Chemical Engineering August 2014 Issue

Chemical Engineering 08/2014 edition cover Get your free subscription to Chemical Engineering magazine and read latest news on chemical engineering industry and plant operations around the world. In August 2014 Issue, the magazine will take a special look at new horizons for dividing wall columns, demonstration of methane fermentation to lactic acid, A sorbent that enhances the water-gas shift reaction, this chloride leaching process recycles resources and more.

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New Horizons For Dividing Wall Columns
How to significantly expand the application window of DWCs, both as a new design to enhance potential benefits and as an energy saving retrofit option

Advanced Control Methods for Combustion
Advanced control techniques can raise efficiency and lower pollutant emissions in industrial combustion. The capabilities and adoption of several methods are discussed

Dry Separation Methods
Separating bulk solids via air classification, screening or gravity separation is ubiquitous in many industries — an understanding of these processes is crucial to solids-handling engineers

Distillation Column Thermal Optimization: Employing Simulation Software
Applying process simulation software in distillation-column design and operational analysis can lead to significant reductions in operational and maintenance costs and improved column performance

Cooling Towers: Managing Tighter Water-Discharge Regulations
Tightening regulations for cooling tower water-discharge quality are requiring plant engineers to evaluate enhanced treatment options, sometimes including zero-liquid-discharge systems

Software for the Human Element
New software makes plant personnel more effective by providing quality, actionable information

A Safety Checklist For Laboratories
These nine best practices for managing change in laboratories can help ensure a safe workplace

Activated Carbon
This one-page reference describes the manufacturing process for, and applications of, the most commonly used industrial sorbent material, activated carbon…

A two-step process for making graphene
A Korean team has developed a carbon material that is as effective as graphene in applications, such as solar cells and semiconductor chips, using a process that requires only two steps instead of the usual eight.

Cobalt: a less-expensive and more efficient catalyst than rhodium
The research group of Shigeki Matsunaga, associate professor at the University of Tokyo (Japan), in collaboration with Ken Sakata at Hoshi University, has developed a new Co-based catalyst system that outperforms the existing…

A heavy-metal recovery technique that produces no waste streams or sludge
A new remediation approach for industrial heavy-metal waste has been developed by Lewis Environmental Services, Inc. (LES; Pittsburgh, Pa). The patented Enviro-Clean process adsorbs heavy metals from liquid waste streams onto a bed of…

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