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Recently Published Books for the CPI: September 2019
September 2019 Booklist: The following recently published titles may be relevant to various sectors of the chemical process industries (CPI) Clean Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes: Efficient Technologies for Greenhouse Emissions Abatement. By Pascuale Cavaliere, Springer International Publishing, 2019, 596 pages,…
Show Preview: Weftec 2019
The 92nd annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (Weftec; www.weftec.org) will be held September 21–25 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Ill. Weftec features an extensive lineup of technical presentations focused on best practices and new…
Show Preview: Chem Show 2019
From October 22–24, professionals from all sectors of the chemical process industries (CPI) will meet in New York City for the 2019 Chem Show (www.chemshow.com). With over 275 exhibitors, Chem Show’s exhibit hall will feature demonstrations of new process equipment…
Addressing water scarcity
The threat of water scarcity may not be a top concern for those who have readily available freshwater to meet their daily needs. But for about two billion people who currently live in areas experiencing high water stress and the…
Integrated e-waste processing facility nears completion
Although it contains many valuable metals, electronic waste (e-waste) is an exceedingly difficult material stream to process, and the vast majority of e-waste is not recycled. EnviroLeach Technologies Inc. (Vancouver, B.C.; www.enviroleach.com) is currently preparing to start up a first-of-its-kind…
This multifunctional photocatalyst splits water with visible light
Oxysulfide semiconductors have narrow bandgaps — a property that makes them suitable photocatalysts for water splitting under irradiation with visible light (640 nm wavelength). That’s because the electronegative sulfide ions negatively shift the valence band edges of the corresponding oxides.…
The outlook for hydrogen as an energy carrier
Many countries are now making rapid advances in hydrogen energy technologies and strategy, and the rest of the world has much to learn from their experience, according to a new report — Advancing Hydrogen — compiled by a team from…
These magnetic ‘nanosprings’ decompose microplastics
Microplastics — a subgroup of plastics with an effective diameter less than 5 mm — are ubiquitous pollutants. They adsorb organic and metal pollutants that are ingested by aquatic organisms, and accumulated all the way up the food chain. Using…
New research solves debate over water-gas shift reaction mechanism
The water-gas shift reaction (WGS; in which water vapor is reacted with carbon monoxide over a copper-chromium-iron-oxide catalyst to yield hydrogen and CO2) is of paramount importance to the chemical industry, as it is a primary route to producing H2…
New oxocatalyst demonstrated for vinyl chloride monomer production
Recently, Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.tosoh.com) has applied a new, proprietary oxocatalyst in the oxychlorination process for making ethylene dichloride (EDC) from ethylene, HCl, and O2 in its vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) manufacturing process. The performance boost anticipated from simulation…