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Water Pinch Analysis

This article shows how a water minimization analysis can be carried out using a standard spreadsheet software.

This Week in Chemical Engineering - Fuels & Petrochemicals Spotlight: October 16, 2018

Don't miss out on the latest business and technology news for chemical engineers, featuring select items in relation to Fuels & Petrochemicals.

2018 SBE User Guide

2018 SBE User Guide

Reverse Osmosis Membranes

Reverse osmosis (RO) is a desalination technique developed in the mid-twentieth century, and first applied commercially in the early 1960s. RO membranes are used with everything from drinking water and boiler feedwater to generating ultrapure water for the pharmaceutical and microelectronics...

Graduate School After Working

A 2009 survey found that only 26% of BS chemical engineers continue on to graduate school, compared to nearly twice as many chemists with bachelor’s degrees. However, even though chemical engineers may not necessarily need advanced degrees to enjoy lucrative employment, it is becoming...

Cell Cultured Meat/Plant Based Meat

Current methods of meat production consume excessive amount of water and produce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Producing cell cultured meat by cultivating progenitor cells is becoming an increasingly viable option for circumventing these issues as cell engineering becomes less...

Tina Arrowood

Tina Arrowood is a Principal Research Scientist at Dow Water and Process Solutions with 20 years of industrial research experience and more than 15 granted patents.  She holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota.



Over the past ten years her primary research focus is to study the fundamental science of fouling in reverse osmosis (RO) systems and to develop fouling-resistant technologies.  In parallel she partners with teams in water stressed regions in Northern China and India to understand the industrial wastewater reuse application...Read more

Fans

There are five operational issues that can give fan system operators nightmares: noise, vibration, capacity, control, and mechanical failure. Often there is overlap since several could be occurring simultaneously. This article describes the five problem areas and demonstrate the connection...

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