Preventing Electrostatic Explosions and Fires
There are many occasions in chemical processing plants where electrostatic charge generation and accumulation can…
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The 2021 Kirkpatrick Award: Call for nominations
Since 1933, Chemical Engineering has honored noteworthy chemical engineering technologies that have advanced to the…
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New Ways to Achieve Better Control of Emissions
New and improved catalysts and other process innovations are helping the chemical process industries (CPI)…
Chementator
Storing excess electricity as high-temperature heat
Late last November, the energy-transition start-up company Lumenion GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.lumenion.com) received the 2020…
A breakthrough in artificial intelligence-enabled materials discovery
A groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, dubbed CAMEO (Closed-Loop Autonomous System for Materials Exploration), rapidly…
Membrane extraction improves biofuel yield
Typically, the production of fuel-grade chemicals, such as butanol, from biomass fermentation processes involves low-yield…
January Chementator Briefs
MDI Production Late last year, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) started up a pilot plant…
Enhancing photocatalytic activity by tuning wall thickness of TiO2 nanotubes
Titanium dioxide is well known as a photocatalyst, and is especially promising for degrading organic-based…
Immobilizing enzymes for biosensors
A new technique for making less-expensive, more-efficient biological enzyme hybrids could have widespread applications, including…
Radiative cooling: A coating for windows that also cools
A Korean team has proposed an approach for passive radiative cooling. The team, which includes…
Process for recycling of cotton garments produces multi-ton quantities for testing
A process developed by Evrnu (Seattle, Wash.; www.evrnu.com) to regenerate cotton fibers from waste fabric…
Membrane-based system for low-cost CO2 capture to be demonstrated at engineering scale
A new membrane technology for separating carbon dioxide from exhaust gas will be scaled up…
Business News
Business News: January 2021
Plant Watch LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on 100% renewable power December 14,…
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Moisture Measurement in Solid Materials
Determining moisture levels in solid materials is important for product quality, handling properties and other…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at your Fingertips: Nickel-based Superalloys
Superalloys, also known as high-performance alloys, are considered as materials of construction for process equipment…
Technology Profile
Technology Profile: Dimethyl Ether Production from Natural Gas and Carbon Dioxide
This column is based on “Dimethyl Ether Production from Natural Gas and CO2 (Direct Method)…
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Practicing Year-Round Waste Compliance
There are many regulations surrounding the production of waste at manufacturing facilities. By approaching regulatory…
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Focus on Flow Measurement & Control
Flowmeter with pressure and temperature sensors, too The Proline Prosonic Flow G flowmeter (photo) can…
New Products
Optimize industrial training with immersive virtual reality
This company’s Immersive Field Simulator (photo) is an advanced industrial-training solution that combines 3D immersive…
Achieve repeatable reactions with this one-step solution
This company’s Continuous Hybrid Reactor (CHR; photo) has been designed to facilitate safe, efficient, repeatable…
This IBC now also has FM approval
The Ecobulk SX-D intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo) is specially fitted with a steel hull…
These dust monitors now have hazardous-location approvals
The DustAlarm ES and DustTrend ES series (photo) of broken-bag detectors and dust-emission trend-monitoring systems…
A new turbopump for ion-implantation applications
HiPace 2800 IT (photo) is a turbomolecular pump especially dedicated for ion-implantation applications. The rotor…
Cr-free corrosion inhibitors provide long-lasting protection
This company’s chromium-free corrosion-inhibiting technology, Intelli-ion, utilizes novel active ingredients, which are attached onto a…
A needle valve for high-pressure applications
This company’s new high-pressure needle valve (HPNV; photo) is designed for four pressure ranges of…
Thermal and visible videoscope for underground utility vaults
The new FLIR VS290-32 (photo) is said to be an industry-first videoscope that combines thermal…
An industrial edge platform for data processing
With the new Industrial Edge Management system (photo), users can remotely monitor the status of…
Explosion-protected products are now CCC-compliant
To secure access to the Chinese market, this company has obtained the China Compulsory Certification…
Purify complex bio-based solutions with these new resins
Lewatit PH 1074 HEP (photo) is the newest product in this company’s portfolio of ion-exchange…
New cleaning agent rapidly breaks down fats and greases
Pure-OX FOAM (photo) is a peroxide-based foaming detergent specifically formulated for tough organic soils on…
Customizable mobile totes for biopharmaceutical applications
This company has introduced the KDT series of configurable knockdown mobile totes (photo) for the…
New industrial PCs create a secure visualization system
The Allen-Bradley VersaView 6300 PCs and thin clients (photo) combine with this company’s FactoryTalk View…
Powder sifters automatically remove foreign objects
GS centrifugal sifters (photo) automatically capture and remove foreign objects from granular and powdered product…
A sanitary rotary mixer that is washdown-rated
The Model MX-5-S316L sanitary rotary-batch mini-mixer (photo) can de-agglomerate and blend up to 5 ft3…
Automatically dispense a variety of media
The Bench Cat system (photo) is designed for automatically dispensing a variety of materials, including…
A reliable and versatile pneumatic pressure controller
PMT Model 40 pneumatic pressure controllers (photo) are available in standard control modes of 100%…
New high-volume granulation equipment improves yield
By combining the HSM 2000 X.ONE high-shear mixer and FBE 1800 X.ONE fluidized-bed units, this…
Protect potable water with this diverse product family
The VaultSafe product line (photo) is designed to protect potable water systems from contaminated floodwaters,…