Making the decision to change career paths from a technical role to a more managerial one can be difficult. Here are some considerations to take into account As a technically trained chemical engineer, career opportunities are very broad with respect…
Onsite recovery conserves one of the most precious resources — water. A well-engineered, closed-loop recycling system can pay dividends in avoided costs to treat and discharge wastewater In Southern California, few businesses dispute the need for water conservation. In a…
Photoionization detection (PID) is a recommended technology for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, industrial health and safety, air quality, facility/site monitoring and fugitive emissions. One of the unique features of this company’s MiniPIDs…
Emerging automation-system architectures will provide the foundation required for optimized operations across the enterprise For decades, when a person mentioned process control, most engineers’ minds went to proportional integral derivative (PID) loop control, interlocks, safety and advanced process control. Perhaps…
The new, electronic automatic pellet-mill control system, EAPR (photo), enables this company’s machines to operate optimally with low manpower requirements and long service lives. EAPR enables optimum automatic operation of all flat-die pellet mills. It consists of a local control…
Presented here is a description of the Open Process Automation Standard and a progress report on its implementation by industry Open Process Automation (OPA) is an end-user company-driven industry movement to transform the industrial control-system market from one that supplies…
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) announced it has reached mechanical completion of its first polypropylene (PP) purification plant in Ironton, OH (the “Ironton Facility”), and submitted documentation to Leidos Engineering, LLC (“Leidos”), the site’s independent construction monitor, for formal certification…
OCI Global, a global leader in ammonia, fertilizers and methanol for transportation and agriculture and Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) announced apartnership to deliver OCI’s program of gasification-based green methanol projects. The program will support the production of low-carbon feedstock…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it will invest in its facility in Ningbo, China, to significantly increase the capacity of organic peroxide products Perkadox 14 and Trigonox 101. With this investment, Nouryon will double the annual production capacity to…
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.), the world’s largest producer of ammonia, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a world leader in battery storage, announced a memorandum of…