European Chemical Engineer

As the Korean and Asian markets continue to expand rapidly, SABIC Innovative Plastics has announced that it is to open a major production line at its Chung-Ju facility in Korea.

Wireless technology makes it possible to incorporate new strategic measurements and other data to solutions that simply were either not practical or even possible to implement in a wired communications environment.

BP Chemicals has invested £20million in a refurbishment project at its acetic acid production plant in Hull, UK. One element of the upgrade to the steam reformer is the installation of six Servomex2700 combustion gas analysers and a manual calibration and control panel, which have contributed to reduced fuel consumption and savings of £500000 per year (Fig.1).

 
October 2004
 
April 2004