Boost Steam-System Efficiency by Improving Condensate Recovery
Pressurized condensate-return systems and flash-steam vent condensers offer opportunities for fuel cost savings in a…
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Commentary
Ending plastic waste
Last month, almost 30 global companies announced the formation of an alliance to address the…
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Newsfronts
Artificial Intelligence: A New Reality for Chemical Engineers
From process and materials development to maintenance and logistics, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as…
Protection Through Better Housekeeping Practices
Using the hierarchy of controls can help guide housekeeping and safety programs to better protect…
Chementator
A photocatalyst for reducing CO2 without precious metals
The research group of professor Osamu Ishitani at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan; www.titech.ac.jp),…
New catalysts enable CO2-neutral olefins production via methane reforming
Today, olefins are mainly made either by naphtha cracking or by the catalytic conversion of…
Artificial enzyme shows multiple selectivity
Professor Kazuaki Ishigreo and colleagues at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan; http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp) have shown that a…
Co-electrolysis makes ‘green’ syngas in a single step
Last month, Sunfire GmbH (Dresden, Germany; www.sunfire.de) reported the successful startup and test run (more…
Plasma-based electrolysis makes ammonia at ambient conditions
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University (CWR; Cleveland, Ohio; www.case.edu) have shown that a hybrid…
Chementator Briefs
New PDH capability A new catalyst for propane dehydrogenation (PDH) that does not include precious…
Industrial-grade salt recovery from zero-liquid-discharge process
A process that increases the water-recovery from reverse osmosis (RO) while producing a salt byproduct…
A low-pressure process to leach metals from laterite ores
Queensland Pacific Metals (Brisbane, Australia), a subsidiary of Pure Minerals (Perth, Australia; www.pureminerals.com.au) will use…
CO2-to-chemicals effort boosted by electrocatalytic process
The quest to generate chemicals and fuels from exhaust or atmospheric carbon dioxide got a…
Business News
Plant Watch February 2019
Plant Watch Lotte BP Chemical to expand petrochemicals production in Ulsan January 14, 2019 —…
Technical & Practical
Air Coolers Versus Shell-and-Tube Water Coolers
As shown here, economical cooling is often achieved with a combination of both air and…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at your Fingertips: Pump Sizing Parameters
A solid grasp of pump sizing allows engineers to make effective economic and practical decisions…
Technology Profile
Oxygen Production via Cryogenic Distillation
This column is based on “Oxygen Production – Cost Analysis,” a report published by Intratec.…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Focus on Drones
Autonomous inventory management for stockpiles This company has launched an inventory-management solution (photo) for mining…
Focus on Filtration
The launch of a filter press and ceramic-disc filters After a recent acquisition of Swedish…
New Products
A new safety controller with programming flexibility
The Phoenix PLCnext Control RFC 4072S controller (photo) is the first high-performance controller for this…
Lighting design for calculated efficiency
This company offers customized, optimized concepts for illuminating workspaces in accordance with EN 12464-1/-2, focused…
Onsite biocide generation for cooling systems
This company has extended its Purate technology for chlorine dioxide (ClO2) biocides with a new…
A hybrid IT cooling system is very energy efficient
The (LCP) DX/FC Hybrid liquid-cooling platform (photo) includes both a refrigerant circuit (DX = direct…
Proprietary mixing technology for sanitary processes
This company has developed a line of sanitary processors (photo) that offer proprietary continuous-mixing technology…
A robust, drop-proof smartphone for rugged environments
The RG650 (photo) is a rugged smartphone designed to withstand tough environmental conditions in temperatures…
Use this handheld manometer in a wide range of pressures
DM 9600 Series precision manometers feature a color touchscreen and are designed with technicians in…
This radar level sensor makes cryogenic applications secure
This company’s 80-GHz radar sensors (photo) are temperature-decoupled from the process, meaning that they are…
This benchtop spray dryer expedites materials testing
The PolarDry Model 0.1 electrostatic spray dryer (photo) retains the features of larger dryers in…
A high-performance bead mill for viscous products
The Visconomic+ high-performance bead mill (photo) was developed specifically for processing very viscous and temperature-sensitive…
Simulate piping systems with this updated software tool
AFT Impulse 7 software (photo), a dynamic simulation and analysis tool used to calculate pressure-surge…
These long submersible pumps are hermetically sealed
Two of this company’s eight-stage, sealless canned-motor pumps from the TCAM 30/4+4 series (photo) have…
Compact level transmitter with intelligent processing
The Sitrans Probe LU240 (photo) is this company’s newest ultrasonic level-measurement HART transmitter. Field-proven echo…
Predictive maintenance improves pump diagnostics
SafeGuard (photo) is a predictive maintenance solution featuring wireless access and proactive alerts for all…
A next-generation purge and pressurization system
Designed for Class I or II/Div. 2 and Zone 2/22 locations, the 7500 series Ex…
Show Previews
Connected Plant Show Preview 2019
The 2019 Connected Plant Conference (www.connectedplantconference.com) is being held February 19–21 in Charlotte, N.C. The…