Selecting footwear for plant personnel is not a “one size fits all” situation — various factors must be considered to ensure the best shoe for a specific application Chemical manufacturing plants generally have questions about their overall safety protection program,…
By carefully considering equipment and plant design in processes involving powdered materials, fugitive dust issues can be reduced significantly Powdered ingredients that unintentionally leak from equipment in a manufacturing plant are known as fugitive dust. The risks associated with fugitive…
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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…
Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.; www.monolithmaterials.com), a leader in clean energy and chemical production, today announced it plans to use its proprietary process to produce approximately 275,000 metric tons per year of carbon-free anhydrous ammonia in the United States. Current ammonia…
Improved understanding of the causes of piping leaks can reduce the frequency of leaks and lead to significantly better performance over time Leakage in pipes is an ongoing problem in research and development facilities across many sectors of the chemical…
— APPLICATION NOTE Metering gas in renewable energy plants with Swirl flowmeter FSS430, FSS450 Design Description For a direct energy metering the design has to consist of a methane analyzer to measure the volumetric methane content of the gas and…
— BROCHURE Wet process analyzer for FPD and solar cell manufacturing for semi-conductors Industry leader With years of experience and thousands of process monitoring installations, ABB is the leading supplier of fiber optic-based spectrometers to the semiconductor industry. ABB’s solution…
WHITE PAPER — Hydrofluoric acid alkylation (HFU) unit optimization: The use of robust pre-calibrated on-line analyzer technology for the measurement of HF acid purity This white paper aims to illustrate how the fast response times and excellent repeatability of an…
When making a change in your process, do not overlook new potential hazards that may arise, as discussed here Large-scale chemical processing can be inherently risky. This is especially important to keep in mind when making changes to a process.…