Equipment

This issue, a look at minimizing oil and gas flaring, tips for re-suspending settled solids in an agitated tank, risk-based methodologies for better asset integrity management, and more.

This issue, a look at mega columns and their role in meeting carbon-neutral goals, considerations for keeping your facility safe from hackers, industry and Institute news, and more.

In this issue, learn how to prevent polymer buildup at an ethylene plant, take a look at avoiding incidents with toxic inhalation hazard chemicals, harness AI in the plant, and much more.

This issue, a special section devoted to plastics recycling, plus tips for strong packed tower performance, reboiler optimization, and much more.

This month, hazardous materials use and storage and how they relate to building codes, tips for safe pump operation, a look at process control issues during engineering design, and more.

This month, tips for quick assessment of distillation columns, a look at teaching process control topics, advice on patenting your work, and more.

This issue: opportunities to control plastic waste, a look at design and operation considerations for distillation experiments, and much more.

In this issue, troubleshooting combustion and air pollution control equipment, a heat exchanger primer, tips for career growth, and more.

Think low pressure means low risk? Think again! Looking for ways to reduce distillation column energy requirements? We've got smart tips. These topics and much more in the December 2019 issue.

This month in CEP, tips for getting your research published, advice for strong video presentations, a look at reducing plant energy costs, and much more.

Have good advice to share? Want to see what other chemical engineers and chemical engineering students are up to? Check out the latest discussions.

Determine the best catalyst replacement interval for fixed-bed reactors, boost fan performance and efficiency, meet the Caltech 6, and much more.

This month, results of the biennial salary survey of chemical engineers, ways to improve spreadsheet productivity, cybersecurity tips, and more.

This month, CEP looks at compressors for ethylene plants, data science for chemical engineers, risk-based calibration, and much more.

One of the very latest screencasts from LearnChemE discusses the PID family of controllers, what they do, and how they work. The tutorial covers P-only, I-only, PI, D-only and PID.

When Ryan Lance, CEO of ConocoPhillips, told an OPEC conference in 2012 that the cartel was complacently under-estimating the global impact of US shale drillers, the audience, flush with $100 a bar

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This fall we're featuring some of our top posts of all time. This great Excel series, which starts with the post below, is a perennial favorite. Check it out If you've not yet had the pleasure.

Need help with lead-lag systems? This tutorial introduces lead lag systems, with a particular focus on first-order systems.

This video tutorial introduces simple steam tables, the differences between different types of steam tables, and how to use them.

If you can't tell the symbol for a packed bed reactor from a plug flow reactor, brush up on reactor symbols here.

From our archives comes a popular Excel tutorial for chemical engineers, developed by ChE Todd Krueger. Check it out for more on pivot tables, macros, indirect references, and more.

Excel got you down? Get up to speed with a ton of tutorials on chemical engineering computing using Excel and Matlab.

Confused by Reynolds Transport Theorem? This short video should help clear up many of your questions.

Anyone can spot energy trends since the US Energy Information Administration has unveiled a new mapping tool that shows the locations of US oil and gas wells.

Imagine you want to make beer, and not just any beer, but great beer. Learn more about how this and other processes can be optimized using hybrid modeling.

Confused by pressure-enthalpy diagrams, or just looking for a refresher? Check out this tutorial.

A novel solar reactor design has been developed at the University of Florida. Preliminary tests using a pilot-scale system capable of taking in 10kW solar energy and using it to drive the splitting of water have been successful.

UCLA announced that the lab of one of its researchers, Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, has developed a handheld smartphone attachment that enables a smartphone to detect a single virus.

Confused by how to read humidity, or psychrometric, charts? Check out this tutorial.

“Overcoming Future Challenges through Engineering Excellence” will be the theme of the 2nd Middle East Process Engineering Conference (MEPEC 2013), Sept. 29–Oct. 2, 2013 at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre.

Good problem-solver? Huey Duck, your client, has inherited an oil tanker from his great uncle, Scrooge McDuck. Can you help Huey understand the market value of his inheritance?

The best time to work on self-improvement is during the summer, and one of the most useful areas for chemical engineers to focus on is programming.

Watch as George Laguros, Geophysicist for the Marathon Oil Corporation in Houston, Texas, talks about analyzing seismic data in the present and reminisces about the days of analysis with a pencil, slide rule, and graph paper.

Losing ground to competitors, a major brewery takes a look at alternative products. Can bottled water be a viable solution? Check out the case study and submit your thoughts, ideas, and recommendations.

Need a quick tutorial or help reviewing chemical engineering concepts? If so, this massive library of chemical video tutorials will make your day—and might even raise your grades.

Ready for some real-world problem-solving? This case study introduces a real engineering scenario in which a company needs help increasing production in the Pacific. Are you up for the challenge?

British Petroleum is spending $100 million to replace its current data center with what it says will be the largest supercomputer for commercial research in the world. The company hopes the added computing power will bring with it a significant competitive advantage in the race for the globe's newly discovered sources of gas and oil.

In this week’s post about the new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about “Massively parallel computing and massive impacts for ChE.”

The first edition of Positive Displacement Pumps: A Guide to Performance Evaluation was published in 2007 by AIChE's Equipment Testing Procedures Committee (ETPC). The ETPC’s goal is to release or update at least one testing procedure each year.

During the poster session at the Spring Meeting and 8th Global Congress on Process Safety, we spoke with Anjana Meel, research and development engineer at Safer Systems, to discuss her research on spills. The research compares shrinking vs. non-shrinking spills to help process safety engineers deal with spills quickly and efficiently.

The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) just released a tsunami of useful data – but one tool can help wade through some of it. NREL's new interactive geospatial app allows anyone to easily and accurately map potential renewable energy resources throughout the United States directly from a Web browser.

IBM announced plans to give the National Institutes of Health a database of more than 2.4 million chemical compounds. NIH will add this information to PubChem, a freely available database of chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.

Forward osmosis offsets some of the high costs of reverse osmosis, but large-scale systems necessarily introduce one or more additional unit ops to recover the extracted water from the draw solution utilized. Young Kim of the Korea Institue of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) discussed her work on a forward osmosis pilot plant.

Dr. Subhas Sikdar, director of the Sustainable Technology Division at the National Risk Management Research Lab, shared insights and advice on quantifying sustainability metrics.

The volume and complexity of produced water (PW) generated in the oil and gas extraction industry provides a significant separations and treatment challenge. Because of its source, PW is contaminated with hydrocarbons and inorganic leachates from the rock strata where the well is drilled. Bruce Bishop of Veolia Water presented the results of ceramic membrane systems trials in different process environments.

Katie Guerra, P.E., of the Bureau of Reclamation reported on her efforts to put to the test the common assumptions that ceramic micro- and ultrafiltration systems, though more robust and forgiving, have such a high capital cost that polymeric membrane systems provide a lower total operating cost advantage.