Chemical Engineering » environmental http://www.chemengonline.com Chemical Engineering essentials for the global chemical processing industries (CPI) Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 Eye on Flare Systems http://www.chemengonline.com/eye-on-flare-systems/ http://www.chemengonline.com/eye-on-flare-systems/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2017 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/?p=135408 Proper gas sampling is essential to meet operating and regulatory objectives Flares are used extensively in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities and petroleum refineries, to combust flammable hazardous

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/eye-on-flare-systems/feed/ 0 President Obama signs the Lautenberg Act into law http://www.chemengonline.com/president-obama-signed-the-lautenberg-act-into-law/ http://www.chemengonline.com/president-obama-signed-the-lautenberg-act-into-law/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:14:50 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/?p=123227 On June 22, 2016, President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law. The bipartisan bill brings significant changes to the 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).  Details can be found on the website for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by clicking on the following link: ( https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/frank-r-lautenberg-chemical-safety-21st-century-act).

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/president-obama-signed-the-lautenberg-act-into-law/feed/ 0 Microbes make a meal of PET http://www.chemengonline.com/microbes-make-meal-pet/ http://www.chemengonline.com/microbes-make-meal-pet/#comments Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/microbes-make-meal-pet/ Research groups at Keio University (Hiyoshi; www.bio.keio.ac.jp/labs/kmiyamoto) and Kyoto Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Teijin Ltd. and Adeka Corp., have discovered a bacterium that can

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