Process Design and Development
Fast-Tracking Innovation: Accelerated Modular Process Development
The pandemic exposed supply chain vulnerabilities in the pharmaceuticals industry. A new project aims to transform process development for pharmaceutical raw materials by creating a versatile, modular production framework.
Heat Transfer
Resolving Heat Exchanger Fouling in Renewable Fuel Production
As production of renewable fuels increases, refiners will need to overcome operational challenges related to variable feedstock blends — chief among these is heat exchanger fouling.
Fluids and Solids Handling
Designing Agitated Aerobic Bioreactors for Low Shear
Excessive shear rates within a bioreactor can damage the microorganisms within. This article describes the calculations and best practices for reducing shear rates inside these vessels.
Safety
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy — Part II: Pumps
Adding multiple safeguards does not necessarily make a manufacturing operation safer. The Bhopal gas tragedy serves as an example of how the failure of a single pump can defeat multiple mitigative safety layers.
Update
- Extracting Lithium from Brine Just Got Easier
- Human Activities Are Fueling a Troubling Rise in Methane Emissions
- Sequestering Carbon in “Wood Vaults”
- Innovating a New Reaction Path for Polyurethane Recycling
- Converting Greenhouse Gases into Valuable Chemicals with Sunlight
Plus
- Editorial: Keeping Bhopal Relevant for the Next Generation of Engineers
- Catalyzing Commercialization: Gold-Free Catalysts Promise Efficient Vinyl Acetate Production
- AIChE Journal Highlight: Electrolytic Urea Removal for an Artificial Kidney
- Process Safety Beacon:Announcing the Process Safety Community’s Virtual Event
- New Products: Engineering Services; Environmental, Health, and Safety; Fluids and Solids Handling; Instrumentation; Software; Operations and Maintenance; Materials and Chemicals; Laboratory Equipment
- Emerging Voices: What to Do with Captured Carbon
- Spotlight on Safety: Remember the Event, Appreciate the Progress
- Books
- Institute News
- Safety in Ammonia Plants & Related Facilities Symposium Recap
- Ashish Kulkarni is AIChE’s 2024 Langer Prize Fellowship Recipient
- AIChE’s “Inspiring the Power of Good” Gala — Dec. 4., New York City
- Introducing Some of AIChE’s Recently Elected Fellows
- In Memoriam
The November issue of CEP is now available on the AIChE website, on the CEP app, and as a digital flipbook.