Environment, Health, Safety & Security
Precise measurement technology for innovative plastic recycling
This white paper explores how enespa ag is using advanced process measurement technology to support the chemical recycling of plastic waste through pyrolysis. Learn how precise pressure, temperature, level and flow measurements help improve process stability, maximize plant availability…
Industrial Heat Pumps for Waste-Heat Upgrading
Electrification of industrial processes using heat pumps is moving from niche applications toward the mainstream, but challenges to their implementation remain Decarbonization initiatives have focused attention on the production of process heat for industrial operations without the combustion of fossil…
Testing Hydrogen Infrastructure Materials: A Practical Framework
As hydrogen infrastructure expands, existing material-qualification frameworks must keep pace with hydrogen-specific degradation risks, such as embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking, permeation and accelerated aging Hydrogen infrastructure deployment is speeding up in the chemical process industries (CPI). However, the material qualification…
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 That framing is outdated, and for a growing number of manufacturers, it is costing…
Bookshelf: Recently published books for the chemical process industries (CPI)
The following first-edition books were recently published and may have relevance for CPI professionals: Process Control: Bringing Academia and Industry Together. Edited by Pawel Domanski, Elsevier Publishing, May 2026, 508 pages, $191.25. Wastewater Valorization: Turning Effluents into…
Alignment on worker chemical safety
In the U.S., worker chemical safety is a key concern at a wide range of industrial facilities. The current regulatory framework for worker chemical safety is overseen by two federal agencies: traditionally, by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA;…
CSB issues final report on 2025 coke-oven gas explosion in Pennsylvania
Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) released its final report on the fatal August 11, 2025, explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works facility in Clairton, Pennsylvania. The incident occurred when toxic…
VOC Control: Solvent Recovery Versus Oxidation
Regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) are commonly used for abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), but in some cases, solvent-recovery systems can realize significant economic and environmental benefits In the field of industrial air-pollution control, the regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) is…
Falling Films in Vessel CIP Applications
Applying an understanding of flow regimes and turbulence to clean-in-place (CIP) processes can optimize CIP cleaning efficiency, reducing water, solvent, energy and chemical use, while maintaining cGMP cleaning performance For vessels and bioreactors in bioprocessing applications, designing clean-in-place (CIP) cycles…
Nuberg supplies emergency chlorine absorption system for Brinsa SA in Colombia
Nuberg EPC (Uttar Pradesh, India; www.nubergepc.com), the global engineering and EPC arm of the Nuberg Group, has successfully executed the design and supply of a 100–150 ton/d emergency chlorine absorption system for Brinsa S.A. (Zipaquira, Colombia; www.brinsa.com.co), located in Bogotá,…