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EDITOR'S PAGE The 2021 Kirkpatrick Award: Call for nominations Since 1933, Chemical Engineering has honored noteworthy chemical engineering technologies… COVER STORY Preventing Electrostatic Explosions and Fires There are many occasions in chemical processing plants where electrostatic… IN THE NEWS NEWSFRONTS New Ways to Achieve Better Control of Emissions New and improved catalysts and other process innovations are helping… CHEMENTATOR
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Storing excess electricity as high-temperature heat Late last November, the energy-transition start-up company Lumenion GmbH (Berlin,… Process for recycling of cotton garments produces multi-ton quantities for testing A process developed by Evrnu (Seattle, Wash.; www.evrnu.com) to regenerate… Radiative cooling: A coating for windows that also cools A Korean team has proposed an approach for passive radiative… Enhancing photocatalytic activity by tuning wall thickness of TiO2 nanotubes Titanium dioxide is well known as a photocatalyst, and is… Immobilizing enzymes for biosensors A new technique for making less-expensive, more-efficient biological enzyme hybrids… A breakthrough in artificial intelligence-enabled materials discovery A groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, dubbed CAMEO (Closed-Loop Autonomous… Membrane extraction improves biofuel yield Typically, the production of fuel-grade chemicals, such as butanol, from… January Chementator Briefs MDI Production Late last year, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com)… Membrane-based system for low-cost CO2 capture to be demonstrated at engineering scale A new membrane technology for separating carbon dioxide from exhaust… BUSINESS NEWS Business News: January 2021 Plant Watch LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on… TECHNICAL & PRACTICAL FEATURE REPORT Moisture Measurement in Solid Materials Determining moisture levels in solid materials is important for product… FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Facts at your Fingertips: Nickel-based Superalloys Superalloys, also known as high-performance alloys, are considered as materials… TECHNOLOGY PROFILE Technology Profile: Dimethyl Ether Production from Natural Gas and Carbon Dioxide This column is based on “Dimethyl Ether Production from Natural… ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER Practicing Year-Round Waste Compliance There are many regulations surrounding the production of waste at… EQUIPMENT & SERVICES FOCUS Focus on Flow Measurement & Control Flowmeter with pressure and temperature sensors, too The Proline Prosonic… NEW PRODUCTS
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A reliable and versatile pneumatic pressure controller PMT Model 40 pneumatic pressure controllers (photo) are available in… Purify complex bio-based solutions with these new resins Lewatit PH 1074 HEP (photo) is the newest product in… New high-volume granulation equipment improves yield By combining the HSM 2000 X.ONE high-shear mixer and FBE… New cleaning agent rapidly breaks down fats and greases Pure-OX FOAM (photo) is a peroxide-based foaming detergent specifically formulated… Protect potable water with this diverse product family The VaultSafe product line (photo) is designed to protect potable… Customizable mobile totes for biopharmaceutical applications This company has introduced the KDT series of configurable knockdown… Achieve repeatable reactions with this one-step solution This company’s Continuous Hybrid Reactor (CHR; photo) has been designed… New industrial PCs create a secure visualization system The Allen-Bradley VersaView 6300 PCs and thin clients (photo) combine… These dust monitors now have hazardous-location approvals The DustAlarm ES and DustTrend ES series (photo) of broken-bag… Powder sifters automatically remove foreign objects GS centrifugal sifters (photo) automatically capture and remove foreign objects… Thermal and visible videoscope for underground utility vaults The new FLIR VS290-32 (photo) is said to be an… Automatically dispense a variety of media The Bench Cat system (photo) is designed for automatically dispensing… Cr-free corrosion inhibitors provide long-lasting protection This company’s chromium-free corrosion-inhibiting technology, Intelli-ion, utilizes novel active ingredients,… An industrial edge platform for data processing With the new Industrial Edge Management system (photo), users can… This IBC now also has FM approval The Ecobulk SX-D intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo) is specially… A new turbopump for ion-implantation applications HiPace 2800 IT (photo) is a turbomolecular pump especially dedicated… Optimize industrial training with immersive virtual reality This company’s Immersive Field Simulator (photo) is an advanced industrial-training… A needle valve for high-pressure applications This company’s new high-pressure needle valve (HPNV; photo) is designed… A sanitary rotary mixer that is washdown-rated The Model MX-5-S316L sanitary rotary-batch mini-mixer (photo) can de-agglomerate and… Explosion-protected products are now CCC-compliant To secure access to the Chinese market, this company has…
