Chemical Engineering
Facts At Your Fingertips: NFPA 652 and Dust Hazards Analyses
The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA; Quincy, Mass.; www.nfpa.org) NFPA 652 (Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust) creates a single, unified combustible-dust standard that applies to “all facilities and operations that manufacture, process, blend, convey, repackage, generate, or handle…
Technology Profile: Production of Sodium Hydroxide from Brine
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is a white, translucent crystalline solid that is widely used in the chemical process industries (CPI). NaOH is often referred to as caustic soda, due to its corrosive action on many substances: it decomposes proteins at room…
Process Analytical Technology Advances
Developments in laser technology and significantly increased computing power are making process analyzers available for new applications and even for closed-loop control Process analytical technology (PAT) has undergone rapid development in recent years. Further developments in laser technology, the miniaturization…
PAT is IIoT Ready
Combining process analytical technology (PAT) and the cloud for next-level productivity Process analytical technology (PAT) enables manufacturing and processing companies to continuously enhance their competitiveness in an increasingly fast-paced and demanding market (see part 1, “Process Analytical Technology Advances,” pp.…
Modularization: Managing Project Delivery Risk in the Time of COVID
Taking a modular approach to capital projects offers a pathway for companies to be proactive, rather than reactive, as they manage project risk in the time of COVID and potential similar disruptions in the future It has been more than…
Changing Fluids in a High-Temperature Heat Transfer Fluid System
Switching from one fluid to another in a heat transfer system requires an engineering evaluation. Here is what to include In well-designed and well-maintained heat transfer systems, heat transfer fluids generally last for a long time and function as intended.…
Toray starts up advanced film-production capabilities at Mashima plant
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that new film-development machinery installed at its Mishima Plant has become fully operational. This new setup will enable the company to create advanced offerings for an increasingly sophisticated and diverse film market. The machinery…
Total announces name change to TotalEnergies
At the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders approved today, almost unanimously, the resolution to change the company’s name from Total to TotalEnergies SE, thereby anchoring its strategic transformation into a broad energy company in its identity. In tandem with…
Wood wins FEED contract for Adnoc’s blue ammonia plant
Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been engaged by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to perform Pre Front-End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) work for the company’s recently announced blue ammonia project and the six additional TA’ZIZ chemicals projects. Adnoc recently announced…
Toyo awarded ammonia plant project in India
Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo), has been awarded an ammonia plant project with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day and associated offsite and utility facilities from Performance Chemiserve Limited (PCL),…