September 2024 CEP Preview

Safety

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy — Part I: Process Safety Culture

The Bhopal gas tragedy stands as a stark reminder of the critical importance of process safety management. Forty years after the disaster, this article emphasizes the significance of the event and what it reveals about the prevailing process safety culture.

Environmental Management

Lifecycle Thinking for Next-Generation Chemical Engineering

The thinking underpinning lifecycle assessment has proven to be flexible and adaptable enough to guide analyses of emerging technologies, social impacts, and carbon emissions accounting approaches.

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Critical Issues

Lost in Translation: Acknowledging Language Limitations in Process Safety

Process safety relies on effective communication between team members. With an increasing number of English language learners in the workforce, engineers and operators need to be aware of the potential challenges posed by miscommunication.

Reactions and Separations

Heat Integration by Side Reboiling

Optimizing heat integration within a process scheme can yield significant energy savings, especially when an energy-intensive operation like distillation is involved. This article illustrates a simple graphical method for optimizing the heat integration of distillation columns using side reboilers.

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  • Exploring Hydrogen for Short-Range Flight
  • Sequestering NOx in Concrete Could Net Economic Benefits
  • A 3D-Printed “Forest” to Desalinate Seawater
  • Building Flavor into Cultivated Meat
  • Shocking the Soil to Instantly Degrade PFAS

Plus

  • Editorial: Breaking Down Language Barriers for Process Safety
  • Catalyzing Commercialization: Novel Aerogel-Based Insulation May Transform Building Efficiency
  • AIChE Journal Highlight: Reviewing Recent Advances in Biobased Materials and Value-Added Chemicals
  • Process Safety Beacon: Are You Prepared?
  • New Products: Instrumentation; Operations and Maintenance; Fluids and Solids Handling; Heat Transfer
  • Emerging Voices: Is Nuclear Energy the Future of Batteries?
  • Advanced Manufacturing Progress: Thermodynamic Modeling and Physical Properties for Technology Scale Up
  • Books
  • Meeting Sneak Peek: Chemical Engineering Reimagined: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, Oct. 27–31    
  • Institute News 
    • Chemical Engineers “Stepping Up” to Lead the Energy Transition
    • AIChE Election Ballots Due Sept. 30
    • Wittrup Will Present Bailey Lecture
    • Langer to Deliver RE Society’s Award Lecture
    • AIChE Partners with the University of Houston on Hydrogen Economy Training

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