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Shell and tube heat exchanger

A shell and tube heat exchanger is a device in which one fluid flows through a bundle of tubes while another flows around them in a shell, transferring heat.

Shell Chemicals

Shell Chemicals is the petrochemicals business of Shell plc, founded in 1929, which produces base, intermediate, and performance chemicals for about 1,000 industrial customers worldwide.

Shell Coal Gasification Process

The Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP) is an oxygen-blown coal gasification technology developed by Shell that converts dried pulverized coal into synthesis gas at high temperature and pressure.

Shell MDS

Shell MDS, short for Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis, is a Shell gas-to-liquids plant in Bintulu, Malaysia, opened in 1993 as the world's first commercial-scale GTL plant.

Shell method (program verification)

The shell method is a refinement-based proof technique for interactive theorem proving in which a generic correctness theorem is proved once and instantiated with concrete data structures.

Shell Midstream Partners

Shell Midstream Partners was a Shell master limited partnership, formed in 2014 to own pipelines serving the US Gulf Coast and Midwest, taken fully private by Shell in 2022.

Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company is the American subsidiary of Shell plc, established in 1912, now operating as Shell USA with roughly 12,000 fuel stations and major Gulf of Mexico production.

Shell plc

Shell plc, also known as Royal Dutch Shell, is a British oil and gas and petrochemical company headquartered in London, employing around 85,000 people in over 70 countries.

Shell V-Power

Shell V-Power, or V-Power, is Shell's brand of premium performance fuels, a high-octane gasoline and diesel first sold in Singapore in 2000 and used in Scuderia Ferrari's Formula 1 race fuel.

Shell-Mex

Shell-Mex is best known through Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, a British joint venture of Shell and BP that marketed their products in the UK from 1932 to 1976.

Shelley K. Lavender

Shelley K. Lavender is a retired American aerospace executive who was president of Boeing Military Aircraft and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Shellshock (software bug)

Shellshock, also called the Bash bug or Bashdoor, is a family of critical security vulnerabilities in the GNU Bash Unix shell first disclosed in September 2014.

Shellsort

Shellsort is an in-place comparison sorting algorithm that improves on insertion sort by sorting elements a shrinking gap apart, published by Donald Shell in 1959.

Shen Lin

Shen Lin, born 1931 in Xiamen, China, is a mathematician and computer scientist who spent his career at Bell Labs and co-created the Lin–Kernighan heuristic.

Shenergy

Shenergy (申能) is a wholly state-owned energy conglomerate based in Shanghai, China, founded in 1987 and supervised by Shanghai SASAC. It supplies roughly one-third of the city's electricity.

Sheng Xu

Sheng Xu is a biomedical engineer who develops soft, stretchable wearable ultrasound devices for health monitoring, and joined Stanford University as a tenured professor in 2025.

ShengBTE

ShengBTE is a free-software Fortran program, first released in 2014, that predicts the lattice thermal conductivity of crystalline solids from first principles by solving the phonon Boltzmann transport equation.

Shengli Dongying power station

Shengli Dongying power station (中石化胜利东营电厂), known as the Shengli Power Plant, is a coal-fired captive power and heating station in Dongying, Shandong, serving the Shengli Oilfield.

Shengli Field

Shengli Field (胜利油田), also known as Shengli Oilfield, is a large oilfield in the Yellow River Delta of Shandong province, China. Discovered in 1961, it is operated by Sinopec and commonly described as China's second-largest oilfield.

Shengli No.1 Open-Pit Coal Mine

Shengli No.1 Open-Pit Coal Mine (胜利一号露天矿) is a large open-pit lignite coal mine about 6 km from Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, with an approved capacity of 28 million tonnes per year.

Shengshu Technology

Shengshu Technology (生数科技) is a Beijing generative AI startup founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua professor Zhu Jun, best known for its Vidu video model.

Shengshu Technology Series B

Shengshu Technology's Series B was a nearly 2 billion yuan funding round led by Alibaba Cloud in April 2026 for the Beijing-based AI video startup behind Vidu.

Shenguang laser facility

The Shenguang (神光, Divine Light) laser facilities are a series of Chinese high-power laser drivers for inertial confinement fusion, operated by institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai and CAEP in Mianyang.

Shengyi Technology

Shengyi Technology (生益科技) is a Chinese manufacturer of copper-clad laminate, the base material for printed circuit boards, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong.

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical (神华包头煤化工) operates the world's first commercial coal-to-olefins plant, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, converting coal to 600,000 tonnes of ethylene and propylene yearly since 2010.

Shenhua Bulianta Coal Mine

Shenhua Bulianta Coal Mine (补连塔煤矿) is a large underground thermal coal mine in Inner Mongolia, China, owned by China Shenhua Energy and reported in 2007 as the world's largest underground mine.

Shenhua Group

Shenhua Group (神华集团有限责任公司) was a Chinese state-owned coal and energy company that was China's largest coal producer around 2007, and merged with China Guodian in 2017 to form China Energy Investment.

Shenhua Guoneng Dajing power station

Shenhua Guoneng Dajing power station is an operating coal-fired power station in Dajing, Qitai County, Xinjiang, China, with two 660 MW ultra-supercritical units that entered commercial operation in 2023.

Shenhua Guoneng Hami power station

Shenhua Guoneng Hami power station, also known as Shenhua Hami Dananhu power station, is a 2,640 MW coal-fired plant in Hami, Xinjiang, China, commissioned in 2015.

Shenhua Heidaigou Surface Coal Mine

The Shenhua Heidaigou Surface Coal Mine (黑岱沟露天煤矿) is a large open-pit coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, operating since 1999 with annual capacity of 34 million tons.