cepat untuk melakukannya. Kini anda bisa menggunakan gas flow calculator secara online. Penggunaannya pun cukup mudah.

Anda cukup memasukkan nama gas di kolom gas name, lalu masukkan satuan flow awal yang akan anda ubah beserta data pressure dan temperature nya. Read the rest of this entry »

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Chemical Safety Board AS Serukan Penghentian Gas Blowing Dengan Gas Alam

Ledakan yang terjadi di power plant milik Kleen Energy pada tanggal 7 Pebruari 2010 yang lalu, di Amerika Serikat, mendorong Chemical Safety Board (CSB) untuk melarang penggunaan gas alam atau natural gas untuk keperluan gas blowing. Gas blowing yang dimaksud adalah untuk membersihkan perpipaan dari kontaminasi sisa pengelasan atau kotoran lainnya sebelum digunakan.

Gas blowing operation dengan menggunakan gas alam yang notabene merupakan flammable gas menciptakan kondisi atmorferik yang sangat berbahaya. Kondisi atmosfer yang siap meledak kapan saja ketika terdapat sumber api atau panas.

Video safety berikut, yang dirilis oleh Chemical Safety Board AS, akan menggambarkan bagaimana bahayanya gas blowing dengan gas alam. Read the rest of this entry »

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