August 2024 CEP Preview

Special Section: AI and Digitalization

  • The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
  • A Chemical Engineer’s Introduction to ChatGPT
    • As OpenAI’s ChatGPT gains popularity across different professions, chemical engineers have questions about if (and how) the tool works in practice.
  • Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Process Safety Studies 
    • AI can enhance risk assessments — starting with process hazard analysis (PHA) revalidation and expanding to other studies — provided that proper digitalization initiatives are in place. 
  • The Industrial Metaverse for the Process Industries
    • The industrial metaverse digitally mirrors the process units and equipment in an industrial facility. Digital twins — the best-known application of the industrial metaverse — are already transforming how engineers design and interact with processes. 

Energy

Powering the Transition to Net Zero with Electric Cracking Technology

This article provides an update on a technology demonstration of an electric cracking furnace and considers future integration options into petrochemical sites. 

Safety

Employing Virtual Tours to Speed Up Plant Turnarounds

Drones and 360-degree cameras have made it relatively easy to create virtual plant tours. For one ammonia production site in particular, virtual tours ensured a safe and cost-effective turnaround.  

Update

  • New Method of Gene Editing Allows Complex Changes in a Single Step
  • Biochar Breakthrough Could Yield Cheap Hydrogen Production
  • Scientists Investigate Wastewater-Based Fertilizers

Plus

  • Editorial: AI and Machine Learning: Proceed with Caution
  • Catalyzing Commercialization: CdTe-Perovskite Tandem Photovoltaics Achieve Record Efficiency
  • AIChE Journal Highlight: Enabling Flexible Biomass Supply Chains with Mobile Modules
  • Process Safety Beacon: Corrosion — Another Hidden Threat 
  • New Products: Bioprocessing; Fluids and Solids Handling; Heat Transfer; Instrumentation; Materials and Chemicals; Environmental, Health, and Safety
  • Profile: To Boldly Go Where Few ChemEs Have Gone Before
  • Career Connection:How to Determine and Advocate for the Compensation You Deserve
  • Institute News 
    • Alper to Deliver 2024 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Lecture
    • Registration Opens for 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting and Co-located Conferences
    • Robert A. Brown Named as AIChE’s Schowalter Lecturer for 2024
    • Center for Hydrogen Safety Opens Nominations for Zalosh Safety Awards
    • Virtual Career Fair Will Connect Chemical Engineers and Employers, Sept. 10

The August issue of CEP is now available on the AIChE website, on the CEP app, and as a digital flipbook.