Viridis Chemical has halted work on an almost-completed plant near Peoria, Illinois, intended to make ethyl acetate, a ...

Dennis Snijders, Director Middle East & North Africa at IGS, examines how total cost of ownership reveals the hidden risks ...

Multicomponent separation of synthetic petrochemical naphtha (hexane, cyclohexane, toluene and xylene) was carried out in a falling film distillation sequence with heat supply using a vapor chamber ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

Pumps, compressors and distillation columns are commonly used in the process industry. Measuring the pressure or head of the system requires a pressure gauge or ...

Column efficiency, influenced by flow rate and particle size, is vital for resolution in LC separations. Efficiency, or "plate number," is a legacy term from distillation columns, now used to describe ...

Extractive distillation is an alternative for ethanol dehydration processes that has been shown to be more effective than azeotropic distillation and, in close proximity, to be very competitive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. There’s a new wrinkle in the saga of Chinese company DeepSeek’s recent announcement of a super-capable R1 model that combines high ...

Weeping and flooding phenomena set the vapor velocity in industrial distillation columns. Presented here are procedures for calculating flooding and weeping velocities in a four-pass sieve-tray column ...