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Valve Qualification as Part of the Purchasing Decision

Qualification testing, albeit beneficial, should never be the sole basis for a valve purchasing decision. 

Qualification testing benefits the purchaser and manufacturer but should never be the sole basis for a purchasing decision. It is only part of the information...

Scaling Laws In Process Engineering

Capital cost estimation techniques in the chemical process industries (CPI) largely rely on scaling relationships. Understanding how scaling relationships relate to equipment characteristics enables them to be more effectively used, even when specific data is not available....

AIChE Annual Meeting - 2019 - Shell

Process Development Symposium Europe - 2019 - Process Systems Enterprise, Inc.

Juergen Rarey

Jürgen Rarey is a physical properties and chemical process simulation specialist with a diploma in chemistry and PhD in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany). He held a researcher position at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) since 1989 in the group of Prof. Jürgen Gmehling, co-founded DDBST GmbH (www.ddbst.com) and acted as managing director from 1989 to 2017. Jürgen Rarey conducted his research on predictive models for important physical properties within his honorary professor position (2005-2018)...Read more

Dirk Brohm

Dirk Brohm is the Head of the Catalysis Community at Bayer. Prior to joining Bayer in 2003, he was a Semaia Phamaceuticals.Read more

Armin Fricke on the Process Development Symposium Europe

August 20, 2019
August 21, 2019

Learn what's in store for participants at the very first Process Development Symposium Europe taking place in Frankfurt this September.

Tim Shestek

Tim Shestek is Senior Director, State Affairs for the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the major trade association representing the U.S. chemical and plastics industry. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing and implementing ACC’s lobbying and government affairs efforts in 13 western states; analyzing legislation; advocating policy before legislative bodies and regulatory agencies; developing the industry’s legislative and political grassroots programs; and serving as media spokesperson. He has led ACC advocacy efforts on a number of state legislative and regulatory issues...Read more

Julia Kornfield

Julia A. Kornfield, Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is an expert in polymer science, particularly how polymers influence and are influenced by flow. She has applied small angle neutron and x-ray scattering to diverse systems, including end-associative polymers for aviation safety and security (Wei et al., Science 2015), flow-induced crystallization of polymers (e.g., Science 2007) and the effects of flow on polymer self-assembly (e.g., Science 1997).

Since she joined the Caltech faculty in 1990, Kornfield...Read more

Roger Whitley

Dr. Roger D. Whitley is a Senior Engineering Associate – Research at Air Products. He earned his bachelor’s degree at N. C. State University and his Ph.D. at Purdue University, both in Chemical Engineering. He joined Air Products in 1991, and during his 33-year career, Dr. Whitley has delivered a sustained record of contributions to separation technology. Notable accomplishments include: (1) contributed to the development of new adsorbent compositions and structures. Led teams to scale-up and commercialize new adsorbents, including international collaboration with various universities...Read more

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