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A compact system cleans fluegas from glass-melting furnaces
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Continuous vibration measurements improve uptime
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These AODD pumps have a safety-enhancing design
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Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Generating Equilibrium Data Equilibrium data and related information gathered from a liquid-liquid extraction…
Acid Recovery Becomes the NormAs environmental and transportation regulations become more stringent around the…
Seals and Gaskets: Sealing the DealIncreased reliability, chemical compatibility and containment of sealing solutions are…
Measure bulk solids in piles and silosAdvances in sensing and imaging technologies have enabled new levels…
Japan takes a major step toward a hydrogen-based economyA Japanese consortium has started the construction of the Fukushima…
Oxidative desulfurization approach for hydrocarbons lowers costsPetroleum refineries must meet increasingly stringent levels for sulfur content…
Materials properties discovery aided by machine learningA new materials-discovery platform that relies on machine-learning enables scientists…
Advanced ODC electrolysis reduces energy consumption even more Around 70% of all chemical products use chlorine in their…
Advanced thermal hydrolysis pretreatment boosts biogas productionThermal hydrolysis of wastewater sludge before it enters anaerobic digestion…
Chementator BriefsNew adsorbent Last month, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) launched…
A compact system cleans fluegas from glass-melting furnacesFurnaces used in the production of glass are normally equipped…
Extracting gold without cyanideThe first gold using a process without cyanide and without…
Business News October 2018Plant Watch Dow announces investment plans to increase global silicones…
Determination of nozzle loads to facilitate the initial pressure vessel designIn pressure vessel design, use this procedure for determining the…
Experimental Methodologies to Verify Distillation SimulationsPresented here are practical considerations concerning the equipment and methods…
Avoid Common Mistakes When Specifying Burner Management SystemsWhile some aspects of burner management systems may seem intuitive,…
Reduce Risk and Cost with a Lifecycle Approach to Process SafetyBetter upfront planning and management can lead to safer, more…
Facts at your Fingertips: Filtration Process DesignDesigning a new solid-liquid filtration process or optimizing an existing…
Technology Profile: Benzene Production from Pyrolysis GasThis column is based on “Benzene Production from Pygas,” a…
Calculate the Wetted Surface Area of Pressure VesselsThis article provides a comparative study of two approaches to…
Cybersecurity: Building Resilience from the Inside OutCybersecurity is no longer a far-fetched concept relegated to science…
Improve Energy Management to Reduce Your Facility's Carbon FootprintThis article describes an approach that uses data analytics for…
Focus on ValvesThese versatile, modular valves enable quick installation More than 2,500…
This discharging system has built-in bag-piercing knivesThe patented Material Master bulk-bag discharging system (photo) includes bag-piercing…
These liquid-level sensors work when condensation is presentTypically, the presence of condensation substantially degrades the measurement signal…
Cybersecurity for legacy control systemsSerialTap (photo) is a new cybersecurity solution for legacy industrial…
New release of this structural analysis softwareGT Strudl 2018 R1 software offers fully integrated and database-driven…
Signal transmission and functional safety combinedEtherCAT terminals (photo), part of this company’s ELX Series, have…
This pump handles solids with diameters up to 4 in.This company’s vertical wet-pit cantilever pump (photo) features a fully…
This agitator avoids fibrous buildupThe Chemineer RL-3 impeller (photo) has been specifically engineered to…
Continuous vibration measurements improve uptimeThe new 3561 FC vibration sensor (photo) improves uptime by…
These AODD pumps have a safety-enhancing designNew C-Series air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps (photo) are designed to…
New motor options for drum pumpsThis company’s Finish Thompson drum pumps and barrel-emptying pumps are…
A solution to optimize motor performance in cooling towersSeries M Geareducers (photo) are designed and manufactured to directly…
Comprehensive monitoring for heat-trace circuitsThe TraceNet Genesis control and monitoring system (photo) manages heat-trace…
A pressure gage for frigid conditionsThe T6500 pressure gage (photo) is designed for use in…
These dryers feature a versatile base to accommodate auxiliariesThis company’s rugged fluid-bed dryers feature unitary steel bases as…
Sight-glass-mounted camera enables remote vessel inspectionThe EXPCMR-IP-POE-4MP-IR-SGM explosion-proof camera (photo) is a remote inspection device…
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