The BlueWave LED Flood System for light-curable materials provides intensity, uniformity and repeatability in the curing process. With the system’s instant on/off capability, there are no mechanical shutter components, no warmup requirements, faster exposure cycles and lower maintenance costs, says…
Laboratories, such as those used for quality control in a production environment and those in research and development, are an integral part of the chemical process industries (CPI). Everyday demands of business can easily overtake safety when it comes to…
The chemical process industries (CPI) have many applications that require classifying or separating solid materials. Examples of separation or classification processes include those operations that attempt to isolate specific material fractions according to particle size, scalp off the coarse fraction…
The 2014 Nicholas P. Chopey Scholarship for Chemical Engineering Excellence has been awarded to Stephen Vitello, who is studying chemical engineering at The State University of New York College at Buffalo (www.buffalo.edu). Vitello is a member of Tau Beta Pi…
A Korean team has developed a carbon material that is as effective as graphene in applications, such as solar cells and semiconductor chips, using a process that requires only two steps instead of the usual eight. High-quality graphene is usually…
New software tools address common issues, such as disorganized data and a streamlined workforce, through the use of simplified methods of presenting information, alerts and suggested actions. These tools are designed to increase human reliability and make chemical processing facilities…
Scientists at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL; Morgantown, W. Va.; www.netl.doe.gov) have demonstrated a process for enhancing the efficiency of the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction. The process revolves around a magnesium hydroxide sorbent material that can remove CO2 from…
The organic compound 1,3-butadiene is a petrochemical commodity used as a raw material for the production of rubbers and plastics, such as polybutadiene rubber (PR), styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). These materials are mainly applied in…
No re-measurement is required with this shaft-alignment tool Elos Fixturlaser The EVO (photo) is an all-digital shaft-alignment tool with an adaptive user interface, which shows how a misaligned machine must be moved vertically or horizontally by adding or removing shims…
HydroFlow Coolant Recycling Systems (CRS) can recycle any water-miscible fluid to its maximum potential, thus minimizing disposal requirements and reducing usage of the fluid concentrate. These systems are available in four different sizes, the largest of which will meet the…