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Features - MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL - Validate Your Engineering Software! You really can't guarantee that applications work correctly unless you take specific steps to validate the software./
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Tanzio, Michael
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - ON THE HORIZON - Engineered Fractals Enhance Process Applications - Equipment with fractal characteristics can offer advantages over traditional fluid mixers and distributors. Already, these new devices are finding use in CPI plants./
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Kearney, Mike M
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - ON THE HORIZON - Process Modeling: The Promise of Open Software Architectures - These architectures allow previously incompatible environments to interoperate. And they support life-cycle modeling and collaborative engineering/
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Braunschweig, Bertrand L
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - OPINION - Contracting Must Change! - Plant owners and engineer-constructors must abandon adversarial relationships and, instead, build lasting alliances, if both are to truly prosper long term./
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Jacobs, Joseph J
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - PROCESS CONTROL - Process Engineers: Take Control! - Process control is too important to be left to control engineers. And, dealing with control issues is easier than you might think/
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Smith, Cecil L
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - PROCESS INTEGRATION - Burning Bright: Trends in Process Integration - Process integration has far wider scope and touches every area of process design. Industries are making more money from their raw materials and capital assets while becoming cleaner and more sustainable./
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Hallale, Nick
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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FEATURES - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - A ChE's Guide to Patents - Chemical engineers can help their employers maintain a competitive edge by understanding how the patent system works. This article reviews the basics of patent law and explains some of the more recent developments in this field./
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Haines, M Henry
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Elements of Calculation Style - Style helps readers to understand, and calculations to succeed./
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Anthony, James
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Workaholism - And How I Let It Affect My Life - Are your experiences anything like these? If so, remember that with the proper help, there is hope. Here's how to begin tackling the problem/
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Down, Carl
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATION - Pervaporation Comes of Age - This membrane process has found growing use for dehydrating organics. Uses keep increasing, mostly due to development of new, high-temperature membranes./
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Wynn, Nick
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - Avoid Pitfalls in Evaluating Catalyst Performance Age and life are not suitable parameters to compare catalyst performance. The proper ones are the rate of reaction and the rate of deactivation./
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L�fler, Daniel G
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - Bridge the Gap with Semicontinuous Distillation - Combine the advantages of batch and continuous operations in a single design./
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Phimister, James R
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - Don't Agonize, Optimize! - Your boss and the bean counters demand better plant economic performance. Don't despair. Determining the lowest-cost way to operate a process often is easy, if you use engineering software and common sense/
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Horwitz, Benjamin A
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - Select the Right Spray Nozzle - Finding the proper nozzle for specific applications doesn't have to be difficult. By applying basic concepts of nozzle technology, you can create a droplet profile that best suits your needs./
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Welander, Peter
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - Tray Technology for the New Millennium - By using gas to generate centrifugal forces, several tray designs provide markedly increased capacity. They promise significant benefits for retrofits./
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Bravo, Jos� L
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS - What's Causing Your Catalyst to Decay? - Time or poison can affect performance in a fixed-bed reactor. Knowing which is the key to optimizing process economics/
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Worstell, Jonathan H
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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FEATURES - REACTOR MODELING - Build Robust Reactor Models - Whether scaling up a new reactor or revamping an existing one, use this proven 14-step approach./
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Dutta, Subhash
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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Features - REACTORS - Design Reactors via CFD - For better-designed and more efficient reactors, use computational fluid dynamics to eliminate subjective experience and empiricism./
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Bakker, Andr�
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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Features - RUNAWAY REACTIONS - Consider Bottom Venting for Reactive Liquids - Avoid runaway reactions by selecting the right pressure-relief system. In certain situations, passive bottom-venting can be an improvement over conventional top-venting pressure relief systems./
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Walter, Kenneth L
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2001
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FEATURES - SAFETY - Avoid the Domino Effect via Proper Risk Assessment - Incidents in one unit in a plant have caused catastrophes in nearby ones, killing workers and destroying equipment. Here is how to recognize the potential for a cascading event in your plant./
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Khan, Faisai I
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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2000
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