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CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Can a Water Pump Explode?
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
The answer must be yes, or we would not have a Beacon on this subject. The centrifugal pumps in the pictures are all water pumps that exploded. The explosions did not occur because of any contamination or chemical reaction with something that was not supposed to be in the pump. In fact, explosions... -
CEP: Software
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
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CEP: What's New
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Read about new products and services in the areas of fluids and solids handling; materials and chemicals; bioprocessing; instrumentation; environmental health and safety; and laboratory equipment. -
CEP: Engineer a Sustainable Future: AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 3–8, San Francisco
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Sustainability, and the global challenges and opportunities it offers to chemical engineers, will be a uniting theme of discussion for the thousands of chemical engineering practitioners, researchers, and business leaders who will gather at AIChE’s Annual Meeting. -
CEP: Editorial - Are Leaders Born or Made?
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Countless books and articles have been written about leadership — on such topics as the differences between managing and leading, what makes a good leader, and how to become a better leader, among others. One frequent topic: Are leaders born or made? The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) posed this question to C-level executives of companies in 53 countries ( www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/areleadersbornormade.pdf ). Slightly more than half (53.4%) of the top executives think leaders are made, about a fifth (19.1%) think they are born, and a little more than a quarter (28.5%) think leaders are both born and made. -
CEP: AIChE Journal Highlight - Needed: ChEs to Solve Global Challenges
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Chemical engineers and sound engineering principles have been absent from the discussions of global challenges — energy, climate change, food, and water — for too long, assert Bill Banholzer and Mark Jones of Dow Chemical in their August AIChE Journal Perspective article, “Chemical Engineers Must Focus on Practical Solutions.” Society has thus confused what is possible with what is practical, particularly when it comes to energy, where new discoveries are greeted with over-excitement and the hope that each will provide the means to supply reliable, cheap, and almost-limitless energy, the authors say. They cite the hydrogen economy, cellulosic ethanol, and fuel cells as examples of technologies that have promised much but delivered little -
CEP: News Update
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Hot Off the Press: The World’s First 3D-Printed Battery; Nonmetal Compound Catalyzes CO2-to-Methanol Reaction; Iron Catalyst Gives Hydrogenation a Green Makeover; and more -
Use Process Mapping to Improve Quality
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Process mapping integrates science, engineering, and process knowledge with data and statistics to reveal opportunities for process improvement. -
Understand the Basics of Process Analytical Technology
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies can reap benefits from PAT, which involves identifying critical process parameters (CPPs) that influence key product attributes and controlling these CPPs to improve process efficiency and product consiste -
Selecting the Optimal Cooling Tower Fill
CEP Magazine article, August 2013
The most important action of an evaporative cooling tower occurs on the heat-transfer surface — called fill — inside the tower. Follow these guidelines to choose the appropriate fill for your application.