Alarm Management By the Numbers
Deeper understanding of common alarm-system metrics can improve remedial actions and result in a safer…
Cover Story
Understand and Cure High Alarm Rates
Alarm rates that exceed an operator’s ability to manage them are common. This article explains…
Commentary
Advancing with automation
Many, if not most, of us have heard of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).…
In The News
Newsfronts
CPI Demands Pumps with Lower Lifecycle Costs
Improved designs result in leak-free, reliable, longer-lasting pumps Because pumps move media through reactors, valves…
Cutting-edge Composites: Materials for a New Era
The combination of advanced materials and processing techniques results in new composites that can aid…
Chementator
Chementator Briefs
Bio-based PET Later this year, Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; www.suntory.com) will start up a…
Bio-based BTX test facility breaks ground in Texas
Construction has begun on a testing and development facility for a bio-based process to produce…
Progress for high-efficiency ammonia-cogeneration plant
A process that produces anhydrous ammonia while also generating thermal power has reached a milestone…
Monetizing coke-oven gas, while capturing CO2
A process that converts process gases, generated during the production of metallurgical coke, into marketable…
Novel cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Initial validation testing has been completed on a novel cathode material that could lower the…
Graphene-based membranes
Graphene has received much attention as material for membranes due to its high surface area,…
Making more carbon fibers for less
An efficient, energy-saving process for making carbon fibers (diagram) is being developed by a collaboration…
Extracting platinum metals
The traditional method for recovering platinum-group metals (Pt, Pa, Ir, Os, Rh, Ru and Au)…
Collaboration lowers cost for bio-based FDME process
A partnership between DuPont Industrial Biosciences (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) and Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM;…
Making aerogel absorbants from wastepaper
A team from the National University of Singapore (www.nus.edu.sg), led by assistant professor Duong Hai…
Business News
Business News March 2016
Plant Watch Evonik to expand capacity for special PA12 powder in Marl February 10,…
Technical & Practical
Materials Management — Evolving the Process for an Evolving Marketplace
The case examples presented here show that proper planning, communication and execution of tasks can…
Feature Report
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers: The Design Cycle
Following this step-by-step approach will ensure that the heat exchanger will perform as required when…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Particle-sizing technology selection
Size range is a defining consideration when it comes to choosing a particle-sizing technology for…
Technology Profile
Aniline Production from Nitrobenzene
This column is based on “Economics of Aniline Production from Nitrobenzene,” a report published by…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Level Monitoring and Control
Acoustics-based device monitors uneven topography The BinMaster 3D Level Scanner (photo) uses non-contact, dust- penetrating…
New Products
This steam-trap monitor has ISA100 Wireless certification
This company’s SWWRF40 wireless steam-trap monitor has successfully achieved ISA100 Wireless certification from the International…
These flowmeters' gas-selection feature has been expanded
The Gas-SelectX gas-selection feature of the FT1 thermal mass flowmeter (photo) has been expanded to…
PVDF eductor nozzles for aggressive chemicals
Eductor nozzles are often used to agitate the contents of tanks to prevent separation and…
Ball-valve mechanisms in these couplings protect against spills
Epsilon dry-disconnect couplings (photo) are designed for use in critical in-plant and chemical-transfer applications in…
These mixers are now available for higher capacities
This company has expanded its most advanced planetary mixer line, the PDDM (photo), to include…
A new crossflow filtration system for process development
SartoFlow Smart (photo) is a new benchtop crossflow system for optimized ultra- and diafiltration applications.…
These vacuum regulators are now available in aluminum
This company’s dome-loaded vacuum regulators are now available in an anodized aluminum version (photo). Previously,…
Expanded selection for these gas-sorption analyzers
The new MultiPort inlet selector (photo) is now available for this company’s IGA and XEMIS…
A new line of motion controllers with programmable automation
This company’s line of controllers for ultrasonic direct-drive motors and positioning stages offer responsiveness for…
This gas-standard generator allows for automatic control
The 491Flex Calibration Gas Standards Generator (photo) is an update of the 491M manual system,…
Feed spacers improve RO membrane performance
Introduced at the Membrane Technology Conference & Exposition (Feb. 1–5; San Antonio, Tex.), the reverse-osmosis…
Discharge and weigh bulk bags with this heavy-duty unit
The Material Master bulk-bag discharging, weighing and feeding system (photo) features heavy-duty stainless-steel construction with…
Clean fragile filters with these ultrasonic systems
This line of ultrasonic cleaning systems for filters range from tabletop to industrial-size floor models,…
Higher pressure ratings for these sealless pumps
Previously rated at 1,000 psi maximum discharge pressure, Hydra-Cell D10 Series sealless pumps with metallic…
Optimize particle-sizing systems with this light-scattering device
The Litesizer 500 is a light-scattering device for determining the size and stability of nanoparticles…
Respiratory-air-line monitor for carbon monoxide
CO-Guard (photo) is a compact, user-friendly monitor for compressed-air-line carbon monoxide (CO). The instrument incorporates…
A new mid-range rackmount network security appliance
To optimize networking and virtualization performances, this company has introduced a highly integrated 14-nm system…
Show Previews
Show Preview-Interphex 2016
Taking place April 26–28 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, Interphex…
Show Preview - AFS Society Spring Meeting 2016
The American Filtration and Separations (AFS) Society (Nashville, Tenn.; www.afssociety.org) will be holding the Oil,…
Departments
Letters
Designing for distillation
I read your article “Flooded Condenser Controls: Principle and Troubleshooting” [ Chem. Eng., January 2016,…