Modern Rupture Discs Support Increased Plant Capacity
The use of today’s high-performance rupture disc designs can help to reduce many common operating…
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Commentary
Nicholas Chopey Scholarship awarded
Chemical Engineering has been a leading source for technology and news for the chemical process…
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Innovation and Demand Keeps Glass Industry Afloat
Despite competition from many new players, the glassmaking sector is rebounding with new applications and…
New Ways to Deal With Old Heat-Transfer Issues
New developments in heat exchangers solve common problems and enhance performance Chemical processors are no…
Chementator
Chementator Briefs
Cooling-tower motor A new electric motor for driving cooling-tower fans features a design that prevents…
Making motors intelligent
At the Hannover trade fair (April 24–29; Hannover, Germany), ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) introduced a…
Commercial launch for a hybrid wastewater-treatment process
A hybrid process that combines micro-flotation and flat-sheet ceramic-membrane filtration to remove oil and suspended…
Sun and rain generate electricity in this solar cell
An all-weather solar cell that generates electricity by both sunlight and rain has been developed…
Diamond-based electrodes allow handling of difficult-to-treat wastewaters
A scaled-up version of an electrochemical cell with boron-doped diamond electrodes has been introduced, and…
Imitating cactus plants to improve membrane performance
Regulation of water content in polymeric membranes is important in several applications, including proton-exchange fuel…
The photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into CO
Conversion of carbon dioxide into useful carbon sources, such as carbon monoxide, formic acid and…
A direct route for making polycarbonate from CO2 and diols
A direct copolymerization of carbon dioxide and diols has been achieved by Keiichi Tomishige and…
Collaboration commercializing technology for reusing complex catalysts
The manufacture of pharmaceuticals and many fine chemicals requires costly, toxic catalysts with metal atoms…
This handheld chemical analyzer connects to smartphones
A new smartphone-operated portable chemical analyzer provides a platform for chemical leak detection and other…
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Plant Watch Ineos to build world-scale linear alpha-olefins unit in Texas May 17, 2016 — Ineos (Rolle,…
Technical & Practical
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An Up-Close Look at Electropositive Filtration
Electropositive filters take advantage of surface-charge effects to filter nanometer-sized particles. Provided here is an…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Key Reactions for the Petrochemical Industry
A handful of compounds derived from natural gas and crude petroleum are converted into a…
Technology Profile
Precipitated Calcium Carbonate from Limestone
This column is based on “Calcium Carbonate Production from Limestone: Cost Analysis,” a report published…
Engineering Practice
Rapid Prediction of Prandtl Number of Compressed Air
Two methods are presented and compared for quickly calculating this important, yet neglected parameter Over…
Vortex Breakers in Practice
When vortex formation limits outflow from a tank, consider a disc-type vortex breaker Chemical engineers…
Field Troubleshooting 101 and How to Get the Job Done
A major part of field work lies in troubleshooting problems: finding out why a system…
Equipment & Services
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Sensors and Detectors
Solid-state sensor protects machinery from shocks The AGLD Series Ground Fault Sensors (photo) keep machinery…
New Products
Expanded throughput is available with these shredders
The new generation of the XRipper twin-shaft shredder is designed to reduce the size of…
New PE resins allow for faster film-production rates
Developed through advanced catalyst technology and process research, Exceed XP performance polymers are specifically designed…
Enhanced safety is among the upgrades to these pumps
The newly upgraded mRoy line of metering pumps includes new features for improved safety, improved…
This transmitter software reduces process upsets
Micro Motion Advanced Phase Measurement (APM; photo) is a software option available on this company’s…
This process controller features advanced data logging
The F4T version 3.0 temperature and process controller (photo) features advanced data logging and graphical…
Faster fluid management for biopharmacuticals
Lynx CDR connectors allow efficient fluid management through sterile connection, disconnection and reconnection, providing an…
Weld-free coiled tubing in lengths exceeding 1,000 m
This company has developed a method enabling the production of stainless coiled tubing (photo) in…
Interconnect industrial software systems of all sizes
The recently introduced Matrikon OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Software Development Kit (SDK) is a…
Metallic gear pumps with very few parts
The Eclipse Series of metallic gear (photo) pumps features 12 different models to handle a…
An easily expandable wireless I/O system
The new Multi-Point Wireless I/O system allows users to transfer I/O or Modbus data to…
Portable balances that can be used in vapor-filled atmospheres
The EK-EP Series of intrinsically safe compact balances (photo) are approved for both U.S. and…
All-new industrial thin client for virtualized HMI systems
The BTC01 is a new standalone industrial-box thin client that is ideal for modular virtualized…
A cloud-based service for cylinder inventory
This company has introduced a new cloud-based version of its gas cylinder inventory intelligence service,…
Use this software for steel and concrete structural designs
The recently released Engineer 16 structural-design software features over 350 updates upon previous versions, including…
New pulsation dampener design for AODD pumps
This company has launched a new pulsation dampener designed specifically for air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps.…
An ultrasonic sensor for layer detection in a variety of materials
The UD18-2 ultrasonic sensor for double layer and splice detection (photo) is able to determine…
These limit switches require no batteries
This company’s line of wireless limit switches (photo) feature an internal electrodynamic energy generator —…
A single-use, stirred-tank bioreactor for scalable cell culture
The Allegro STR 1000 single-use, 1,000-L stirred-tank reactor (photo) provides scalable cell culture in a…
An aluminum version of this AODD pump is now available
The HS430S Advanced FIT 1.5-in. high-pressure AODD pump is now available in an aluminum version…
These low-emission burners produce less noise
Developed with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), as well as practical combustion tests, the ACE low-emission…
Perform wear tests onsite with this fully mobile mixer
A mobile version of this company’s FKM 600 ploughshare mixer, dubbed Mixer in the Box…