A Focus on Scaling Up
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“Scaling up” may have new meaning this summer if you’ve seen the blockbuster Jurassic World. Those scientists can’t keep their hands off the dino DNA and engineer one big, bad and nasty scaled-up dinosaur.
Yet when we focused on scaling up process in…
Let's Get Rating!
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College Football has its AP Poll, Coaches Poll and the BCS. College Basketball uses the RPI-Rating Percentage Index and Strength of Schedule. Soccer sees teams ranked by FIFA based on their success in their games over a four year period. Plus we…
ACHEMA 2015, Chemical Process Equipment & German Food
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ACHEMA 2015, Chemical Process Equipment & German Food. How are these three related?
ACHEMA is the World Forum for the chemical engineering and process industries. With 170,000 attendees from more than 100 countries and 3,800 exhibitors ACHEMA…
So Many Choices. Where to Begin?
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Selecting the right type of filtration equipment to use in liquid and solid separation is its own kind of sleuthing.
With such a wide range of equipment available, and only several basic principles of solid/liquid separation (pressure, vacuum and…
Elementary, My Dear Process Engineers!
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Back in 2013, I encountered an article on Maria Konnikova's book Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Businessweek had it in their MasterClass section in which they scan the book so we "don't have to." Yet I was intrigued enough to want…