Nitrogen & Methanol articles from March 1999

Nitrogen & Methanol archives from March 1999

Clean air, dirty politics.(MTBE's ban as fuel additive in California)(Editorial)
March 1, 1999... So it is now official: the MTBE industry has lost its long fight, and the compound will be banned as a fuel additive in California by 2002. The move will devastate an MTBE industry already suffering both from overcapacity and prices that are...

Methanol: market fairly stable in quiet trading.
March 1, 1999... As the New Year began, natural gas prices in the US Gulf for January 1999 fell below $2.00/mmBtu from above that level the previous month. Barring a change for the colder in the North American weather, it was not expected that natural gas...

Methanol in Trinidad and Venezuela.
March 1, 1999... Trinidad is now the world's second largest exporter of methanol, and Venezuela has plans to double its own production. Nitrogen & Methanol concludes its round-up of the Caribbean with a look at the future of the region as a methanol hub. ...

Nitrogen '99 conference report.
March 1, 1999... The Nitrogen '99 International Conference and Exhibition, organised by British Sulphur Publishing was held at the Hotel Tamanaco Inter-Continental, Caracas, Venezuela, from Sunday 28th February to Tuesday 2nd March 1999. Caracas hosted the...

Steam reforming catalysts in methanol plants.
March 1, 1999... Reforming of natural gas to produce a synthesis gas for methanol production has been done for more than forty years. Initially, reforming was done at low pressures and high steam/carbon (s/c) ratios to produce a methanol make up gas (MUG) that...

Grassroots success with KAAP.(Kellogg Brown and Root's Advanced Ammonia Process)
March 1, 1999... Rick Strait of Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) reports on two new 1,850 t/d ammonia plants that were started up in 1998. Both plants use KBR's KAAP ammonia technology. In 1998, two new grassroots ammonia plants using KBR Advanced Ammonia...

Maximising output from a single train.
March 1, 1999... World-scale ammonia plants have been getting bigger. Producers want to take advantage of the economies of scale offered by larger capacities. Single-train outputs of 2,000 t/d are already possible and technology providers are looking at the...