Company News

Mosaic Materials, a chemical and engineering company, has made significant progress on a unique process that uses Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to separate carbon dioxide from air or flue gas.

Capstone Turbine Corporation has secured an order to provide 1.2 megawatts (MW) of energy to power a triethylene glycol (TEG) dehydration facility in the Basra region of Iraq using two C600 Signature Series microturbines.

Maestro Digital Mine has launched a digital IIoT solution, the Zephyr AQS. The compact, low cost environmental air quality monitoring station is designed for underground mines.The Zephyr AQ IIoT device connects directly to an industrial network without requiring expensive and complex programmable logic controllers and analog based instruments.

Empowering Women in Industry will be hosting an awards gala to close the one-day conference on September 26th, 2019 at the Chicago Athletic Hotel.

The Gorgon gas project in the state of Western Australia was built by Chevron in 2016, and produces 25 million metric tons of natural gas and up to 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

BP’s Group Chief Executive, Bob Dudley, spoke on climate issues during London's Chatham House Corporate Leaders series. Dudley set out the necessary components in order to achieve a net-zero emissions world, including:    • Zero-carbon heat and power, provided largely by renewables and supported by decarbonized gas, including the use of carbon capture use and storage (CCUS).• Electric and hydrogen-powered cars on the roads and the skies and seas navigated by planes and ships powered by biofuels and hydrogen.• A circular economy over the throw-away culture.• Nature's power harnessed to reduce emissions through planting trees and nurturing peatlands.

The FLIR ONE Pro LT has been awarded the 2019 Product of the Year by Electrical Construction and Maintenance Magazine (EC&M) in the Portable Test & Measurement Equipment category.

BHP recently announced a five-year, $400 million USD Climate Investment Program that will develop technologies for emission reduction in its own operations and those generated from the use of its resources.“Over the next five years this program will scale up low carbon technologies critical to the decarbonization of our operations.

Robert Bosch GmbH announced a sweeping plan to completely eliminate emissions that will impact 400 sites worldwide. The company intends to become carbon neutral by next year, starting a race for companies to start using more green power, ramp up energy savings and offset emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing away with a policy that allows pollution enforcement officials to drop in unannounced for inspections at power and chemical plants.In a July 11 memo shared with EPA, regional administrators outlined a new enforcement policy that would do away with surprise inspections tactics.The new policy would stop agency officials from conducting inspections at facilities without giving prior notice to the states involved, as a way to increase communication between agencies, states, and regulatory bodies.“A ‘no surprises' principle is the foundation of joint work planning and will minimize the misunderstandings that can be caused by the lack of regular, bilateral communication,” wrote Susan Bodine, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assistance in the memo.