(Source: KBR Inc) HOUSTON - November 3, 2014 - KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has signed an agreement with Chiyoda Corporation, a leading engineering and construction firm in Japan, to license its CT-ACETICA™ technology. Chiyoda developed the CT-ACETICA process, a methanol-carbonylation process that uses methanol and carbon monoxide as feedstock to produce acetic acid. The process employs a heterogeneous catalyst for the efficient production of acetic acid. The process has tangible advantages including i) the easy-to-handle catalyst, ii) limited loss of precious rhodium, iii) efficient reactor, iv) low content of by-products, and v) relatively low...
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