Time and Length Scales of Mixing: The Macro Scale Successfully scaling up a mixing process involves understanding several important timescale parameters that can impact…
Newsfronts Electric Vehicles Drive Performance Polymers Higher-volume production of battery-powered vehicles is driving the development of high-performance polymers with improved properties…
A project to further develop solar-thermal-energy storage technology Synhelion S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland; www.synhelion.com) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology…
Low-energy hydrogenation without H2 gas Hydrogenation is an important reaction in many sectors of the chemical process industries (CPI), but…
Chementator briefs Toxicology testing The world’s first toxicology-testing strategy without animal testing has been approved by the…
Piloting a process that makes hydrogen and carbon from methane Next year, construction will begin on an industrial-scale pilot plant to further develop a new…
This sustainable, supercharged catalyst cleans up mold A family of oxidation catalysts known as TAML has been revamped to increase activity by…
Anti-biofouling coating for desalination membranes extends lifetimes Buildup of biofouling on membranal surfaces necessitates treatments with corrosive chemicals, such as hydrochloric acid,…
Recovering carbon black from waste tires Until now, waste tires have been used mainly for recovering energy. Only small proportions of…
Collect more solar energy and waste heat for process water heating A new technology developed by Enertopia Corp. (Kelowna, B.C., Canada; www.enertopia.com) aims to improve the…
Sustainable mining of raw materials from thermal springs According to statistics from the World Bank, thousands of tons of valuable minerals are imported…
Business News Business News: August 2021 Plant Watch Chemours breaks ground on $93-million mining facility in Florida July 14, 2021 —…
Feature Report Hydrogen Piping Systems: Mitigating Pitfalls by Design This overview presents guidance for the safe design of piping systems that are used for…
Facts at Your Fingertips Facts At Your Fingertips: Digitalization of Heat Transfer Fluid Systems The spread of COVID-19 opened the world’s eyes to the weakness of much of its…
Technology Profile Technology Profile: Production of Nitrogen from Air Nitrogen (N2) makes up 78% of ambient air (20.95% of air is oxygen). N2 is…
Solids Processing Considerations for Solid Catalyst Loading Special considerations must be made for loading expensive solid catalyst materials into fixed-bed and tubular…
Environmental Manager Hazardous Materials: What to Do When Disaster Strikes Detailed plans for handling hazardous materials should be a central part of any chemical plant’s…
Focus Focus on Software Enterprise-level software simplifies data management Last month, this company launched its Plantweb Optics Data Lake…
A 1,000-gal/min pump for horizontal drilling The new GD 800HDD pump (photo) has an extremely high flowrate of more than 1,000…
Remote I/O IS1+ as an edge gateway for Zones 1 and 2 Alongside its proven remote input/output (I/O) functionality, IS1+ (photo) is now also available for use…
Certify cables with this hand-held device The new WireXpert 500 cable tester (photo) targets copper cabling up to Cat 6A standards.…
UL-rated pressure switches for explosive environments The new 703-U and 703-UJ Series of UL-rated, explosion-proof pressure switches (photo) are suitable for…
A new dispersing system for slurry production The new Batt-TDS series of powder-dispersing systems (photo) is designed for the development and industrial…
Learn more about particles with this imaging accessory This company launched the Hydro Insight, a dynamic imaging accessory for its Mastersizer 3000 particle…
Explosion-proof automated V-ball valve packages This company has introduced what is said to be industry’s first explosion-proof electric-actuated stainless-steel two-piece…
High-shear granulator forcompacting powdery foodstuffs This company has developed a granulator (photo) designed for compacting bulk goods, such as tea,…
Show Previews Show Preview -- Connected Plant Conference 2021 Global digitalization professionals will convene in Austin, Tex. for the 2021 Connected Plant Conference (www.connectedplantconference.com),…