Overcoming Corrosive Processes with High-Alloyed Stainless Steels
Advanced high-alloyed stainless steels with austenitic properties can address corrosion concerns in challenging phosphoric and…
Cover Story
What's Corroding Your Control Room?
Corrosion-induced failures are frequent in the electronics products used in control rooms, but proper environmental…
Commentary
The 2017 Kirkpatrick Award
Every other year, Chemical Engineering honors the most-noteworthy chemical engineering technology that was commercialized anywhere…
In The News
Newsfronts
3-D Printing for Finished Products
Moving 3-D printing beyond prototyping toward production of finished parts has driven innovation and spurred…
Smart Flow Monitoring for Better Process Control
Tighter control, increased safety and versatility result from improved flow-measurement technology Flow monitoring and control…
Chementator
Chementator Briefs
HVAC cooling tower A newly introduced cooling tower for building heating, ventilation and air conditioning…
Paint a thermoelectric device onto any shaped surface to recover waste heat
Scientists from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST; Ulsan, South Korea; www.unist.ac.kr), led…
Laminate packaging that is easier to recycle
A collaboration between ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (EMCC; Spring, Tex.; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) and Thanh Phu Plastic Packaging…
This process converts organic food waste to liquid fertilizer
Large supermarkets routinely waste 500 lb of food daily from past-due produce, deli and meat…
A very fast way to continuously synthesize zeolites
For a long time, it has been believed that the crystallization of zeolites is, by…
Australians move to supply vanadium for redox flow batteries
Two Australian companies — Australian Vanadium Ltd. (AVL; www.australianvanadium.com.au) and TNG Ltd. (both Perth; www.tngltd.com.au)…
Japanese consortium synthesize bifunctional oxygen-reaction catalysts
Researchers from the group of professor Ikuya Yamada at Osaka Prefecture University (Osaka, Japan; www.osakafu-u.ac.jp),…
An inexpensive adsorbant for removing silver from wastewater
The release of silver from industrial wastewater has caused serious environmental problems. Many methods have…
A process for making longer carbon nanotubes
A new commercial manufacturing process for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) produces tubes in the range of…
On-site carbon monoxide generation takes the next step
Gas Innovations (La Porte, Tex.; www.gasinnovations.com) has signed a 15-year, pay-per-use agreement with Haldor Topsøe…
Business News
Business News - January 2017
Plant Watch Linde starts up CO 2 plant in Fort Worth December 12, 2016 —…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
High Purity Chemicals: Processing Equipment Essentials
Some practical tips regarding the design and fabrication of piping systems and equipment for high-purity…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at your Fingertips: Solids-blending processes
Mixing and blending of bulk solids is common in pharmaceutical and food manufacturing, specialty chemicals,…
Technology Profile
Technology Profile: Ethylene Glycol Production from Synthesis Gas
This column is based on “Ethylene glycol production from Syngas - Cost Analysis,” a report…
Engineering Practice
The CPI Construction Boom: Project Delivery in a New Landscape
Companies need more creative ways to deal with complex and ever-changing market and technical challenges…
Eye on Flare Systems
Proper gas sampling is essential to meet operating and regulatory objectives Flares are used extensively…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Pumps
This sump pump ensures unrestricted flow The Series 900 Industrial Vertical Immersion Vortex Sump Pump…
New Products
Comprehensive protection for laboratory workers
Westex ShieldCXP is a protective fabric (photo) that defends the wearer against hazards from both…
This smart gearbox detects fugitive emissions
This company is developing a smart gearbox designed with an extra function for leak detection.…
Microscope for automatic filter-patch analysis as per ISO 4407
At Hanover Fair 2017, this company will introduce an optical microscope image-analyzing system designed to…
Hygienic ball valves constructed from stainless steel
This company now offers its simple and robust hygienic ball valves with stainless-steel construction (photo),…
Compact combustion monitor based on TDL technology
The LaserGas III CO combustion analyzer (photo) is an Ex-d certified tunable-diode-laser (TDL) carbon monoxide…
Configuration software matches gearbox and motors
Partnering with Marathon Motors, Hub City and PARTSolutions, this company has created product-configuration software that…
A smart HMI system for nonhazardous areas
The VisuNet GXP human machine interface (HMI) represents the new generation of intelligent “thin client”…
This data-acquisition system is updated for EtherNet/IP
The Memograph M RSG45 Data Manager (photo), a data-acquisition system for small process-control applications, now…
A new tablet PC for use in hazardous areas
Agile X IS (photo) is a 10.1-in. tablet PC system that is certified to ATEX…
Air stripping for water decontamination
The E-Z Tray air stripper (photo) is a sliding-tray, stainless-steel air stripper used for removing…
This motor portfolio includes new series up to 70 MW
With its new high-voltage motor series Simotics HV HP (photo), this company is now able…
Simplify instrumentation management in any location
The Field Information Manager 1.1 Handheld Edition software enables users to do configuration, parametrization and…
This app streamlines commissioning and startup
The eStart mobile app (photo) is used during project commissioning and startup to digitally gather…