Innovations in Pilot-Plant Distillation Process Design
Small-scale distillation processes have specific concerns that are different than commercial-scale distillation. Presented here are…
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Advancing manufacturing ‘smartly’
It is an exciting time to be involved in science and technology. Advances across many…
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Process Control: Optimization at the Edge
The key technologies shaping industrial process control all work in tandem to support the ultimate…
Chementator
This process makes freshwater from brine while capturing CO2
A new electrochemical technology for direct-air capture (DAC) of atmospheric CO2 can also produce freshwater…
Reducing CO2 emissions from pig iron production
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Germany; www.kit.edu) and the SMS group GmbH (Düsseldorf,…
Recycle any type of magnet from end-of-life products
A new pilot plant is demonstrating a proprietary technology for recycling magnet materials from end-of-life…
Copper-graphene composite could enable more efficient electrical hardware
Composites of copper and graphene have been explored as a way to improve electrical conductivity,…
Chementator briefs
CO2 TO METHANOL Last December, Sumitomo Chemical Co, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) started operating a…
Convert CO2 to methanol at room temperature
A new electrocatalytic technology (diagram) is said to be the first to produce methanol from…
Flow reactor safely performs SuFEx click chemistry
Click chemistry — the subject of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — is a…
New membranes for dehydrating organic solvents
Researchers at Asahi Kasei Corp. (Düsseldorf, Germany and Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com) are developing a membrane-based…
Pilot plant planned for CO2 capture project using carbonate fuel cells
ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Nederland B.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.esso.nl) is planning to build a pilot…
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Business News: February 2024
Plant Watch Solenis to build new polyvinylamine production facility in Virginia January 12, 2024 —…
Technical & Practical
A Brief Review of Natural Water's Influence on Scale Formation in Heat Exchangers
Understanding the water chemistry is a first step in preventing heat-exchanger fouling At the two…
The Ten Most Common Laboratory Ventilation Mistakes
A laboratory ventilation system that does not work effectively may not keep personnel safe and…
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Heat Pumps: Decarbonizing the Process Industries
As the chemical process industries push to decarbonize their businesses, heat pumps are emerging as…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts At Your Fingertips: Overview of Reactor Types
Reactors are at the core of most processes in the chemical process industries (CPI) and…
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Applied Technologies
Complex Chemistry Demands Precise Process Control
An advanced control system helps alleviate workflow inefficiencies and reliance on manual adjustments in a…
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Focus On: Mechanical Recycling
Sort plastic flakes with this machine The new Innosort Flake (photo) is a high-throughput system…
New Products
Save energy in gas scrubbers with this optimizer
Launched last December, the High Efficiency Scrubber (HES) Optimizer (photo) is a digital tool that…
High productivity chocolate forming with this machine
The Rotoform HP (high performance) is the latest model in this company’s high-capacity Rotoform rotary…
This lab coat is made of recyclable materials
This company has developed a new personal protective equipment (PPE) garment for laboratory workers that…
This protective headset can charge itself using ambient light
At the CES 2024 event last month, this company unveiled what is said to be…
Multi-stage condenser for cracking organic waste material
The multi-stage TV-200 condenser (photo) was designed to separate biowaste materials produced during an anaerobic…
New partnerships bolster spatial simulation and regenerative AI
This company’s Xcelerator portfolio of industrial software is being combined with Sony’s new spatial content-creation…
New conveyor discharge adapter eases cleaning
This company has introduced a new discharge adapter (photo) as an option for its flexible…
Goggles protect eyes from splash, without fogging
The Vader Goggle BKGOG-2010N (photo) is made to keep out splash and maintain vision in…
A single-use micropump for microdosing applications
The new Quattroflow QB2-Standard (QB2-SD) micropump (photo) is the smallest size in this company’s family…
PCB terminal block for single-pair Ethernet
Single-pair Ethernet (SPE) is a powerful technology for realizing Industry 4.0 and IIoT applications. The…
These disconnects have a sloped-top clean design
The new SLPX Series of sloped-top motor disconnects (photo) enable plant operators to more easily…
These hazardous-materials storage buildings have FM approval
This company recently received FM approval for its Rack Fire Protect (RFP) non-occupancy buildings. Fire…
A dual-shaft mixer with 1,500-gal capacity
The purpose-built FDA-1500 mixer (photo) has a maximum working capacity of 1,500 gal and features…
Custom mixing systems optimize unique processing tasks
This company’s custom mixing systems (photo) are engineered to optimize unique processing projects, including batch…
Safe combustible-dust explosion isolation with this system
The new and improved Exkop isolation system (photo) is now available for many more applications,…
Liquid-level controller for oil-and-gas separators
The Fisher Fieldvue L2t liquid-level controller pairs with an electrically-actuated control valve to reliably maintain…
IoT connectivity for isolated assets
The Wilsen.valve and Wilsen.node internet of things (IoT) sensor nodes (photo) wirelessly transmit data from…
Convey both lean and dense phase in same system
The VS pneumatic vacuum-conveying system (photo) automatically transfers bulk materials in a choice of lean…