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Centrifugal Pumps

Optimizing Centrifugal Pumps: A Blueprint for Chemical Processing Success

Mastering selection, operation and troubleshooting to enhance plant efficiency and reduce downtime.
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Dirty Oil

Plant InSites: The Importance of Hot-Oil System Cleaning

One plant’s struggle with an evaporator system could have been avoided with proper maintenance.
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Heat Exchanger

Boiler and Heat Exchanger Failures: The True Cost of Poor Water Treatment

Industrial plants risk millions in repairs and lost production by skimping on water chemistry control.
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two-step system

Tandem Electrochemical Process Transforms CO2 into Acetate and Ethylene

Two-step electrochemical process uses a kW scale electrolyzer to convert carbon dioxide into high-quality multi-carbon products.

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How Nuclear Fuel Behaves

Researchers Discover How Super-Hot Nuclear Fuel Behaves

Sept. 6, 2024
Experiments at Argonne National Laboratory provide insight into the fundamental behavior of actinide oxides at extreme temperatures.
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Different stages of a chemical reaction with the samarium diiodide reagent.

Method Improves Nitrogen Fixation Processes, Drug Discoveries

Aug. 23, 2024
Researchers unlocked the samarium–oxygen bond that forms during the reactions and renders the chemical inactive.
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Partnership Aims To Develop Novel Electrocatalysts For Green Hydrogen

Aug. 22, 2022
Sibanye-Stillwater and Heraeus enter into a partnership to develop and commercialize novel electrolyzer catalysts for the production of green hydrogen.
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Rice Engineers Enhance Catalyst That Breaks Down “Forever Chemicals”

Aug. 2, 2022
Chemical engineers fine-tune design of PFOA-destroying nanoparticles.

White Papers: In Depth Research

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eHandbook: Scale Up Your Solids Solutions

July 27, 2023
Small changes in particle shape, composition, moisture or other parameters can have a big and sometimes surprising impact.
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eHandbook: Foil Fluid Flow Frustrations

Dec. 9, 2022
To help you foil fluid flow frustrations, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook.
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Bulk Solids Innovation Center Journal: Understand When To Use A Closed-Loop Conveying System

Oct. 26, 2022
Chemical Processing in collaboration with the Bulk Solids Innovation Center has developed this Journal to help you better understand bulk solids processing and solve your challenges...
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eHandbook: Vanquish Flow Vexations

Oct. 6, 2022
Moving raw materials into a process, getting them to pass through specific steps within an operation, transporting intermediate products between steps, and finally sending finished...
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Procurement Equipment

Spring Equipment Buying Tips for Chemical Plant Operators (Part 1 of 2)

May 9, 2024
It’s a season of renewal, and for many process operations that means upgrading equipment.
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Benefits, Drawbacks of Single-Use Technologies In Biopharmaceuticals

May 7, 2024
Significant advantages in flexibility, cost-effectiveness and efficiency are attractive to the bioprocessing sector, but there are downsides.

Swarf Advances Green Hydrogen Production

April 26, 2024
Researchers turn metal waste into catalyst for hydrogen.

Corrosion Curbs Renewable Energy Production

April 12, 2024
Duke University researchers say it could one day be possible to design renewable energy devices that last two to three times longer than they currently do.