Equistar to Temporarily Idle Olefin Unit

Equistar Chemicals, LP, will temporarily idle the olefin unit at La Porte, Texas, due to declining market and economic conditions. The La Porte olefin unit is expected to remain out of service until early 2009. The plant has a nameplate capacity of 1.7 billion pounds per year of ethylene and 700 million pounds of propylene. “We have elected to... 

FDK’s ECM15P Series Ultra Capacitor Modules Offer Superior Thermal Performance and Long Life for Vehicles

FDK Corporation, a global electronic component and battery manufacturer, introduces the new ECM15P series EneCapTen ultra capacitor modules for use in vehicles. The ECM15P provides high power with long life and best-in-class thermal performance of up to 80 degrees Celsius. FDK will be exhibiting its ultra capacitors and other electronic products at... 

New Challenges and Opportunities in Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Vehicle-to-Grid Power: Challenges and Opportunities” report to their offering. The 1st Edition of Vehicle-to-Grid Power: Challenges and Opportunities is a 38-page report which seeks to pull together information on the current status of V2G power into a comprehensive overview to provide... 

Yingli Green Energy and TUV Rheinland Sign Strategic Partnership MOU

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with TÜV Rheinland (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. to form a strategic partnership covering a range of quality control initiatives at the Company. Under... 

Yingli Green Energy’s Principal Operating Subsidiary Receives Additional Credit Line from China Eximbank

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) product manufacturers, today announced that it’s principle operating subsidiary, Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd. (“Tianwei Yingli”), has entered into a new credit line trade finance facility agreement (the... 

CalMotors’ Green Performance ECU Powers the eRuf from Ruf Automobile

CalMotors, makers of power electronics and embedded systems for hybrid and electric vehicles, announced that interest in its electronic control unit (ECU) and its electromagnetic interference (EMI) reduction system has increased dramatically since the release of the first electric Porsche developed by Ruf Automobile in Germany. Ruf Automobile chose... 

TU Munich officially launches Dr. A. Kuntze measurement

The problem: The cooling water of the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) of the Technical University Munich in Garching is treated with a biocide to prevent microbial contamination. The photometric online measuring system used up to now was considered to demanding with regard to cost and maintenance and should be replaced by a lowmaintenance... 

Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Kenneth I. Juster to Advise Sunovia Energy Technologies

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Kenneth I. Juster has agreed to serve as a senior advisor on the company’s advisory board. Under Secretary Juster will provide strategic counseling and assistance on a range of issues relating to public policy and international commerce. Sunovia, an early-stage... 

The Linde Group is to build a new air separation plant in the border region next to Basel

The technology group The Linde Group, via its Swiss subsidiary PanGas AG, is to build a new air separation plant in Muttenz, in the Swiss canton of Basel-Land, for around 68 million Swiss francs (44 million euro). The new plant, which will have a capacity of over 500 tons of liquefied nitrogen, oxygen and argon per day will come on stream in the late... 

Energy Focus, Inc. Finalizes Full-Service Contract With Great Lakes Cold Storage

Energy Focus, Inc., the global leader in energy-efficient lighting technologies, announced today that the company has finalized a multi-phase contract with Great Lakes Cold Storage, a regional refrigerated foods company. The contract — the first to be finalized under Energy Focus’s new full-service energy solutions program — includes...