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Chementator: Concentrating Light to Boost Solar-Energy Efficiency Engineers at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu) are developing solar concentrators… Chementator: Carbon-Capture Market The global market for carbon-capture technologies was worth $88.7 billion… Chementator: A Well-known Phenomenon Finds a Commercial Application in a Gas Sensor Optoacoustic gas detection determines gas content via the measurement of… Chementator: EPA Delays GHG Action On July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington,… Chementator: An Improved Solar Process for Extracting H2 from Water The production of hydrogen by water splitting promises to become… Chementator: PEEK Bioreactor Parts The high salt concentrations, extreme pH values and high temperatures… Chementator: Honors for Green Chemistry Among this year’s award winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection… Chementator: Bio-Based Polyols Last month, Cargill (Minneapolis, Min.; www.cargill.com) broke ground in Chicago… Chementator: Taking Advantage of Landfill Gas Dow Chemical (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) has started using a renewable… Chementator: A New Process for Making Solar-Cell-Grade Silicon Slated for Commercialization Chisso Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.chisso.co.jp) has established a new joint-venture… Chementator: Plastics: A New Use for an Ethanol Coproduct Corn residue left in fermenters after ethanol production could find… Chementator: More H2 from H2O QuantumSphere, Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) has commercialized electrodes coated… Chementator: Monitoring Fermentation Time consuming and prone to error, microscopy — the manual… Chementator: Dow and NREL Join Forces in a Biomass Gasification Project A thermochemical process for converting biomass to ethanol, other biofuels… Chementator: A New Valve Seat Flowserve Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.flowserve.com) has introduced the Valtek Valdisk… Chementator: Making Molten Glass ‘on-the-fly’ Can Cut Energy Consumption in Half A process that makes glass by "zapping" the raw materials… Chementator: Tiny Buckyball Crystals Researchers at the University of Surrey (U.K., www.surrey.ac.uk) have discovered… BUSINESS NEWS
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LyondellBasell's technologies selected by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, in which LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands;… BMS starts construction of TDI plant in China During the course of this year Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen,… CAC builds sodium hypochlorite plant in Moscow Wassertechnik Essen GmbH, a subsidiary of the Austrian EVN AG,… Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant Siemens’ (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) coal gasification technology has been selected… Economic Indicators: Business News Plant Watch Metso to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX… BASF builds a new world-scale plant for Trilon M BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in the production… Evonik and SolarWorld open new solar silicon plant Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and SolarWorld AG (Bonn, both… Süd-Chemie and IMIC establish JV for Italy Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is to significantly expand its… LyondellBasell licenses PP technology to SABIC affiliate Arabian Industrial Fibres company, an affiliate of SABIC, has selected… Arkema awards FEED project to CAC The French chemical group Arkema plans an expansion of its… TECHNICAL & PRACTICAL
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Engineering Practice: A Lessons-Learned Knowledge Management System for Engineers An organizational lessons-learned system facilitates the transfer of knowledge from… Engineering Practice: Predicting Physical Properties of Hydrocarbon Compounds The continuing growth in the importance of chemical processing, including… Cover Story: Making Energy Efficiency Pay As fuel prices continue to rise, energy management is everyone’s… Novel and Conventional Approaches to Sterilization The techniques used for sterilization have a major impact on… Solids Processing: Prevent Caking and Unintended Agglomeration Learn what causes caking and how testing methods can help… Facts at your Fingertips: Valves Gate Gate valves are designed to operate fully open or…
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