Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Wastewater may not be exactly wonderful, but it is certainly fashionable. The global market for industrial water and wastewater equipment is…
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Explosion prevention must be a primary objective wherever the process of transferring powders into flammable solvents is utilized, irrelevant of the…
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information  The Chem Show, North America’s largest process equipment and technology exhibition, will return to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from…
Throughout the +100-year history of the chemical engineering profession, there have been numerous examples of a single individual making a breakthrough discovery or contributing a key theory to the field. The awareness of such “single-handed” contributions, however, has certainly diminished…
Mixing is one of the oldest unit operations in the chemical process industries (CPI) and can also be one of the most demanding. The complex challenges presented by the wide variety of mixing tasks and scaleup needs encountered…
Glycerin has over 1,500 known end uses, including applications in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food products, with the U.S. market alone demanding around 600-million lb/yr. But over the next two years, biodiesel plants are expected to produce an additional…
Kermit the Frog once said, “It isn’t easy being green.” While this may be true, industry is still making the effort. Both in the U.S. and abroad, processors are not only striving to produce environmentally friendly products, but…
ISA Expo, the largest automation and control exhibition in North America, will return to Houston’s Reliant Center on October 2–4. The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA, Research Triangle Park, N.C.) hosts this exhibition of automation and control…
Today’s chemical process industries (CPI) are riding on the tails of the best four-year stretch that the global economy has seen since the late 1960s or early 1970s. Engineering workloads in North America have at least tripled in the last…
Multivariable (MV) control is a powerful technology. Applied in industry for several decades now, substantial benefits from its use have been reported in many publications. Yet, this technique is still by far not utilized to the extent it…