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What is the Price of Steam? Can that even be determined? Find out in this issue of CEP by reading Robin Smith and Petar Varbanov's article starting on p. 29. This issue also focuses on the latest distillation technologies (p. 10), as well as how to convert a commercial distillation column into a research tower (p. 41). There's much more in this issue of CEP, and be sure to look out for the employment & salary survey results in the August issue of CEP.
July 2005 Vol. 101, No. 7
In This Issue
Heat Transfer
What’s the Price of Steam?
Realistic steam prices are necessary for the efficient operation of a chemical production site, both to allocate realistic costs to the different businesses on the site and to provide a true economic incentive for energy conservation.
Robin Smith - Petar Varbanov
Environmental Management
Designing a Scrubber to Control Emergency Releases
Here are guidelines for determining the scope of the control system, sizing the enclosure, and specifying the scrubber design.
Joseph W. Hower - Jeffrey Michael Forde - Sunil Ojha - Anne McQueen -
Reactions and Separations
Converting a Commercial Distillation Column into a Research Tower
Operating a column under actual distillation conditions is important for obtaining commercially valid hydraulic data. This article describes how a column was modified to operate in either a production or a research mode to collect hydraulic and mass-transfer-efficiency data.
Ralph Weiland - Jeff DeGarmo - Izak Nieuwoudt
Management
Adopt Integrated Product Teams for Process Development
The cross-functional IPT approach can be combined with a stage-gate framework and six sigma techniques to improve the effectiveness of process development efforts.
Jeffrey Mueller - Larry Scotchie - Kelly Seheult