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Metabolic Engineering Conference - 2020 - Synplogen Co. Ltd

Synplogen Co. Ltd

January Meeting

January 6, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 5:30pm CST
Speaker: Dr. Thomas E. Rehm Topic: A Path Forward on Solving Climate Change Cost: None. Purchase own food/drink. Reservations: Make your reservation by 5:30 PM on Wednesday, January 15th to Armand Melikyan . Reservations are not required. Bring a friend. PDH: One hour.Read more

January 2020

January 6, 2020

How to Navigate your ChE Career

We are proud to announce a new track of programming in the Leadership Development topical conference at the Spring Meeting.

The Competency Conundrum

People with the greatest amount of confidence in their abilities are typically the worst performers. In psychology, this finding is called the “Dunning-Kruger Effect.”...

Hot Vapor Bypass Systems

Pressure control is the most important parameter that is used in distillation optimization. Engineers realize that there are three important parameters in distillation optimization: temperature, pressure, and composition. When two of these are controlled, the other parameter is fixed. When...

Visual Cues into Ethylene Service Fouling

Fouling is an ongoing issue in an ethylene plant. During an outage, dirty equipment may be taken out of service for cleaning as needed and deposit samples taken for chemical identification. Often, the chemical identity is already suspected; poly butadiene in the top of the debutanizer or...

Troubleshooting Process Control Problems

The theoretically attainable performance of a petrochemical plant is closely aligned with the technology applied and the equipment installed during the design and construction of the plant.  Achieving that potential performance is dependent upon proper operation of that equipment, which...

People -- Not Programs -- Improve Safety

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