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Chemical Processing Distilled

The Chemical Processing Distilled podcast extracts essential elements to serve engineers designing and operating plants in the chemical industry.

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Process Safety with Trish & Traci

Sharing insight from recent process-safety incidents to avoid accidents at chemical processing plants.

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Podcast: Radar Level Measurement: Challenges, Benefits and Innovations
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This episode discusses radar device applications, cost-effectiveness, and KROHNE's pioneering technology advancements.
Sept. 12, 2025
Podcast: How Equipment Reliability Impacts Process Safety
Equipment reliability failures at Longford, BP and Buncefield highlight process safety lessons, maintenance KPIs and industry risks.
Sept. 9, 2025
Chemical Setbacks, Breakthroughs Reshape Industrial Landscape
In August 2025 news, Eastman appeals funding cuts while UN plastics negotiations stall.
Aug. 29, 2025
Podcast: Challenge the Illusion of Safety
Chemical facilities miss critical safety insights by investigating the wrong incidents with the wrong questions. Learn from research that analyzed over 10,000 incidents across...
Aug. 12, 2025
ExxonMobil, Honeywell Discuss 50 Years of Distributed Control System Evolution
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From centralized cabinets to AI-enhanced, virtualized field-level automation, the keys to the future will be efficiently managing data and using it in various applications.
Aug. 1, 2025
EPA Shakeups, Ethane Carrier Christened and Dow Shutters Three Plants
This week's episode includes exclusive, unpublished content related to Trump administration's R&D cuts within the EPA and their potential effects on environmental research priorities...
July 28, 2025
Permit to Work Failures Prove Deadly
Permit-to-work failures killed 167 men on Piper Alpha. Learn critical safety lessons to prevent future disasters.
July 22, 2025
CSB’s Bleak Future, Eastman Expands Recycling, DOE Develops Photosynthesis-Inspired Catalyst
Recent chemical industry developments show mixed progress on safety and sustainability.
June 27, 2025
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Podcast: Lessons Learned from the Challenger Disaster
NASA normalized foam strikes over time, turning "lessons of failure into memories of success."
June 24, 2025
Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day
From the days of Cleopatra to contemporary chemical engineers, we look at the women who transformed modern life through innovations touching nearly every aspect of human existence...
June 23, 2025
Turn Training Hopes Into Measurable Success
Companies hope training works without measuring its effectiveness. Without proper evaluation, organizations cannot know if their training achieves its intended outcomes.
June 20, 2025
May Wrap-Up: Trump Cuts, EPA Restructures, ExxonMobil Expands
Trump's budget cuts and EPA changes reshape the chemical industry amid expansion. How Trump’s 2026 Proposed Budget Cuts Could Impact the Chemical Industry
June 6, 2025
Process Safety: AI and Machine Learning Transform Compliance, But Humans Still Key
Risk assessment should still be a manual process, but AI can streamline data collection to enable sound engineering judgments.
May 27, 2025
Operator Training Inefficiency Costs Millions
Optimizing operator training time saves money through feedback and assessment.
May 23, 2025
9 reliability and maintenance best practices
Chemical plant maintenance best practices include predictive maintenance, safety and continuous improvement – plus six others.
May 16, 2025
Callide Power Station: 34 Minutes to Disaster
Switching operation triggers catastrophic power station explosion, proving that process safety principles apply beyond traditional chemical plants to any high-hazard environment...
May 13, 2025
Environmental Policy Shifts Reshape Chemical Industry Landscape
Trump's EPA eases regulations while confusion stalls recycling innovation and Dow delays climate investments.
May 2, 2025
Podcast: Helping Process Manufacturers Enhance Sustainability Efforts – Bonus Episode
Listen in on a recent episode of Ear on Processing, from Chemical Processing's sister publication Processing.
April 23, 2025
The Missing Step in Operator Training? Practice
Effective operator training requires realistic practice scenarios with feedback loops, not just explanation and demonstration.
April 18, 2025
Deadly Lessons from BP Disasters
Remembering the human toll of Texas City and Deepwater Horizon and applying those lessons learned can prevent similar tragedies.
April 15, 2025
EPA & ACC Battle, CSB’s Lessons from Deadly Incidents, BASF’s New CEO
Executive Editor Jonathan Katz breaks down the important news that happened in March 2025.
April 4, 2025
Podcast -- Learning Objectives: Measurable Skills, Not Vague Knowledge
Unlike unclear goals like "understand distillation," effective objectives specify demonstrable skills.
March 21, 2025
The Four Cs of Effective Process Safety Storytelling
Embrace new ways of safety communication because if we keep doing the same thing, we will keep getting the same results.
March 11, 2025
Train Disaster Visit, No IRIS Act, Century-Old Refinery Shuttered
Executive Editor Jon Katz covers the top news from February 2025.
Feb. 28, 2025