http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 8:15:44 EDT At a receptionTuesday evening, Chemical Engineering announced this year’s finalists and the winner of the 2009 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award, a biennial prize that the magazine has bestowed continuously since the early 1930s. The award recognizes the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized anywhere in the world during 2007 or 2008.... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5289.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Carbone Lorraine (CL; Paris, France; Booth 450) recently launched a new welded-plate heat exchanger, dubbed Heatex, which features plates made of tantalum CL-Clad. The patented CL-Clad technology involves the brazing of steel onto “reactive” metals, such as tantalum, titanium and zirconium, in... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5285.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST In the world of chemical processing there are times when standard particle analysis equipment, which provides information about the number of particles and their spherical diameter, just isn’t enough. For these applications, imaging particle analysis goes above and beyond to deliver the speed of... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5286.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Crossflow (CF) filtration is widely used for separating substances with poor filtration properties. As the method’s name implies, a crossflow of the feed continuously flows across the filter membrane in order to wash away material accumulations that clog the membrane pores. Nevertheless, conventional... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5287.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Among the most pressing concerns for the chemical process industries (CPI) are weathering the global economic recession and dealing with anticipated carbon emissions regulations. Switching from oil and gas to biomass for fuel in a CPI plant is a relatively simple way to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5288.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Security at many U.S. chemical facilities is regulated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS; Washington, D.C.; http://www.dhs.gov) under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS). Proposed modifications to this regulation are being debated in the U.S. Congress. In fact, recently, the... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5290.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST For wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors (MBRs) provide superior effluent quality in a small footprint compared to alternative activated-sludge treatment methods. However, MBRs are prone to fouling, and thus may require frequent membrane cleaning with the associated manpower and chemical costs... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5291.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Tantaline (Lyngby, Demnark; http://www.tantaline.com; Booth 645) has developed a process that creates a surface alloy of tantalum on a metal substrate (typically stainless steel). As a result, the surface acquires the corrosion resistance of tantalum — the most corrosion resistant metal commercially... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5292.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Unlike reactors made from glass-lined metals or those made entirely from stainless steel or more exotic metals, such as Monel or tantalum, the transparency of glass reactors “lets users see what’s going on inside the vessel,” says Alan Kramme, vice-president of engineering for Ace Glass... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5248.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Different oxidizer technologies are used on various applications in the chemical process industries (CPI) for the destruction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and odorous emissions. Selecting the proper oxidizer technology is no longer just a function of regulatory... http://www.che.com/chemshow/5249.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST