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Selecting Sensors for Safety Instrumented Systems
A plant’s safety instrumented system (SIS) is critical in preventing process safety incidents. Use this guide to help choose the proper sensors for your plant’s SIS.
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FLUIDS AND SOLIDS HANDLING
When Mixing Matters: Choose Impellers Based on Process Requirements
The power number is one consideration in impeller selection. Other important factors include bulk flow, turbulence at the impeller, and mixing conditions at the bottom of the vessel and at the liquid surface.
ON THE HORIZON
Synthetic Biology: Putting Together the Pieces
Synthetic biology represents a new way of building biological systems via engineering tools and principles. Genetic components and pathways will be created to reprogram organisms, endowing them with novel functions for a wide range of applications.
CAREER CATALYST
Do Your Due Diligence
Use this guidance to conduct comprehensive due diligence assessments and help ensure your acquisitions — of equipment, technologies, facilities, or companies — are operationally and technologically successful.
GLOBAL OUTLOOK
The Chemicals Industry in South Africa
Built upon the nation’s abundant coal reserves, South Africa’s chemicals industry spent much of the 20th century isolated from world trade. The abolishment of apartheid opened doors to its full participation in global markets.
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- AIChE Journal Highlight: Bridging the Scale Gap to Model Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions
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