Extending the Life of Fluid System Components
With proper design, installation, monitoring and maintenance, chemical plant operators can increase the lifecycle of…
Cover Story
Commentary
Supporting advanced manufacturing
Manufacturing is becoming more advanced as companies adopt new technologies to stay competitive and to…
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Digital Tools Help Optimize Steam Systems
Measuring and monitoring tools simplify steam-system management and increase efficiency Although widely used throughout the…
Chementator
A colorful new way to visualize gaseous properties
Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; Ibaraki, Japan; www.nims.go.jp), along with Harvard University (Cambridge,…
Chementator briefs
Magnet Metals Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany; www.bilfinger.com) is supporting REEtec AS (Oslo, Norway; www.reetec.no) with…
Scaleup for an ethanol-to-ethylene process
Last May, Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) started up the first ethanol-to-ethylene pilot plant based on…
A more stable way to upcycle waste plastics
A new advanced recycling process simplifies the task of breaking down polymer chains and stabilizing…
Hydrothermal synthesis of cobalt-free lithium-ion-battery cathodes
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
Harvesting hydrogen from humid air
Chemical engineers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL; www.epfl.ch), in collaboration with…
Quantum-based tool searches quadrillions of materials to optimize catalysts
For the first time, a quantum-computing-inspired tool has been used for catalyst discovery — specifically…
Carbon sequestration in synthetic construction aggregate
Blue Planet Systems (Los Gatos, Calif.; www.blueplanetsystems.com) and Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) have…
Capture ammonia reversibly with this new MOF
Production of ammonia by the Haber-Bosch process not only requires a lot of energy for…
Business News
Business News: February 2023
Plant Watch Entegris to expand production capacity of Electronic Chemicals facilities January 12, 2023 —…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
Safety Aspects in the Instrumentation of Process Plants
Safety is often underestimated when planning, operating and maintaining process-measuring equipment. Sensors with SIL certification,…
Design for Safety: Tips for Proactive Risk Reduction
Thoughtful design can help reduce safety risks at process plant sites by proactively eliminating possible…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts At Your Fingertips: Stainless Steels and Corrosion
Stainless steels are common materials for process equipment and components in the chemical process industries…
Engineering Practice
Wireless Data Collection: Stop Chasing Reliability Data
A routes-by-exception reliability strategy helps improve safety and efficiency, while preserving competitive advantage in a…
Equipment & Services
Applied Technologies
Designing a Multi-Stage Thermal Oxidizer System
Thermal oxidizers can be used for the abatement of a wide range of air pollutants…
Focus
Focus on Packaging
SaaS integrates with packaging and labeling hardware PalletWorks 2.0 tracking and labeling software (photo) is…
New Products
These mass flow controllers have three new certifications
This company’s SLA Series mass-flow controllers (MFCs; photo) and meters now have new global certifications,…
New screw compressors with high capacity and low noise
The S-4 Series of screw compressors now includes options for the 45- to 75-kW performance…
These pressure gages are now equipped for 400% overpressure
This company’s 1209 solid-front stainless-steel pressure gage (photo) is now available with the new XRA…
Improve the connectivity of explosion-safety systems
Process equipment is usually connected by pipelines through which, if an explosion occurs, fire and…
A highly efficient electric double-diaphragm pump
Quantm is a new electric-operated double diaphragm pump (photo) that features an advanced electric-motor design…
These temperature and vibration devices have new certifications
This company has recently received FCC, FM and IC certification for its NEON brand of…
A digital sensor that measures subcooling and superheating
This company’s new digital pressure-temperature sensor (DPTS; photo) is designed to measure subcooling for HVAC-refrigeration…
Get steam at its set pressure, nearly immediately
The MC-COS multi-control valve (photo) is a fully integrated device consisting of this company’s COS…
Show Previews
Filtech 2023 Show Preview
Filtech 2023 Filtech 2023, which takes place on February 14–16 at the Cologne, Germany fairgrounds,…