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Eco-Friendly Housekeeping Assists Sustainability Goals
Facility monitoring, LED lighting and low-impact cleaners help reduce carbon footprint at chemical process industries (CPI) facilities It is not always possible to refine a process to help reduce a facility’s carbon footprint; however, embracing some newer trends in more…
Advancing battery technologies
Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE, www.energy.gov) announced that two Energy Innovation Hub teams would receive a total of $125 million ($62.5 million to each team) in funding over five years to “seed and accelerate next-generation technologies beyond…
Lithium Landscape: Activity is Charging Forward in the U.S.
Across several regions of the U.S., new lithium projects are emerging to build up a more localized supply chain Despite growing demand in the U.S. for batteries in consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EV), the vast majority of lithium extraction…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Industrial Electrolysis
Industrial electrolysis involves passing a direct electric current through an electrolyte to elicit a range of chemical reactions. Electrolyzers are key pieces of technology for producing many important industrial chemicals. This one-page reference reviews the basic general operation of an…
Plant Watch: October 2024
Plant Watch SK Energy to start commercial production of SAF September 16, 2024 — SK Energy, a subsidiary of SK Innovation Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.skinnovation.com), announced the completion of South Korea’s first dedicated production line for sustainable aviation fuel…
Automation Optimizes Rinsewater Recycling
Onsite recycling proved cost-effective for an aerospace supplier. With real-time feedback and control, a new automation upgrade takes process efficiency to the next level Throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), efficient and affordable approaches to wastewater treatment are of paramount…
Controlling Process Variables for Solid-State Battery Performance
Optimizing electrical conductivity in next-generation batteries depends on carefully controlling process variables, such as mixing, particle-size distribution and temperature. Presented here is a discussion of how these process variables affect battery performance In the evolving landscape of energy storage technologies,…
Scaleup underway for super-efficient silver refining
A significant contributor to the cost, energy consumption and carbon footprint of silver production is in the refining steps to remove, recover and recycle zinc from Parkes Crust silver-zinc intermetallic compounds. A fundamental redesign of the silver process to improve…
Scaling up brine electrolysis for high-purity lithium hydroxide
A significant portion of the energy and cost requirements in the production of lithium-ion batteries stems from the cost of converting lithium sulfate or lithium chloride into lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) of sufficient purity for battery use. Noram Electrolysis Systems,…
Pad-Reinforced Nozzles in Pressure Vessels
This article examines the application of reinforcing pads for strengthening nozzles in pressure vessels and the impact of the geometric gap that exists between the pad and the vessel shell Many common forms of nozzle connections in technological applications are…