When scaling up from laboratory experiments to full-scale production, there are a strong set of reasons for constructing intermediate pilot-scale plants, but there are also some scale-up situations where it may pay off to skip the pilot studies Pilot-plant studies…
The revamp approach discussed here can deliver a 5% throughput increase at autothermal reformer (ATR)-based methanol plants without requiring any major equipment replacements or modifications Growing global methanol demand and tightening margins are pushing producers toward brownfield expansions that extract…
Project CLEAN (Catalytic Low-temperature Efficiency for Advanced Decontamination), a four-year research project involving BlueAlp (Eindhoven, the Netherlands; www.bluealp.nl), Renewi plc (Milton Keynes, U.K.; www.renewi.com), Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com) and the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands; www.uu.nl), has been awarded…
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies has presented the chemical process industries (CPI) with opportunities for improving process efficiency, asset maintenance, product development and plant safety. While not fully realized in the CPI, the potential…
Diagnostics, self-monitoring and digital communication detect flowmeter issues, provide insight Accurate flow measurement is the backbone of chemical process optimization. Today’s flowmeters are being enhanced with smart technologies and other advances designed to overcome flow monitoring challenges in the chemical…
Ammonia manufacturing with carbon capture (blue ammonia) has emerged as the most practical near-term option for deep decarbonization of ammonia production. Evaluated here are eight technology configurations for decarbonization strategies with blue ammonia production Ammonia is increasingly viewed as an…
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (Charlotte, N.C.; www.duke-energy.com), unveiled its DeBary Hydrogen Production Storage System in Volusia County (Fla.), the first demonstration project in the United States capable of using an end-to-end system to produce, store and…
Stirred tanks are common throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), used as batch reactors and continuous-flow reactors, as well as for physical processing of product formulations in which no chemical reaction is occurring. In all cases, fluid mixing — in…
An advanced membrane-chamber filter press improved material recovery and operating efficiency while lowering operating costs at a facility for the recycling of construction materials In today’s world, where resource conservation and sustainable practices are more important than ever, the RCO…
Siloxanes — synthetic chains of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms — are widely used in personal care products, soaps, pharmaceutical formulations and other products, but are notoriously difficult to manage in production- and waste-fluid streams. Current approaches, including flaring and…