Maintaining Heat-Transfer-Fluid Quality
Learning what can degrade heat-transfer-fluid quality can help minimize potentially negative effects Organic heat transfer…
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Commentary
The 2018 Chopey Scholarship
Since 1902, Chemical Engineering has been a leading source for practical technology information and news…
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Urban Mining Offers Good Prospecting
As the volume of discarded electronic gadgets grows, efforts are underway to recover the precious…
The Changing Face of Maintenance
Data analytics, connectivity and machine learning are helping processors maintain facilities in a more cost-efficient…
Chementator
An inexpensive, renewable aerogel shows promise for handling oil spills
Many methods have been developed to remove spilled oil and organic pollutants from water, but…
Testing the limits of cryogenic distillation
CSIRO (Perth, Australia; www.csiro.au) and the University of Western Australia (www.uwa.edu.au) have developed a first-of-its-kind…
Extracting lithium from waste brine without ponds
The growing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has created incentives to improve processes for extracting…
More scalable method for membrane separations
Membranes present a lower-energy alternative to distillation for the separation of hydrocarbons, but these processes…
The first commercial power-to-liquids plant planned
Nordic Blue Crude A/S (NBC; Porsgrunn, Norway; www.nordicbluecrude.no) intends to build the first power-to-liquids (PtL)…
Fast-pyrolysis process recovers valuable materials from tires
Each year, more than 1 billion automobile tires are replaced worldwide. Together, the used tires…
Making amine-based CO2 adsorbents more stable
Amine-containing solids have been investigated as promising adsorbents for CO2 capture, but existing amine-containing adsorbents…
Chementator Briefs
Forward Osmosis Last month, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC; Sarnia, Ont.; www.bincanada.ca), Forward Water Technologies (FWT;…
Antifouling membranes for single-step desalination
A filter for water purification that can replace, with a single step, the complex, time-consuming…
Business News
Business News for July 2018
Plant Watch Arkema to expand polyamide powder production capacity in France June 6, 2018 —…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
An Overview of Gas Flow Measurement
Many applications require accurate flowrate measurement for air or other gases. Installation requirements, calibration and…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at your Fingertips: UN Codes for Packaging Dangerous Goods
Shipping and transport of chemicals require specialized packaging to mitigate the hazards that the chemicals…
Technology Profile
Technology Profile: Acrylonitrile Production from Propylene
This column is based on “Acrylonitrile Production from Propylene,” a report published by Intratec. It…
Solids Processing
Biosludge Drying: System Design Schemes for the Sticky Phase
Drying biosludge from wastewater-treatment plants is complicated by the “sticky phase,” making the practice more…
Engineering Practice
Avoid Safety Pitfalls During Plant Expansion and Modification
Follow this guidance to minimize risk when adding or modifying plant equipment In 2015, construction…
Liquid-Gas Coalescers: The Effects of Retrograde Condensation
Modeling and pilot testing can minimize its impact during natural-gas processing Retrograde condensation (RC) occurs…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Focus on Plant Security
Protect plant assets from cybersecurity threats The fully integrated Claroty Platform (photo) incorporates realtime vulnerability…
New Products
These couplings prevent slippage for mixers and more
This company’s dual-keyed rigid couplings (photo) feature axial and annular keyways to provide additional security…
Fully integrated Venturi scrubber units
Series 7000/8000 Venturi scrubbers are now available in a fully integrated package (photo) that includes…
Pressure gages now equipped with calibration reminder system
An automatic calibration-reminder system has been added to the XP2i pressure gage (photo). The new…
New, higher-capacity pump for sand and slurry dewatering
The new KB220 pump (photo) operates at flowrates up to 810 gal/min in sand and…
A new infrared sensor improves CO2 monitoring
The Ultima X5000 gas monitor is now being offered with the new XIR Plus infrared…
New hose loaders feature a space-saving profile
The Compact Torsion Swivel (CTS) hose loader (photo) features a fully integrated internal torsion spring…
Production crimper with slide-bearing technology
The HM 665 crimping machine (photo) offers an opening stroke of more than 180 mm…
This dispersing mixer also has a proprietary planetary design
The PowerMix Model PDM-10 (photo) combines high-speed dispersion with planetary stirring action, imparting high shear…
Digital floor scales with a rugged design
The PowerDeck digital floor scale (photo) combines this company’s Powercell digital load-cell technology with a…