I read your article “Flooded Condenser Controls: Principle and Troubleshooting” [ Chem. Eng., January 2016, pp. 37–49]. The article was very informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I need your guidance related to Figure 4b. In the…
Thank you for writing this article [Engineering Ethics Survey: What’s Your Opinion?, Chem. Eng. October 2015, pp. 50–55]. Many of us, as we proceed through our careers, are faced with some difficult choices, which can have quite an impact on…
The preliminary value for the June 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued the trend of small monthly declines since the beginning of the year. The June CEPCI is 3.1% lower than the corresponding value from…
The 2015 Nicholas P. Chopey Scholarship for Chemical Engineering Excellence has been awarded to Stephanie Kong, a student at the University of Buffalo (www.buffalo.edu), who is majoring in both chemical engineering and Spanish. Kong is a member of Tau Beta…
The preliminary value for the May 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued the trend of small monthly declines since the beginning of the year. The May CEPCI is 2.4% lower than the corresponding value from…
The preliminary value for the April 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued the trend of small monthly declines since the beginning of the year. The April CEPCI is 1.8% lower than the corresponding value from…
The Program Committee of the International Society of Automation’s (ISA) 15th Annual Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) Fugitive Emissions Symposium has issued a Call for Presenters, inviting professionals in the air-compliance field to submit abstracts for presentation consideration at the…
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced that Cheryl Teich, reaction engineering expertise area leader at The Dow Chemical Company (Dow; Midland, Mich.), becomes president of the organization in 2015. President-elect Gregory Stephanopoulos, the W.H. Dow Professor of…
The preliminary value for the October CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) declined slightly (0.05%) from the final September value, reversing the increasing trend that has been observed for the past six months. The Equipment subindex saw…