The Iceman SM Series is a line of high-efficiency chillers available in capacities from 5 to 15 hp. Iceman chillers utilize Copeland Scroll Digital compressors, which are capable of providing variable-capacity output from 10 to 100% by axially separating internal…
The FFB-8 is a precision fluidized bath with exceptional stability and uniformity for temperature sensor calibration and heat-treatment processes. It offers a built-in dust extraction and collection system, as well as a wide operating range (122–1,292°F) and PID (proportional integral,…
The closure of several U.S. petroleum refineries over the past few months carries a simple message: petroleum refining is a tough business to be in these days. Paradoxical as it may seem to consumers, the recent rapid increase in fuel…
The approaches currently used by process integration specialists to assess the opportunities for the integration of reboilers are frequently erroneous and lead to proposals that have to be rejected at the detailed engineering stages or worse, to commissioned reboilers that…
The Simetal EAF FAST DRI is a new electric arc furnace that is specially designed for the use of direct reduced iron (DRI). It allows a continuous melting process, as electric energy input and DRI are supplied during tapping (tilting…
Various misconceptions arise when it comes to the thermal design of cooling towers. Sometimes related parameters, such as range, approach, effectiveness, liquid-to-gas ratio ( L/G), wet-bulb temperature, cooling water temperature, relative humidity, number of transfer units (NTU) and other terms…
Green Biologics Ltd. (GBL; Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K.; www.greenbiologics.com), an industrial biotechnology company has merged with Butylfuel Inc., a U.S.-based renewable chemicals and biofuels company. The new company will operate under the Green Biologics name and will continue to be headquartered…
In the long run (a few hundred years, perhaps) humans will exhaust the Earth’s current supply of fossil fuels. It is more accurate to say that before we exhaust the supply, humans will stop burning fossil fuels to produce electricity…
In the chemical process industries (CPI) it is relatively common to use a homogeneous two-phase flow model to predict the pressure drop through the shell-side of horizontal heat exchangers that handle two-phase mixtures. Recent experimental studies reported by HTFS [1,…
In the chemical process industries (CPI) it is relatively common to use a homogeneous two-phase flow model to predict the pressure drop through the shell-side of horizontal heat exchangers that handle two-phase mixtures. Recent experimental studies reported by HTFS [1,…