Air Products and City of Santa Monica Open New Hydrogen Fueling Station

20-Jun-2006 - Air Products joined the City of Santa Monica, Calif. and South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) in celebrating the official opening of a new hydrogen fueling station located at the Santa Monica City Yards. The Santa Monica station dedication also marked Air Products' successful ...

Air Products Celebrates the Commercialization of its New Canada Hydrogen Plant

19-Jun-2006 - Air Products Canada Ltd. celebrated the commercialization of its first hydrogen production facility to serve the Canadian refining industry with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Strathcona County near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Air Products' 71 million standard-cubic-feet-per-day (MMSCFD) hydrogen ...

Praxair Announces Contract with Pasadena Refining

02-Jun-2006 - Praxair, Inc. announced a long-term agreement with Pasadena Refining System, Inc. to provide hydrogen to its Pasadena, Texas, refinery starting in April 2007. The hydrogen will be supplied from Praxair's existing 310-mile Gulf Coast hydrogen system. Praxair's hydrogen pipeline system, is ...

Renewable Raw Materials

Glycerol produced in the fermentation of sugar is used in the synthesis of hydrocarbons

01-Jun-2006 - Petroleum and natural gas reserves, the most important starting materials for the chemical industry, are getting smaller and smaller. We clearly need alternatives and are scouring nature in the hope that renewable plant resources will eventually provide some real competition for fossil resources. ...

The Dow Chemical Company to Continue Collaboration with Millennium Cell

01-Jun-2006 - Millennium Cell Inc.announced that The Dow Chemical Company has elected to purchase $1.25 million of Millennium Cell's Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock under an option which became exercisable upon the achievement of the first milestone under the joint development agreement earlier this ...

Praxair Builds Peak-Shaving Hydrogen Storage System

26-Apr-2006 - Praxair, Inc. is constructing a hydrogen storage facility to enable peak shaving, which will be the first of its kind in the industrial gases industry. Located in Liberty County, Texas, the facility will utilize an underground storage cavern. The peak-shaving system will be integrated with ...

Nippon Polyurethane Industry Becomes Tosoh Subsidiary

Essential Move to Advancing Vinyl Isocyanate Operations

20-Apr-2006 - Tosoh Corporation announced that it will raise its stake in Nippon Polyurethane Industry Co. Ltd. (NPU) to 51% from the current 35% by acquiring NPU shares held by affiliate, Hodogaya Chemical Co. Ltd. The move further accelerates Tosoh's vinyl-isocyanate strategy and strengthens ties as the ...

Cerium Oxide Nanotubes Get Noticed

30-Mar-2006 - Chemists and materials scientists often study "nanotubes" - capsule-shaped molecules only a few nanometers in width. In nanotube form, many materials take on useful, unique properties, such as physical strength and excellent conductivity. Carbon nanotubes are the most widely investigated variety. ...

Linde and Shanghai Coking conclude long-term supply agreement with Bayer in China

23-Mar-2006 - The technology group Linde has, in cooperation with its Chinese joint venture partner, the Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corporation, concluded a long-term supply agreement with Bayer Polyurethane (Shanghai) Ltd. Co. The agreement, which covers the supply of hydrogen and carbon monoxide for a ...

Brookhaven Scientists Working Toward Practical Hydrogen-Storage Materials

17-Mar-2006 - Hydrogen-storage materials hold the promise of supporting many exciting new technologies, such as clean, efficient hydrogen fuel cells for automobiles. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists are working toward this goal by studying the basic mechanisms that ...