Pilot-Scale Distillation Process Design
The inherent characteristics, requirements and special concerns of pilot- and laboratory-scale distillation columns differ from…
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Driving change through funding
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which was passed into law last August,…
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Head to Toe Technology: Advances in Wearables
From headsets to gloves to fabric sensors, technologies that can be worn on the body…
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A new way to improve valve resiliency against flashing
Flashing occurs when the pressure of a fluid passing through a valve is lower than…
Perform dewatering, drying and cleaning of liquid waste in a single process
A recently commissioned, 150,000-ton/yr facility in Sumner, Wash. is the first wastewater-treatment plant to deploy…
This coating boosts the efficiency of perovskite solar cells
Perovskite materials have great potential as a lightweight and low-cost option for solar panels, but…
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ODC Technology Last month, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) started up a new world-scale facility…
Integrated capture and conversion of CO2 to methanol
Processes that capture carbon dioxide from industrial fluegas and simultaneously convert it into useful chemicals…
More sustainable curing technology for coil coatings
Coil coating is a continuous process for producing prepainted sheets of metal (steel or aluminum),…
A new high-throughput tool for developing catalysts
When searching for catalysts for the energy transition, materials consisting of at least five elements…
Battery electrode binder allows easier recycling
Recovering valuable metals, such as cobalt and nickel, from used lithium-ion batteries is emerging as…
Sorption-enhanced methanation
The production of substitute (or synthetic) natural gas (SNG) by methanation of CO2 with hydrogen…
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Business News: March 2023
Plant Watch Arlanxeo starts up new polybutadiene production line in Brazil February 14, 2023 —…
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Predictive Maintenance Implementation
Five common mistakes associated with implementing predictive maintenance tools are discussed here, along with five…
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Boiler Water Essentials: Water Is Water (Not)
When it comes to water used in boilers, it is important to remove potentially problematic…
Precoat Filter Demineralizers in Steam Loops
By minimizing, or even eliminating, the need for blowdowns in steam systems, precoat filter demineralizer…
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Facts At Your Fingertips: Fractional Solvent-Free Melt Crystallization
Fractional crystallization is a stage-wise separation technique that relies upon the liquid-solid phase change and…
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This synthetic leather is durable and abrasion resistant A prototype of the newly developed SilSense…
New Products
This field-configurable flowmeter has no pipe-run requirements
The new Series PI (photo) is a variable-area flowmeter that utilizes a spring-loaded piston. The…
Programmable, multicolor LED indicators
This company is expanding its portfolio of light-emitting diode (LED) lights with the robust LED…
Five new laboratory sensors added to this portfolio
There are five new laboratory sensors (photo) that are compatible with this company’s Liquiline CML18…
This centrifugal sifter addresses labor-shortage costs
The Centri-Sifter M1 (photo) is a centrifugal sifter specially designed to help address the high…
Switch amplifiers for intrinsically safe applications
The new KFU8-SR-EX* (photo) is a universal powered switch amplifier that can be used in…
A new weigh station for batching ingredients
This company’s new batch-weighing system (photo) is designed for accurate batching direct to blenders or…
These radar level transmitters are Bluetooth enabled
The Rosemount 3408 level transmitter (photo) is a non-contacting radar device designed to optimize ease-of-use,…
World's first 5G smartphone for hazardous areas
The IS540.1 (photo) is said to be the world’s first 5G smartphone for ATEX and…
This humidity sensor is designed for industrial drying
The HYT 939P temperature and humidity sensor (photo) is equipped with a PTFE filter, which…