CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT
KBR, Inc. | March 25, 2022
KBR and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC have collaborated on propane dehydrogenation technology. The collaboration is to bring significant advancements to the technology. Under the collaboration, the new propriety catalyst technology of ExxonMobil will be combined with KBR's proprietary K-PRO℠ Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) technology to convert propane into propylene. The integrated technology solution will offer financial savings according to the current economic status worldwide. In addition, the superior performance of ExxonMobil's new catalyst will add as a powerful catalyst for enhancing the process and financial savings.
"The collaboration with ExxonMobil is exciting for new K-PRO customers and existing K-PRO licensees who could potentially increase capacity and reduce operating expenses by upgrading to the new catalyst. This combined technology offering will significantly reduce energy consumption and add to KBR's growing portfolio of sustainable solutions."
Doug Kelly, KBR President, Technology
On the same point, James Ritchie, President of ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC, also says,
"KBR's K-PRO technology and our next generation catalyst are a great fit and our collaboration with KBR. It will significantly help to reduce the time to commercialize our next-generation catalyst for PDH.
The most important part of this collaboration is that the cooperation brings together over 50 years of ExxonMobil's innovative leadership in developing specialty catalysts and KBR's leadership in technology development, plant design, and construction.
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CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
A&R Logistics, | May 27, 2021
A&R Logistics, North America's leading supply chain services company to the chemical industry, announced today it has started operations at its new liquid chemical transloading station in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, near Charleston. this is the first-of-its-kind transloading station for the company and will help clients more seamlessly manage the global distribution of the product.
A&R opened its Charleston export facility in November 2020 where it packages, exports, and imports plastic resin and other materials for some of the world's largest chemical companies.
A&R has a 160-feet liquid transload track surrounding the facility that can load ISO tank containers and bulk domestic trailers from rail cars. Up to three ISO tanks can be loaded at a time. The loading process takes only about one hour.
"Our new liquid chemical transloading station is yet another way A&R offers customers a full-service supply chain solution," said Chris Ball, A&R President. "We can now safely and efficiently move bulk chemical product from railcar to ISO tank to port to customer. This benefits customers from a cost, speed, and safety perspective with fewer touch-points along the supply chain."
The new transloading station also provides the advantage of the A&R's relationship with CSX for customers' rail and intermodal needs. With its proximity to the Port of Charleston, which is served by all major shipping lines, plastics producers have a strategic global access point to global markets.
About A&R Logistics
A&R Logistics, Inc. is a leading supply chain services company providing dry bulk and liquid chemical transportation services, warehousing & packaging, distribution, export, and third-party logistics solutions to multinational companies within the chemical industry. A&R provides a comprehensive suite of services including over-the-road transportation, transloading, packaging, warehousing, and end-to-end outsourced transportation management through a nationwide network of facilities, a combination of company-owned equipment, and owner-operators, and a non-asset-based transportation management division.
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CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
Agilyx Patent | September 14, 2021
Agilyx Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS (Euronext Growth (Oslo): and a pioneer in the chemical recycling of post-use plastics has been granted a patent continuation for its process of breaking down waste polystyrene into its chemical building block, styrene monomer. The continuation of US patent number 11,041,123 further confirms Agilyx's depolymerization technology extends to the breaking down of all waste plastic polymers into their respective discrete monomers and is not only limited to polystyrene. This patent demonstrates the versatility of Agilyx's innovation portfolio while continuing to advance its position as a leader in the depolymerization of waste plastics.
"This patent continuation demonstrates the robustness and versatility of the Agilyx technology, not restricting our claims to polystyrene to styrene monomer; thereby, expanding our patent coverage to depolymerization of polymers back to the monomer level, enabling greater circularity for more plastics," stated Dr. Chris Faulkner, CTO at Agilyx. "Essentially, our process has not changed. We are using the same technology on the same machinery, though it may be operated in a slightly different way depending on the polymer. The recognition that this technology applies to a broader range of polymers is an exciting advancement in our mission to increase recycling and circularity of post-use plastics."
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