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DES PLAINES, Ill., Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that Dr. Santi Kulprathipanja has been selected to receive the 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) Gerhold Award. Kulprathipanja was recognized for the development of process technology used to produce a key ingredient for polyester and food packaging. "Santi is one of UOP's most distinguished researchers. He currently holds 112 patents, which is the...

They contain hydrocarbons including benzene In a new study, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health have shown that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking may contribute to acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites. "Our data show that it is important to include air pollution in the national dialogue on natural gas development that has focused largely on water exposures to hydraulic fracturing," said Lisa McKenzie,...

Several new studies of air and water near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill conclude that cleanup workers may have escaped harm from one of the most worrisome groups of potentially toxic substances in the oil, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (CEN), ACS's weekly news magazine. But it cites concerns that another group of potentially harmful chemicals did escape from the water and could create a health hazard for cleanup workers. The article, by C&EN...

On June 16, 2011, Scott Monroe, a 20 year old resident of Roxana, Illinois filed a leukemia personal injury lawsuit in the Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Madison County, Illinois, Scott Monore v. Shell Oil Company et al., Case No. 11-L- 577, against Shell Oil Company, and BP Products North America, Inc, alleging he developed acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) as a result of benzene released into the groundwater, ground, and air in and around his home and the high school, middle...

Mahannare Harris and her family, represented by Dickman Law Office, PSC named Texaco in a lawsuit [Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court, Case No.09-CR-1175] on June 12, 2011, seeking damages for contaminating the soil and groundwater beneath their Newport, Kentucky home. Newport, KY USA (PRWEB) June 16, 2011 Mahanarre Harris, her husband and their five children thought they had achieved the American dream- owning their own home. But that dream soon turned into a nightmare. According...

BRUSSELS, February 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Commission has just announced its decision to ban the fragrance material Musk xylene under the new European Chemicals Legislation REACH, bringing EU regulations in line with the global IFRA Standards. The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) voluntarily banned Musk xylene through the IFRA Standards, part of the fragrance industry's global self-regulatory program contained in the IFRA Code of Practice. The material...

HOUSTON, Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) announces the completion of the 2011 World Toluene & Mixed Xylenes Analysis, an annual global study that covers historical trends and future projections for supply, demand, production, capacity, trade, pricing and profitability of the global toluene, mixed xylenes, metaxylene and orthoxylene industries for the period of 2005 to 2015. Included with each analysis is 12 months access to CMAI's online capacity...

DES PLAINES, Ill., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that HC Petrochem Co., Ltd. has selected UOP to provide technology for an expansion of its petrochemicals plant in Daesan, South Korea. HC Petrochem Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Japan's Cosmo Oil and South Korea's Hyundai Oilbank, will use the UOP Parex(TM) process and the UOP Isomar(TM) process to help triple production of high-purity para-xylene to support growing,...

If you smoke, your breath contains 2,5-dimethylfuran. A team of Catalan researchers have proved that the presence of this chemical compound indicates that a person has smoked in the last three days. This substance does not appear in the breath of non-smokers, unless they have been in direct contact with tobacco smoke for a long time."2,5-dimethylfuran cannot be detected in breath samples of non-smokers, meaning that the only way to know if a person has smoked in the last 72 hours is to...

LONDON, April 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand on Paraxylene in Europe has been affected by the global downturn. The market ground to a standstill in late 2008 and production was reduced. An expected slow recovery in demand will lead to excess capacity worldwide of nearly 11.5m tones/year in a market of 28.8m tones/year in 2011. Demand from Central Europe will also increase from around 2010 to feed increased PTA production. Paraxylene (PX) is the largest volume isomer of the mixed...