This company’s vibrating fluid-bed dryers (photo) are engineered with a series of proprietary design innovations that protect and maintain particle size and shape during processing to prevent costly product attrition. Featuring a narrow-slot, wedgewire conveying surface that provides uniform air…
The new IPL Assurance software provides realtime predictive analytics on the health and availability of safety instrumented systems (SIS), alarm management systems and other independent protection layers (IPL). In addition to managing operational risk, IPL Assurance reduces compliance costs by…
The Guedu vertical dryers (photo) offer benefits for drying powders in the chemical process industries, including cosmetics and food applications. The vertical dryers operate differently than hot-air and tray dryers. Powder is stirred under vacuum, which shortens the drying time…
The No. 860 is a 500°F truck oven (photo) that is currently used for post-cure of rubber parts. Workspace dimensions of this oven measure 36-in. width, 36-in. depth and 60-in. height. The oven uses Nicrome-wire heating elements for a power…
This company’s line of condensing and chiller units are now available in explosion-proof designs (photo). The product line consists of a number of models, including air-cooled condensing units, remote air-cooled condensers, water-cooled chillers and evaporative condensing chillers for both indoor…
Powered by compressed air, the Material Mover is a portable, inline vacuum system that was developed to transport materials. Commonly used to clean combines and seeders, the Material Mover is ideal for work in seed plants or mills where there…
The Ident-Ex 01 for Div. 1 / Zone 1 & 21 (photo) is a powerful, intrinsically safe all-in-one barcode scanner and RFID reader for use in hazardous areas. With its unique modular design, the ultra-rugged Bluetooth-capable Ident-Ex 01 can be…
The Sitrans TO500 multipoint temperature measuring system (photo) enables complex temperature measurements and detection of the precise position of critical hotspots in a variety of applications, including tubular and tube-bundle reactors. The fiber-optics-based device uses a fiber Bragg grating (FBG)…
Whether to remove solid contaminants from a liquid or separate a solid product from a solvent, solid-liquid (S-L) separation is a common unit operation across the chemical process industries (CPI). This one-page reference provides an overview of S-L separation methods,…
This column is based on “MTBE production from Raffinate-1 - Cost Analysis,” a report published by Intratec. It can be found at: www.intratec.us/analysis/mtbe-production-cost. Methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) is an organic compound used mainly as a fuel additive to enhance octane…