Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Generating Equilibrium Data
Equilibrium data and related information gathered from a liquid-liquid extraction laboratory “shake test” can provide…
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Commentary
Preparing for unprecedented storms
This year, hurricane season in the U.S. has been active again, with Hurricane Florence battering…
In The News
Newsfronts
Seals and Gaskets: Sealing the Deal
Increased reliability, chemical compatibility and containment of sealing solutions are priorities for chemical processors Seals…
Acid Recovery Becomes the Norm
As environmental and transportation regulations become more stringent around the world, treating spent acids is…
Chementator
Advanced thermal hydrolysis pretreatment boosts biogas production
Thermal hydrolysis of wastewater sludge before it enters anaerobic digestion units can increase the rate…
Advanced ODC electrolysis reduces energy consumption even more
Around 70% of all chemical products use chlorine in their manufacturing process. At the same…
Oxidative desulfurization approach for hydrocarbons lowers costs
Petroleum refineries must meet increasingly stringent levels for sulfur content in fuel, but the conventional…
Materials properties discovery aided by machine learning
A new materials-discovery platform that relies on machine-learning enables scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale…
A compact system cleans fluegas from glass-melting furnaces
Furnaces used in the production of glass are normally equipped with fluegas-cleaning plants that have…
Chementator Briefs
New adsorbent Last month, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) launched Sorbead Air, an efficient adsorbent…
Extracting gold without cyanide
The first gold using a process without cyanide and without mercury has been produced using…
Measure bulk solids in piles and silos
Advances in sensing and imaging technologies have enabled new levels of accuracy in the measurement…
Japan takes a major step toward a hydrogen-based economy
A Japanese consortium has started the construction of the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R),…
Business News
Business News October 2018
Plant Watch Dow announces investment plans to increase global silicones production September 12, 2018 —…
Technical & Practical
Determination of nozzle loads to facilitate the initial pressure vessel design
In pressure vessel design, use this procedure for determining the individual permissible flange loads for…
Experimental Methodologies to Verify Distillation Simulations
Presented here are practical considerations concerning the equipment and methods used for experimental verifications of…
Feature Report
Avoid Common Mistakes When Specifying Burner Management Systems
While some aspects of burner management systems may seem intuitive, overcoming misconceptions in their specification…
Reduce Risk and Cost with a Lifecycle Approach to Process Safety
Better upfront planning and management can lead to safer, more productive processes throughout every phase…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at your Fingertips: Filtration Process Design
Designing a new solid-liquid filtration process or optimizing an existing one requires consideration of a…
Technology Profile
Technology Profile: Benzene Production from Pyrolysis Gas
This column is based on “Benzene Production from Pygas,” a report published by Intratec. It…
Engineering Practice
Calculate the Wetted Surface Area of Pressure Vessels
This article provides a comparative study of two approaches to protect ASME semi-elliptical pressure tanks…
Environmental Manager
Improve Energy Management to Reduce Your Facility's Carbon Footprint
This article describes an approach that uses data analytics for finding and addressing root causes…
Cybersecurity: Building Resilience from the Inside Out
Cybersecurity is no longer a far-fetched concept relegated to science fiction or conspiracy theories. It…
Equipment & Services
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Focus on Valves
These versatile, modular valves enable quick installation More than 2,500 configurations are available in the…
New Products
These AODD pumps have a safety-enhancing design
New C-Series air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps (photo) are designed to enable the housing parts to…
Cybersecurity for legacy control systems
SerialTap (photo) is a new cybersecurity solution for legacy industrial control networks that rely on…
New motor options for drum pumps
This company’s Finish Thompson drum pumps and barrel-emptying pumps are now available with the TEFC…
A pressure gage for frigid conditions
The T6500 pressure gage (photo) is designed for use in environments with extremely low temperatures.…
A solution to optimize motor performance in cooling towers
Series M Geareducers (photo) are designed and manufactured to directly replace other gearboxes in field-erected…
Sight-glass-mounted camera enables remote vessel inspection
The EXPCMR-IP-POE-4MP-IR-SGM explosion-proof camera (photo) is a remote inspection device specifically designed for observation in…
This pump handles solids with diameters up to 4 in.
This company’s vertical wet-pit cantilever pump (photo) features a fully recessed impeller that is designed…
This discharging system has built-in bag-piercing knives
The patented Material Master bulk-bag discharging system (photo) includes bag-piercing knives for the discharge of…
These liquid-level sensors work when condensation is present
Typically, the presence of condensation substantially degrades the measurement signal strength of ultrasonic sensors, but…
These dryers feature a versatile base to accommodate auxiliaries
This company’s rugged fluid-bed dryers feature unitary steel bases as standard, which allow cover-lift hoists,…
Signal transmission and functional safety combined
EtherCAT terminals (photo), part of this company’s ELX Series, have been expanded through the addition…
Continuous vibration measurements improve uptime
The new 3561 FC vibration sensor (photo) improves uptime by adding remote, continuous vibration monitoring…
Comprehensive monitoring for heat-trace circuits
The TraceNet Genesis control and monitoring system (photo) manages heat-trace circuit performance on process lines,…
This agitator avoids fibrous buildup
The Chemineer RL-3 impeller (photo) has been specifically engineered to prevent fibrous material buildup on…
New release of this structural analysis software
GT Strudl 2018 R1 software offers fully integrated and database-driven software for general finite element…