Wish You Enough: Looking Ahead to 2022
Do you know The Fabulous Thunderbirds? They describe themselves as “a quintessential American band.” They have been performing their “distinctive and powerful sound” since 1974. One of my favorite songs is “Tuff Enuff.” The “enough” theme is the focus of my blog looking back at 2021 and looking ahead to 2022. The word “enough” has many different meanings in the English language. It generally means “equal to what is needed” or, in more detail, “occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as…
Circular Economy and Sustainable Travel to St Kitts
I have been recently writing again about the circular economy. My readers may remember by blog about the Beer Industry and Sustainable Water with a Cherry Stout. Well, as much as I like a cold beer, I also like to practice yoga and run on the beach. With this in mind, let’s look at how one Caribbean nation is changing to renewable energy. First, some background. St Kitts and Nevis is a tropical two-island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Both of the mountainous islands were formed by…
Circular Economy and Closing the Loop in Case Studies
Source: https://www.the-future-of-commerce.com/2020/01/23/closed-loop-production/ Recently I blogged about how to address Circular Economy considerations in engineering and applied science settings and how companies too can learn to adapt. It is fast becoming a necessity as industry recognizes the criticality of a holistic approach to sustainability. For example, the UK last year announced £22.5m in government funding for five new R&D centers focusing on the circular economy and…
Teaching & Learning in the Circular Economy
Since the industrial revolution there have been waves of technology and innovation. We all remember the movie “The Graduate” and that technology wave told to Dustin Hoffman in one word: PLASTICS. The next wave came along in the chemical/petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. It also brought along the US Environmental Protection Agency, where, as many of you know, my career began. Now, we all see the next wave coming with the Circular Economy. What does this mean? The three…
Ebook Explores Automated Filtration Technologies for Clarification Applications
Over my almost 40 years in the process industry, many people have helped me along the way. Having opened my own consulting business, Perlmutter & Idea Development, I thought it time to give back to the engineering and process communities. Earlier this year I taught a short course in the American Filtration Separations Society Learning Center, “Automatic Filtration Technologies.” This month, I have released a related e-book, Framework for Selecting Automated Solid-Liquid Filtration…