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May 2008, Vol. 104, No. 5
In This Issue
NEWS
Plant Security Remains a Moving Target
While chemical companies work toward complying with existing standards, legislators are poised to revise those very rules — with changes ranging from minor tweaking to major overhaul on the table.
Cynthia F. Mascone
REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS
Understanding RO Membrane Performance
Follow these guidelines to prevent fouling, scaling and degradation of reverse osmosis membranes.
Jane Kucera
PERSONNEL SAFETY
Getting Serious About Workplace Hearing Protection
OSHA-mandated hearing conservation programs reduce incidents of noise-induced hearing loss. Here's how to select the appropriate personal protective equipment.
Renee S. Bessette
PROCESS SAFETY
Process Safety: How are you Doing?
Use these metrics to benchmark your company's process safety performance, and to set a course toward continual improvement.
Tim Overton and Scott Berger
HEAT TRANSFER
Evaluating Cooling Tower Upgrades
When considering improvements to cooling towers, it's important to perform an economic analysis of the options.
Tom Dendy
SBE SPECIAL SECTION: BIOPROCESSING
SBE Update: Moving Bioprocesses to Market
June Wispelwey
SBE.DTU Sets an Example for Student Chapters
SBE Explores the Scale-Up of Stem Cell Technology
Kartik Subramanian
Speeding the Design of Bioprocesses
These experimental and modeling techniques enable the rapid, cost-effective design and scale-up of biopharmaceutical manufacturing in an integrated fashion.
Andrew D. Tustian and Sunil Chhatre
Purifying Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies
Eliminating the affinity chromatography step in the mAb purification process trims equipment requirements, shrinks the plant footprint — and reduces costs.
Amit Mehta, Martha Lovato Tse, Jace Fogle, Amy Len, Roshan Shrestha, Nuno Fontes, Benedicte Lebreton, Bradley Wolk and Robert van Reis