Cruising Into a Future with LNG

Photo by Alonso Reyes on Unsplash In mid-April, I attended GasTech 2017 in Tokyo. The focus of GasTech was Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and its impact on the world’s energy balance, carbon emissions, and technology. Now, I didn’t take a cruise ship all of the way from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Japan, but there are some interesting overlaps between LNG and cruising. Why Liquefied Natural Gas First, we need to understand LNG and its growing market share. LNG is an odorless, colorless and…


A Focus on Scaling Up

  Photo by Fausto García-Menéndez on Unsplash “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 our latest BHS e-newsletter, A&SoF, we were talking about process scale-up for specialty chemicals and bioenergy. Our own “Process Scale-Up from Demonstration Batch Filtration to Commercial…