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CE Podcast: Bentley Systems’ Anne-Marie Walters Discusses Digital Twins

Listen to the latest episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, where I interview Anne-Marie Walters, industry marketing director for the process industries at Bentley Systems, about the use and impact of digital twins at chemical process industries (CPI) facilities.  Digital…

AI and Position-Sensing Drive Robotics Expansion

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and improved technologies for providing robots with positional awareness have driven an expansion of robotics use in a variety of application areas across the chemical process industries (CPI) Robots have been fixtures on discrete-product manufacturing…

AI-Driven Analytics for Chemicals

During 2020 the Chemicals Industry became a highly dynamic environment increasing the need for companies to adapt to different demands and production loads. Among the top enablers to help face these uncertainties are Cloud and Artificial Intelligence. During this webinar,…

Software Powers the CPI

IIoT technologies have enabled software platforms that are more powerful than ever, but fundamental engineering principles are still at the heart of next-generation digital transformation It is clear that the emergence of industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies has greatly…

The influence of IIoT in the dewatering process step of pigment production

Color pigments are among the most complex end products in the chemical industry because fine grinding of the pigments makes very high demands on the machine technology used when processing them. Finest and absolutely spatter-free end grain sizes, batch and…

Recently Published Books for November 2020

The following titles are recently published books of potential interest to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI) Human Factor and Reliability Analysis to Prevent Losses in Industrial Processes: An Operational Culture Perspective. By Salvador Avila Filho, Ivone Conceicao…

CoriolisMaster: The SmartSensor solution

— ABB’s CoriolisMaster For accurate flow and density measurement of liquids and gases. Learn more about CoriolisMaster

The Big 6 flowmeter technologies: Where to use them and why

WHITE PAPER — The Big 6 flowmeter technologies: Where to use them and why Flow is one of the most frequently measured process variables throughout industry, and one where the choice in measurement technology is critical. In fact, no single…

CPI Bookshelf: September 2020

The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): Trevor Kletz Compendium: How his Best Process Stories are Still Relevant Today. Andy Brazier, Fiona MacLeod, David Edwards and others, Elsevier Press, 2020,…

Make your chemical centrifuge ready for the future

In the chemical industry, the availability and reliability of your equipment is key if you want to keep producing the purest end product in a way that is also cost-effective. In many agrochemical and base chemical applications as well as…