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Environmental Controls Can Reduce Operating Costs, Not Just Emissions
For a long time, air-pollution control equipment was budgeted the way a company budgets for fire insurance: a necessary cost with no expectation of a return. That framing is outdated, and for a growing number of manufacturers, it is costing…
Physics-Rooted, Non-Invasive Industrial Temperature Sensors Drive Accuracy While Providing Flexibility
Enhanced thermal coupling and physical pipe conditioning techniques combine the accuracy of traditional thermowell-inserted thermometers with the application flexibility of non-invasive temperature measurement methods. Temperature is one of the most critical process variables in these environments, and its accurate measurement…
Evaluating Dry Electrode Processing for the Next Generation of Battery Manufacturing
The battery industry has spent much of the past decade focused on chemistry. New cathode formulations, silicon-rich anodes, lithium metal, solid electrolytes and alternative materials continue to push the boundaries of energy density, charging speed and safety. Those advances deserve…
Treating Safety Datasheets as Living Process Safety Records
A regulatory deadline rarely reaches into every document a site keeps on file, yet that is close to what OSHA's 2024 revision of the Hazard Communication Standard set in motion. The rule folds the seventh edition of the Globally Harmonized…
Smart Instrumentation for Advanced Measurement in Specialty Chemical Manufacturing
Strategic application of advanced measurement technologies enhances flexibility, availability, safety, and sustainability across operations The specialty chemicals sector is a vital segment of the chemical process industries (CPI) and the wider economy. This sector delivers high-value products for countless applications,…
A Practical Framework for Managing Raw-Material Changes in Chemical Manufacturing
Today’s environment features a host of factors that challenge raw-material assumptions. Whether it be price fluctuation, changing trade policy or supply constraints, chemical manufacturers are operating without consistency. Availability and cost of materials are showing up as question marks. This…
Deploying AI Copilots for P&ID Workflows: What EPC Firms Must Get Right
Before adopting Graph-RAG copilots for piping and instrumentation design, chemical process firms need data governance, safety guardrails and a clear human-in-the-loop workflow, not just a language model. Every process engineer who has worked through Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) knows the…
Lithium Hydroxide Production: How Does Electrolysis Stack Up on Cost?
The growing demand for lithium, driven by the rapid expansion of electric vehicles and energy storage systems, has intensified interest in more sustainable and economically viable refining technologies that permit domestic refining capacity. Electrolysis-based lithium refining presents a promising alternative…
Why Process Industries Need Causal AI, Not Just Predictive Maintenance
Root-cause analysis investigations can be streamlined with artificial intelligence (AI), but only if it can be explained by human engineers Across the process industries, manufacturers are under pressure to improve reliability, efficiency and output while operating with leaner teams and…