Cyberattacks can infiltrate and disrupt industrial processes, causing operational disturbances, equipment damage, and even injury to employees. Incorporating cybersecurity into process hazard analyses can help you identify the vulnerabilities in your facility.
June
2019
The results of AIChE’s biennial salary survey are in, revealing positive advances for the chemical engineering profession. The median annual salary of respondents to the 2019 survey is $126,000 — a 1.6% increase over the 2017 median of $124,000.
June
2019
Chemical engineers continue to earn more than the average U.S. worker. The median salary of survey respondents is $126,000 — 1.6% higher than the median reported in 2017.
June
2019
A wave of change is spreading across many industries due to technological advances enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. The pharmaceutical industry is no exception and is harnessing AI tools for new drug discovery and development...
June
2019
Operators at a plant detected a pinhole leak in an 8-in.-diameter insulated steel line containing noncorrosive cracked gas (~40% ethylene). The line was 30 years old and was in a regeneration service, which cycled between three different temperature...
June
2019
In one of its rare forays into patent law, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined one type of prior art ( i.e., the pre-existing disclosures or commercial activities that can invalidate a patent), narrowing the opportunities for inventors who engage in...
June
2019
Operations and Maintenance Remote Data Logger Connects to the Cloud The Digi-Sense multiparameter data logger allows operations maintenance personnel to remotely monitor temperature, humidity, CO 2 , or barometric pressure levels of a laboratory,...
June
2019
Take It or Leave It Re: “Resolve to Better the Planet,” Editorial by Elizabeth Pavone, April 2018, p. 3: I liked the article — nice job. I learned a lot from it. We should all better the planet. My cousins live on Nantucket. Being on an island,...
June
2019
AIChE Announces Langer Prizes for Innovators and Entrepreneurs Applications for 2019 Fellowship Due August 1 ▲ Robert Langer The American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the AIChE Foundation have established a new fellowship program that will...
June
2019
Again?!? That was the reaction of some of the editors when I said I was writing this editorial about nature. CEP readers may know that I love being outside in nature (because I have written on this theme before). This time, my motivation is a press...
