Novatec Solar and BASF start operations of solar thermal demonstration plant with new molten salt technology

12-Sep-2014 - Novatec Solar and BASF have successfully commissioned a solar thermal demonstration plant based on a new type of molten salt technology, known as direct molten salt or DMS technology. The plant is located on the site of the solar-thermal power plant PE1 in southern Spain. The innovative feature ...

Merck Builds New Production Plant for Pharmaceutical Raw Materials

New plant for the production of inorganic salts by crystallization

22-Jan-2010 - Merck KGaA announced that it has started construction work at its Darmstadt site on a production plant for the manufacture of inorganic salts. This will increase capacity by around 50% compared to the production lines currently being used. The company is investing around € 30 million in planning, ...

The Million Euro Nanoreactor

04-Dec-2007 - Jeroen Cornelissen of the Institute for Molecules and Materials at the Radboud University in the Netherlands has recently received EUR 1 million from EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards). The award will allow Cornelissen (35), an assistant professor at Radboud and a member of the scientific ...

DFG presents the 2006 MAK and BAT value list

Focus on health protection during pregnancy

21-Jul-2006 - The Senate Commission of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) on the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area has presented the 2006 Maximum Allowable Concentrations (Maximale Arbeitsplatzkonzentrationen - MAK) and Biological ...

Bayer: Further reduction in emissions despite higher production volumes

Greenhouse gases emissions was cut by 7 percent compared with the previous year

12-Jul-2006 - Despite an increase in production, the Bayer Group achieved further environmental improvements in 2005 by significantly lowering emissions again. Greenhouse gas emissions, for example, fell by 7 percent compared with the previous year. The figure is taken from the newly published Sustainable ...

Miniature Gas Tank

Porous networks of organic Van der Waals crystals can selectively store methane and carbon dioxide

28-Jan-2005 - Washing powders are generally known to consist partially of inorganic zeolites. These aluminosilicates form porous structures whose cavities can act as storage for ions and molecules. In washing powders, they bind the calcium and magnesium ions that cause water to be hard. Largely ...

Sale of dmc² to OM Group Now Complete

15-Aug-2001 - Degussa AG of Dusseldorf has now finalized the sale of the dmc² Group to the OM Group, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, following receipt of competition clearance from the European Commission and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Obtaining this consent was the last hurdle that had to be overcome ...