Three major chemical processing companies announced the startup of a demonstration plant to show the viability of large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. BASF, SABIC, and Linde on ...

The Newburyport chemical-processing plant where an employee was killed in an explosion in May lacked the proper safeguards that could have prevented the 62-year-old worker’s death, according to a ...

An International Falls chemical processing plant that uses carbon dioxide and other byproducts from a paper mill to create a wide variety of products ran afoul of its state air quality permit limits, ...

1. Digital tools enhance chemical safety through predictive monitoring and real-time analytics. 2. Electrical safety is vital to preventing catastrophic incidents in chemical plants. 3. IoT sensors ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...

In a breakthrough for environmentally friendly chemical production, researchers have developed an economical way to make succinic acid, an important industrial chemical, from sugarcane. The team has ...