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Decode your Digital Future
Understand where your plant can achieve benefits from a digital fieldbus

Squeeze More From Your Process
Process intensification can enhance distillation, heat transfer and other operations

Getting Up to Smart Speed
Use Variable Speed Drives to Save Money, but Gain Even More by Thinking Strategically and Picking Projects Carefully

It Takes Two . . .
Here’s How Three Users Learned the Steps to Prioritizing Process Data to Secure Useful Measures to Improve their Operations

Step Up to Maintenance Excellence
What TPM can do for your plant and how to achieve it.

Innovative Fixes for Saving Energy in Plants
Some uncommon practices can help reduce plant costs

Right Vacuum Control Choice Takes the Pressure Off
Choosing the proper recycle stream for regulation is crucial

Get Pipe Specifications Right in the Beginning!
Good pipe specifications can avoid costly and dangerous mistakes

Chemical Processing Magazine celebrates 70 years
A focus right from the start on “practical usefulness” has led to longevity

Upgraded Cooling System Halves Energy Costs
New layout and speed control also provide other benefits

EPA offers compliance incentives
New owners of regulated facilities benefit from temporary policy changes

Navigating ChemicalProcessing.com
Here’s how to take advantage of what our Web site has to offer

Industry goes for the gold
Olympics showcase some of chemical engineering’s best efforts

Chemical Processing turns 70
A focus right from the start on “practical usefulness” has led to longevity

Fuel cells face material change
Membrane offers cost and performance advantages over platinum

Put CPVC Piping In Its Place
Understand where it fits in terms of cost and performance

Instrument Promises Better Catalysts
You may soon be able to control of the size of nanoclusters with atomic precision

Microfluidics fosters faster air monitoring
Lab on a chip may help monitor air quality

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September Process Puzzler: Fix a Fast Fouling Filter
Readers suggest ways to improve operation and safety. Also included is November's Process Puzzler Question.

Equipment & Services: September
Chemical Processing's Equipment & Services feature provides a variety of production equipment, supplier services and parts.

Domino Theory
Can ISA88 and ISA95 Knock Down the Barriers Between Batch and Continuous Processing?

Caution: High voltage
Revised safety standards build on proven practices.

Condition monitoring under control
Building vibration analysis into the control system boosts efficiency and productivity.