cpp NEWS Pump search 4.0 SUCCESSFUL KICK-OFF OF STAR PUMP ALLIANCE Process Industries Academy SIEMENS AND BENTLEY ARE TEAMING UP Picture: Daniela Held At Achema the founding of the Star Pump Alliance was announced officially “We did not expect such great popularity and so much positive feedback”, says Kai Stegemann, Managing Director of Star Pump Alliance GmbH, still impressed by the successful kick-off of the Star Pump Alliance (SPA) at Achema 2018. Both target groups of pump users and numerous manufacturers were more than pleased with the information platform. The aim of the www.starpumpalliance.com portal is to make it easier for professional pump users to select the individually suitable pump technologyfortheir application. In addition to comprehensive information on industries, applications and technologies, the platform offers many helpful tools for individual pump selection as well as a manufacturer-independent digital technology selector. The digital technology selector suggests one or more suitable pump technologies forthe website visitor’s application on the basis of the application characteristics he or she has entered. The portal is backed by numerous well-known pump manufacturers, including the founding members Netzsch, Edur and Hermetic. Picture: Siemens Siemens’ Process Industries and Drives and Digital Factories divisions are teaming up with Bentley Systems’ Bentley Institute to establish a Process Industries Academy that will support the companies’ joint vision for cloud services and digital workflows in engineering and operations. The Process Industries Academy will help organisations to better understand and develop an effective digital strategy across all aspects of the asset lifecycle. The academies are strategically located in Karlsruhe, Germany, Houston, Texas/USA, and Shanghai, China, to support the process industry worldwide. The first academy session is scheduled for November 14, 2018 in Karlsruhe at Siemens Process Automation World. A half-day preview of theProcess Industries Academy will be featured during Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference in London on Monday, October 15. Siemens and Bentley Systems drive digital enterprise forward cpp NEWS TICKER GEA delivers for BP gas plant in Egypt GEA has delivered two centrifuges for monoethylene glycol (MEG) purification at BP’s West Nile Delta offshore natural gas field in Egypt. The project represents an important new customer for GEA in its expanding MEG treatment business. MEG is used to protect gas pipelines from corrosion and blockage. The centrifuge package was delivered to BP’s gas treatment plant near the port of Alexandria. Its two WSD 200 centrifugal separators run in parallel 24 hours a day to deliver excellent sepa - ration performance and reliable operation on a single skid measuring 12 x 7 x 6 m. Clariant opens production facilities in China Clariant opened two new, fullyowned additives facilities at its site in Zhenjiang, China. This completes a multi-million CHF investment originally announced in Picture: Clariant 2017 and puts Clariant’s additives business in China on track to further expand its offering of customised, high-end solutions forthe plastics, coatings & ink industries. The newly opened facilities are dedicated to the production of Ceridust micronised waxes and Addworks synergistic additive solutions, both of which are used in various applications. Services for Ex protection For almost a century, R. Stahl has been setting trends in the field of safety technologyfor hazardous areas. As a result, the company has founded the new business unit “Services”. This unit will focus on product-independent services in operational and plant safety. This includes the already established range of seminars in the setup phase as well as new services forthe inspection management of security-critical areas in plants. For the services relating to inspection management R. Stahl cooperates with the engineering and IT company AGU from Leverkusen (Germany), which developed the PEC inspection software. Thomas Herrmann has taken on the role of vice president of the new business unit “Services”. 6 cpp 03-2018
Highly-integrated chemical production site in Guangdong BASF INVESTIGATES FURTHER INVESTMENT IN CHINA Picture: BASF Third-largest BASF site globally would be built in South Chinese province of Guangdong BASF is investigating the possibility of building a highly-integrated chemical production site in the South Chinese province of Guangdong. Martin Brudermüller, BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Lin Shaochun, Executive Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding in Berlin, in the presence of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The site in Guangdong would be BASF’s largest investment and would be operated under the sole responsibility of BASF. China – with a world market share of around 40 % – is the largest chemical market, and dominates the growth of the global chemical production. The investment is estimated to reach up to 10 billion US$ by comple- tion of the project around 2030. The first plants could be completed by 2026 at the latest. In the initial phase, the BASF project would include petrochemical plants – the heart of the well-established Verbund system. A steam cracker with a planned capacity of 1 million t/a of ethylene would be the starting point of the value chains at the new integrated site. In the next phases, plants for more consumer-oriented products and solutions would be built, to serve sectors like transportation or consumer goods. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium. Picture: Dürr Picture: Thyssenkrupp Environmental technology business expanded DÜRR ACQUIRES B&W SUBSIDIARIES IN THE U.S. Dr. Jochen Weyrauch, Member of the Board of Dürr AG Thyssenkrupp is building in Hungary MAJOR ORDER FOR NEW CHEMICAL COMPLEX Thyssenkrupp will construct the turnkey plant complex on a 550,000 m 2 site Thyssenkrupp’s Industrial Solutions business area has received a major order to build a new, integrated chemical complex in Hungary. The customer forthe project is the MOL Group, a leading international oil and Dürr is forming a leading supplier of environmental technology systems for industrial exhaust-air purification. The Group is acquiring the industrial environmental technology business of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W). The purchase agreement comprises the acquisition of the three B&W subsidiaries, Megtec LLC, Megtec Holdings Inc. and Universal Inc. The purchase price amounts to around 110 million euros. “Through this acquisition, we are establishing a leading company with sales of around 400 million euros and the broadest technology and service range in the market”, says Dr. Jochen Weyrauch of the Dürr Board of Management. gas company from Hungary. The contracts forthe engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the new plant complex were signed on September 12, 2018 in Budapest. MOL is investing a total of around 1.2 billion euros in the new plant complex. The project is part of the MOL 2030 growth strategy under which the company is developing new value chains in the petrochemical sector. The complex with an annual production capacity of 200,000 t of polyether polyol is scheduled to go into operation in 2021. It will make MOL the only integrated producer of polyether polyols in Central and Eastern Europe. The complex is being built in Tiszaújváros in northern Hungary. Modern competence centre FREUDENBERG EXPANDS TESTING LABORATORY In the newly named “Filtration Science Lab”, Freudenberg Filtration Technologies will continue testing and investigating products forthe automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Filters have been put to the test here for more than five decades. In the course of a two-stage renovation, what used to be a filter laboratory has become a modern and innovative competence centre. The sum invested is in the six-figure range. Innovative products are tested here in a facility that extends to around 1000 m², and is equipped with more than 20 test benches. The test benches and the substances used comply with all standards. In addition, the laboratory team carries out defined incoming goods inspections of the materials used, for example, the nonwoven filter medium or the activated carbon that binds odors and gases. Particularly selected filters are scanned before delivery to detect any pos - sible damage. Last but not least, the product development team calls on the services of the laboratory when it comes to testing filter innovations or optimised products. The test benches are also connected to the laboratory’s IT infrastructure. Measurement results are fed directly into the company’s internal network and can be exchanged internationally. The coordination of filter measurement technology at all locations is centrally coordinated in Weinheim. Further laboratories are located in Hopkinsville USA, Suzhou, China, and Pyeongtaek in South Korea. cpp 03-2018 7
