This month's profile will feature the CEO and owner of Carbon, a 3D printing company based in Silicon Valley. Carbon has recently partnered with adidas to manufacture personalized sneakers on a commercial-scale.

Laboratories working with infectious or pathogenic microorganisms conduct important research that is needed to protect public health and the environment. This is especially true of chemical engineering research that works with biological agents, including vaccine development and translational...

Here, in Part 2 of this series, we consider fluidized beds and slurry reactors with a continuous catalyst make-up and purge rate. From the perspective of an economic evaluation, the make-up catalyst is treated as an ongoing variable cost, rather than an initial investment that pays back over...

Dividing-wall columns (DWCs) improve the energy efficiency and reduce capital cost requirements by approximately 20–30% relative to conventional distillation towers. The unique feature of a DWC is a vertical wall (or walls) within the column that eliminates remixing of components, which is...

Process intensification often requires innovative solutions to make drastic improvements. However, identification of optimal intensification schemes is not always an easy task, even at the conceptual design stage. The traditional paradigm of unit-operation-based process synthesis may not always...

The chemical process industries (CPI) have been built upon two fundamental tenets: economies of scale, and unit operations. Traditional chemical processing takes advantage of economies of scale by building large plants, which make better use of capital and resources. And, the processing steps...