Nitrogen & Methanol articles from January 1998

Nitrogen & Methanol archives from January 1998

What's in a name? (Nitrogen magazine renamed Nitrogen and Methanol)(Editorial)
January 1, 1998... As you will have seen from our new front cover, with this issue, Nitrogen magazine has become Nitrogen and Methanol. For those of you who are puzzling over this change, we would like to take this opportunity to explain why has this been done and...

Methanol: plant outages continue to keep prices firm. (methanol market reports)
January 1, 1998... Spot natural gas prices in the US Gulf continued to increase in October, jumping by about $0.57/mmBtu, or 21.5%. The reasons for this included unexpected nuclear plant maintenance and the depletion of older gas wells before new ones could be...

Qatar: next Methanex mega-complex will be at Ras Laffan. (Methanex Corp., Ras Laffan, Qatar)
January 1, 1998... Methanex has announced plans to construct a massive 3m t/a methanol production complex at Ras Laffan in Qatar. A memorandum of understanding has been signed with the Qatar General Petroleum Company (QGPC) for a 51:49% joint venture project, with...

Do the tigers face extinction? (impact of economic downturn on Southeast Asian fertilizer industry)
January 1, 1998... Southeast Asia, once the powerhouse of the global economy, has seemingly staggered from crisis to crisis during 1997, and 1998 has seen no let-up in the region's economic problems. Will the currency crisis impact upon the fertilizer industries in...

Opportunities are there for the taking. (1997 World Methanol Conference) (includes related article on the direct methanol fuel cell exhibit)
January 1, 1998... The world methanol industry gathered in Tampa, Florida last December in a more upbeat mood than for some time, buoyed by the prospect of methanol use as an automotive fuel in the next decade. Nitrogen & Methanol was them to report on the new...

New options for modernising your urea plant.
January 1, 1998... Nitrogen & Methanol takes a look at some of today's popular choices for urea plant revamping, as well as different process technologies. Modern urea plants must comply with increasing demands worldwide for higher environmental standards, while...

Italian know-how. (Snamprogetti urea process)
January 1, 1998... The Snamprogetti urea process was first introduced in the 1960s. Since then, over 90 urea plants around the world have been designed based on Snamprogetti technology, with plant sizes ranging from 150 to 2350 mt/d and a total production capacity...

Zero discharge is no problem. (Apache Nitrogen Products Inc.'s usage of wastewater evaporators known as Brine Concentrators)
January 1, 1998... Faced with wastewater disposal problems, Apache Nitrogen opted to mechanically evaporate and thereby clean up its wastewater for reuse in the plant. Brine Concentration offers a novel and cost-effective alternative to other disposal technologies....

Catalyst symposium. (Sud-Chemie AG's 1997 catalyst symposium in Munich, Germany)
January 1, 1998... Sud-Chemie held its second European catalyst symposium in Munich from November 23-25 last year. The Sud-Chemie AG catalyst group has various affiliates, the largest of which is United Catalysts International (UCI) in Louisville, Kentucky....