Follow this guide to keep your combustion and air pollution control equipment running at full capacity.

Troubleshooting is an integral part of keeping any plant in the chemical process industries (CPI) functional. It consists of interfacing and communicating with facility personnel,...

This article will discuss building genetic circuits.

This column will cover:

• what is a genetic circuit?

• why are they necessary for synthetic biology? 

• how do you create or build them?

• what are the challenges associated with creating...

During an ethylene plant turnaround, a 38-year-old tube bundle of a vertical thermosiphon reboiler was replaced with a new, seemingly identical one. After the turnaround, the reboiler was not able to reach the same duty as with the old tube bundle.  The heat duty loss was substantial....

Human fatigue is a peculiar issue in safety and risk management. On the one hand, imagining fatigue as a factor that can lead to incidents seems rational and intuitive. On the other, managing fatigue risks in practice can prove quite challenging. Realistically assessing work-related fatigue and...