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Facts At Your Fingertips: Hydrogen Safety Risks and Fire Protection
Hydrogen requires careful handling. It is colorless, odorless and highly flammable across a broad range of concentrations. As the lightest gas, it rises quickly and can accumulate in hard-to-detect areas. Without proper precautions, even a small leak can lead to…
Nozzle Penetrations in Pressure Vessels: Two Methods for Reinforcement Design
Pressure vessels are weakened when nozzles must be introduced, and reinforcement is required to compensate. Presented here are two methods for calculating the necessary reinforcement When pressure vessels are penetrated for introducing nozzles, the vessel is weakened and must be…
Facts At Your Fingertips: How Purification Unlocks Advanced Chemical Recycling
Chemical recycling refers to a set of technologies that convert plastic waste into raw materials by breaking down long polymer chains into shorter molecules (monomers), enabling the creation new chemicals, fuels or virgin-quality plastics. Key chemical recycling methods for plastics…
Transitioning from Academia to the Engineering Workforce
Moving from engineering student to engineering employee can be a challenge, but there are strategies to help facilitate the transition New college graduates provide a continued source of engineering talent to companies, government agencies and other organizations. However, integrating new…
New techniques improve abilities of hybrid quantum-classical computer systems in catalyst design
By leveraging the peculiar laws of quantum physics, quantum computing aims to render currently intractable scientific problems feasible. Using quantum-enhanced simulations for accelerating catalyst design is an example of an area where quantum computers could be brought to bear on…
Protein nanocages: Selective mini-concentrators for critical metals
Protein nanocages are hollow structures that can be used for a variety of applications in medical fields, including for drug and vaccine delivery. Now, groundbreaking work from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt; www.pitt.edu) has shown that a class of protein…
Corrosion Protection and Redundancy: Key Ingredients to the Maintenance Recipe
Equipment redundancy, supported by impactful corrosion protection, can create a potent combination for avoiding unplanned downtime In the chemical process industries (CPI), production would come to a standstill without process heating and cooling systems. There would be no cracking and…
Business News: October 2025
Plant Watch Teijin Frontier to expand production of polyester filament yarn in Thailand September 16, 2025 — Teijin Frontier Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.teijin-frontier.com) will expand production capacity for high-tenacity recycled polyester filament yarn used in industrial applications, such as tire…
October 2025 Editorial Roundup Video
Watch the Chemical Engineering editorial staff discuss what to expect from the October issue https://youtu.be/oPBwls6CSt0
Energy Vault, PG&E complete world’s first ultra-long-duration hybrid battery +hydrogen energy-storage microgrid
Energy Vault Holdings Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), today announced the successful completion and commercial operation of the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC),…