Everyone knows that engineers are good with numbers. We can measure, calculate, tabulate, and report results accurately. But after you take pains to get the numbers right in your reports, sales brochures, or capital expenditure requests, readers in…
NORTH AMERICA Comsol User Conference 2006. Comsol, Inc. (Burlington, Mass.). Phone: 781-273-3322; Fax: 781-273-6603; Web: comsol.com Boston, Mass. Oct. 22-24 2006 International Water Conference. Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Phone: 412-261-0710, Fax: 412-261-1606; Web: eswp.com/water…
Messer Group GmbH (Krefeld, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-531) has commercialized a liquid-nitrogen- (LNâ‚‚) based process for purifying exhaust air that contains high (100–1,000 g/m3) loads of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or solvents. Unlike incineration (which can have problems, such as dioxin formation, with chlorinated…
This fall, Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-541), plans to start up a 70,000-m.t./yr plant for producing acrylonitrile (AN) at its 100% subsidiary Tongsuh Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., (Ulsan, South Korea). The plant will be a renovation of an existing…
Chemical engineering and, perhaps to a lesser degree, other kinds of engineering are topics of intense interest to contemporary ethicists and philosophers. In many cases, this scrutiny has been triggered by unfortunate safety or pollution incidents from the…
If your estimate for a project's capital cost is too high or too low, incomplete or wrong, a poorly developed scope is the mostly likely cause. In almost all cases, project cost estimating is more accurate than the…
NORTH AMERICA ISCST 2006: 13th International Coating Science and Technology Symposium. The Tiara Group (Ojai, Calif.). Phone: 805-659-2298; Fax: 805-659-1493; Web: iscst.org Denver, Colo. Sept. 11-13 Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo. Reliabilityweb.com (Fort Myers, Fla.). Phone: 305-735-3746; Fax:…
If leadership ability corresponded to IQ levels, every engineer would be a contender for the coveted corner office, whether that office was occupied by the company CEO or its vice president for engineering. Unfortunately, a different kind of…
ISCRE 19: 19th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering. Dechema e.V. (Frankfurt, Germany). Phone: +49-69-7564-295; Fax: +49-69-7564-176; Web: events.dechema.de/ISCRE Potsdam/Berlin, Germany Sept. 3-6 Distillation & Absorption 2006. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (Rugby, U.K.). Phone: +44-1788-578214; Fax: +44-1788-560833;…
Petrochemicals - A Beginner's Course. Reed Business Information (Surrey, U.K.). Phone: +44-20-8652-3090; Fax: +44-20-8652-8351; Web: reedbusiness.co.uk Dubai, U. A.E. Sept. 11 12th Annual China Chemical Industry Conference. Chemical Week (New York, N.Y.). Phone: 212-621-4978; Fax: 212-621-4970; Email: [email protected]…