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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash University showed AI can help with rapid identification. The system could eventually sweep the oceans and carry out real-time wastewater analysis.
Type: News
New lithium extraction process could revolutionise energy storage
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process using metal organic framework (MOF) membranes to extract lithium from brines, which is a faster, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly method than conventional processes.
Type: News
The Economic Case for Hydrogen in Domestic Heating
Despite its thermodynamic disadvantages, global energy technology specialist Thomas Brewer believes hydrogen has an economic and efficient role in domestic heating. It forced him to deviate from his usual mantra of ‘efficiency above all else’ to get there, though
Type: Feature
NUS, NTU and ExxonMobil set up Singapore Energy Centre
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have signed a memorandum of understanding with ExxonMobil to set up the Singapore Energy Centre.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 4: Tuning a PID Controller
Myke King provides practical process control advice on how to bolster your processes
Type: Feature
Practical Process Control Part 16: Feedforward Control – Part 2
In the second of a two-parter, Myke King shows how to apply feedforward control
Type: Feature
New MOF membrane cuts energy use for petrochemical industry
AN ENERGY efficient separation method for propylene and propane has been developed using metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes, which could significantly reduce the energy requirements of the petrochemical industry.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 17: Fired Heaters - Part 1
In the first of a two-parter on fired heaters, Myke King shows how to implement duty controls
Type: Feature
Study investigates energy efficiencies to reduce emissions at Ineos Grangemouth
INEOS, co-funded by the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF), will conduct a feasibility study to look at improving energy efficiencies and reducing emissions at its primary manufacturing asset at its Grangemouth site in Scotland – the KG ethylene plant.
Type: News
Engineering Net Zero Part 9: Strategies for Clean Energy
David Simmonds builds on his ENZ series, visualising the UK power system, and explores the unintended consequences of current strategies for 2050
Type: Feature
IN 1976, George Box opined: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” How do we assure that a model is not sufficiently wrong that it is useful? A useful model is one that adequately predicts the results under the conditions and scale required for design or a process simulation. Most models of course are not derived at design scale. We are inevitably working outside the envelope of model derivation. So how do we build confidence that the extrapolation is adequately correct that the results may be trusted?
Type: Feature
Transforming Asset Maintenance
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says Matthew Hurst
Type: Feature
An alternative CO2 capture process
SCIENTISTS at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US have developed a simple, alternative process that could be used to remove CO2 from coal-burning power plant emissions. The process requires 24% less energy than industrial benchmark techniques.
Type: News
High temperature nuclear reactors could make uranium extraction energy neutral
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a report discussing how to make uranium production energy neutral by using high temperature nuclear powered reactors for unconventional uranium extraction.
Type: News
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analysis might be applied to the coronavirus
Type: Feature
Why process industry economics should be taught in undergrad chemical engineering
Type: Feature
Optimising Safety for the Renewable Energy Sector
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Type: Feature
Partners push digitalisation for processes
IMPERIAL College London and China’s Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) are working together to improve intelligent process manufacturing by using digitalisation to modernise and decarbonise industry.
Type: News
The chemical sector and its digital journey
THERE has been a lot of media attention regarding the term Industry 4.0, what it means, and how it will revolutionise manufacturing in terms of flexibility, productivity, efficiency and customer interaction.
Type: Feature
