Burner Technologies and Concepts: Meeting Emissions-Reduction Goals
To meet bold sustainability targets, new burner technologies and control configurations are being developed to…
Cover Story
Commentary
A chemical industry profile
Last month, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; www.acc.org) released its 2022 edition of the “Guide…
In The News
Newsfronts
New Software Capabilities with Digitalization
Latest software combines the best of traditional physics-based and empirical approaches with advanced digitalization technologies…
Chementator
Evonik is scaling up membrane-based lithium recycling
Evonik Industries Ag (Essen, Germany) has announced progress to make the recycling of lithium simpler,…
Silicate-rock-based material can replace flyash in cement, lowering costs and CO2
Flyash, a waste byproduct from coal burning, has been used effectively as a supplementary cementitious…
A new electrolyte supercharges sodium-ion batteries
Sodium-ion batteries have many advantages over lithium-ion batteries due to sodium’s abundance and low cost.…
A step closer to transition-metal catalysis with aluminum
Chemists from the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg (Germany;…
This particle sensor exploits quantum effects for real-time process optimization
Last month at Achema 2022 (August 22–26; Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Q.ANT GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany;…
Chementator briefs
Zero-spin Silicon Natural silicon consists of three isotopes: 28Si (92.2%) and 30Si (3.1%) — each…
Print the filter shape needed
An adaptable sintered filter element that is manufactured by 3D printing will be introduced this…
Energy costs cut by 50% for high-strength aluminum alloys
Aluminum alloy 7075 has excellent mechanical properties, including high strength for lightweighting applications, but its…
Zero-CO2 ethane cracker technology is available commercially
A next-generation ethane-feed steam cracker designed by Lummus Technology (Houston; www.lummus.com) has the ability to…
Extracting pressurized hydrogen from ammonia, methane and biogas
Proton ceramic cells that couple endothermic steam reforming with heat from electrochemical gas separation and…
Business News
Business News: September 2022
Plant Watch Evonik’s Coating Additives business expands production capacity in Taiwan August 16, 2022 —…
Technical & Practical
Feature Report
Selection Guide for Solids-Drying Systems
Information provided here offers a basic primer on the features and functions of dryer types,…
Rotary Drying: Developing a Process in a Test Setting
Testing not only illustrates proof of process and provides other critical assurances, but it also…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts At Your Fingertips: Gas Dispersion in Liquids
Injecting gases through a diffuser into a liquid is an important aspect of many operations…
Equipment & Services
Focus
Compressors, Fans, Blowers
Steel alloy compressor valve offers lower installed cost Unlike its stainless-steel counterpart, designated StraightFlo SS…
New Products
Transport hazardous goods with this new IBC
The new Ecobulk SX-D intermediate bulk container (IBC; photo) is designed for transporting hazardous goods,…
Silicone-coated gloves for window manufacturing
The RepTek Grip silicone palm-coated gloves provide adhesion resistance paired with high cut resistance and…
Tools for improving wire connections to terminals.
Properly installed ferrules provide dependable wire terminations to both screw and push-in terminals, but installers…
A biosolids granulator for the treatment of sewage
The biosolids granulator (photo) is a dry-on-demand system for the treatment of sewage sludge from…
This conveying system is stable and reliable
The E-finity (photo) is a patented, continuous dense-phase conveyor system for fragile materials. Precise pressure…
Optimized safety and efficiency in confined-space operations
The new X-Viz confined space monitoring system (photo) is a complete safety-monitoring system designed to…
Reusable shipping container for hazardous materials
Capsuloc (photo) is a new reusable shipping container for transporting flammable liquids. Made of hard…
This butterfly valve has new features
The Neles Q-Disc butterfly valve (photo) has a new high-performance feature to help with flow…
Contact angle technology for wetting measurements in QC
With Ayríís (photo), this company has optimized the contact-angle method for quality assurance and developed…
A compact pelletizing plant for iron-ore processing
This company has optimized its existing induration technology, offering and launched its Compact-sized Pellet Plant…
An analyzer for materials-control analysis
The SpectroMAXx LMX10 arc/spark optical emission spectrometry (OES) analyzer (photo) performs fast, accurate, advanced elemental…
A new type of pellet mill for producing green forage
Specially developed for green forage pelleting, the 55-1500 pellet mill (photo) is designed to produce…
Efficient cooling of die-cast components with hotspots
Demanding die-cast components, such as structural components in the automotive sector (megacastings), place special requirements…
Achieve fast, high-resolution detection with this spectrometer
The EDX-7200 energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (photo) is equipped with a high-resolution silicon drift detector…
A next-generation system to reduce fire and gas hazards
The new HazardWatch FX-12 fire and gas system (photo) is designed to help process and…
A smaller AODD model is added to this pump product range
The extensive range of Finnish Thompson FTI air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps has recently been…
Ethernet remote I/O modules with conditional logic computing
BusWorks NT series remote I/O modules (photo) are now enhanced with conditional logic. The conditional…
These enclosures now feature more secure gaskets
Instead of traditional neoprene rope gasketing, new Foam-in-Place gaskets have been added to all product…
A compact flowmeter designed for tight equipment areas
The FS10i flowmeter series (photo) is designed to measure the flowrate of natural gas. The…
Magnetic position sensors with IO-Link
This company has extended its offering of compact position sensors with the WIM-IOL series (photo)…
One controller manages multiple feeders
The GUC-F Universal Feeder Controller (photo) allows additional feeding capacity to be installed to meet…
This natural-gas analyzer now has new features
A new version of the J22 tunable diode-laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) gas analyzer (photo) now…
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