Common Myths About Engineers
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As a regular reader of Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP), I was impressed to see its Editor-in-Chief Cindy Mascone writing her monthly editorial as a poem. She mentioned that when she writes for the magazine "accuracy, clarity, and conciseness take…
Weighing Alternative API Filtration Technologies
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Being a process engineer is all about making choices. When it comes API filtration technologies, many different types of equipment can be used for removing catalyst residues. While conventional filtration equipment is operated manually, I recently worked…
Rethinking Engineering Standards: The Importance of Getting it Right
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Normally, as my readers know, my blogs cover a wide variety of topics. I like to relate and link seemingly unrelated topics to each other in innovative ways. It keeps our critical thinking faculties sharp! However, this blog deviates from the pattern to…
Clear thinking about automated clarification technologies
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This is an edited version of an article I wrote for The Chemical Engineer. I hope you enjoy this take on automated clarification technologies.
Throughout my career in the solid-liquid separation market space, I have seen some…
P&IDs and Process Evolution
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P&IDs are par for the course in process engineering. Recently, I was poring over P&IDs and process planning for several projects. Each project was multinational, multicultural, and extremely complex. For one specialty chemical filtration application, part of…