January 10, 2023

U.S. EPA tightens soot standards for first time in decade

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will tighten national air quality standards for fine particle pollution emitted from vehicles and industrial sources for the first time since 2012.

The solution bridge that bonds wind energy and refineries

Procuring new fasteners is nice, but customers are also able to have their torque-based products, with torque-based problems, converted to tension-based load indicating solutions.

Chart Industries and BNG Clean Fuel announce MOU

Chart Industries, Inc. and BNG Clean Fuel Corporation announced they executed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Chart to supply the hydrogen liquefaction process technology, associated equipment as well as a series of hydrogen fuelling stations.

Linde buys out stake in one of the largest U.S. independent packaged gas distributors

Linde has acquired the remaining interests in nexAir, LLC, one of the largest independent packaged gas distributors in the United States with 2022 sales of approximately $400 million. Read More

Raven SR, Chevron and Hyzon Motors collaborate to produce hydrogen from green waste in Northern California

To produce the hydrogen, the project is expected to divert up to 99 wet tons of green and food waste per day from Republic Services’ West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill into its non-combustion Steam/CO₂ Reforming process, producing up to 2,400 metric-tons per year of renewable hydrogen. Read More

Refining capacity: What’s been lost is being recovered, just in different places

Total refining capacity, the maximum volume of crude oil that refineries can process, and the location of that capacity, have an impact on the price and availability of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels. Read More

PPIM: 35th Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference™

Since 1989, attendance at the annual PPIM Conference and Exhibition in Houston has grown from a few hundred to more than 3,500, including a commercial exhibition that began with a handful of specialized solution-providers and which now involves more than 190 companies and industry organizations from more than 25 countries. Read More

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How to manage the complexity of fair overtime distribution

Overtime is a vital component of smoothly running operations, but industries affected by the ongoing skilled labor shortage can’t afford to ignore the impact overtime has on employee job satisfaction. Understanding fair overtime distribution and implementing a process to ensure equal access to overtime hours is crucial to safeguarding employee retention at your plant. Read More

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