A sugar mill in Port Wentworth, GA, had been operating for almost 100 years, but poor housekeeping procedures allowed sugar to accumulate around equipment and on structures. Periodic fires were reported at the site, but corrective actions were not...
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2020
Fluids and Solids Handling Accurately Fill Bulk Bags Without Creating Dust The Model BBF loader features an inflatable fill head that ensures a dust-free seal when loading, as well as a dust port with dust cartridge. Manually adjustable bag supports...
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2019 AIChE Annual Meeting • Orlando, FL • Nov. 10–15 Nearly 6,000 chemical engineering professionals from 57 countries convened at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 10–15, in Orlando, FL — where they surveyed the breadth of chemical engineering...
January
2020
Earlier this month, I was invited to attend the AIChE Foundation’s Rising Star Workshop held at the global headquarters of Pfizer, Inc. in New York, NY. Although the workshop had several goals, its main purpose was to empower and inspire women...
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2020
Evaporation and distillation are energy-intensive thermal separations that drive industrial manufacturing. In fact, these thermal separation and purification technologies consume 12% of all energy produced in the U.S. In a typical chemical process,...
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AIChE Meetings For information and registration details, visit www.aiche.org/conferences or call Customer Service at 1-800-242-4363 or 1-203-702-7660 (outside the U.S.). Jan. 7–9, 2020 • ICBE Asia: 10th International Conference on Biomolecular...
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2020
Chemical Reactor Design: Mathematical Modeling and Applications Juan A. Conesa, Wiley-VCH, Hoboken, NJ, $152.99, 352 pages, Oct. 2019, ISBN: 978-3-527-82338-3 This book provides up-to-date insights into important developments in the field of...
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2020
Planet Earth is facing challenges with respect to energy, water, food, and the environment, and significant improvements in efficiencies of new and existing processes are needed to meet these challenges. Process intensification (PI) has been...
Chason J. Coelho, PhD, CSP, CFI, is a human factors, technical safety, and risk management professional with experience in aerospace, on- and off-shore petrochemical, marine, crane, manufacturing, and utility industries. He is a managing scientist in Exponent’s Human Factors practice. A cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on human motor control, he applies unique interdisciplinary expertise in cognitive and physical behavior to issues such as human error prevention, decision-making, human reliability, safety in design, human-machine interfacing, and ergonomics. He addresses...Read more
Claes Hedvall is a chief engineer for Borealis olefins plants. He has more than 30 years of experience in operation, startup, design, and troubleshooting. He obtained his MSc in chemical engineering from Chalmers Univ. of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.Read more
