Use of AI in Chemical Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere in industry, but the nuances of its application…
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Decision-Making with AI-Driven Insights
Chemical processors are harnessing the powerful fusion of advanced analytics and increasing artificial intelligence capabilities…
Commentary
Sustainability maintains momentum
The past several years have seen rapid growth in technologies designed to mitigate the effects…
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Generative and Agentic AI: Intelligent Manufacturing Evolves
As many chemical producers are developing and implementing comprehensive AI strategies, newer AI paradigms, such…
Advanced Mixing Technologies Enhance Process Efficiency
New mixing solutions lead to higher yields, while minimizing energy consumption and material waste Usually…
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Creating microgels for drug delivery by ion exchange
One method used to deliver drugs in a controlled manner is to encapsulate them in…
This single-pot reaction scheme could open the path to recycling used tires
Recycling vehicle tires is complicated because the rubbers used (including butadiene and polyisoprene) are highly…
Non-fluorinated coatings reach new heights with first oil- and water-repellent textile product
As industries and consumers have shown an increasing preference for water and oil repellents that…
Direct cryo-compression of gaseous hydrogen: the "best of both worlds" between liquefaction and compression
Safe and cost-effective storage represents one of the major hurdles in the widespread adoption of…
Molten-salt electrolysis process quickly scales up U.S. cobalt-refining capacity
A proprietary molten-salt electrolysis (MSE) process originally designed for battery manufacturing has now been re-optimized…
This MOF selectively adsorbs CO2 from biogas and can be regenerated under mild conditions
Biogas — produced from anaerobic digestion of organic matter — contains a mixture of gases,…
Direct synthesis of C2 hydrocarbons using photoelectrochemistry
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif. www.lbl.gov), along with a host of…
Conversion of CO2 gas to graphene successfully demonstrated
The ability to economically produce large scales of graphene will help to enable many high-performance…
Business News
Plant Watch: June 2025 Business News
Plant Watch Cariflex opens $355-million latex plant in Singapore May 15, 2025 — Cariflex Pte.…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
Selecting an Activated Carbon for Regenerable Steam Systems
In adsorption processes using steam to regenerate activated carbon, the carbon’s physical characteristics can greatly…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts At Your Fingertips: Genetic Engineering Tools in Industrial Microbiology
Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential…
Equipment & Services
Applied Technologies
Refining Intelligence: Transforming Operations with AI
When challenged by fragmented knowledge and time-intensive manual analysis, artificial intelligence helped to accelerate decision-making…
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Product Focus: Seals and gaskets
This pump packing has a modular design The AMPS (Advanced Modular Packing System; photo) is…