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Codes, Tags and Labels—Interpreting Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams [Part...

P&IDs may be viewed as a database of equipment, devices, lines and various sundry items that make up a process plant. Like a properly designed database, the tagging method employed on P&IDs...

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Interpreting Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams [Part 5 of 5]

Learning to read and interpret piping and instrumentation diagrams via dry text-based articles (unlike those produced by yours truly) can be painful. To make this critical topic a bit more engaging, a...

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Nuclear Q&A: Answers on Nuclear Energy’s Future and Plant Design and Safety

In the continuing series, we bring you more answers to questions about Fukushima and nuclear energy, from AIChE's Nuclear Engineering Division (NED). Related posts:Nuclear Engineering Division Takes...

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Water: Industrial Discharge Permits

Environmental management groups are cracking down on industries by imposing tighter discharge limits and making industries everywhere contemplate in-house pretreatment programs—and dilution is no...

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Interviews with Leading Engineers: Q&A with Christianto Wibowo on Energy...

With the rising cost of energy and increased government oversight of greenhouse gas emissions, reducing energy consumption is a key topic for chemical engineers. Christianto Wibowo, principal engineer...

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Interviews with Leading Engineers: Q&A with Eric Maynard

Mixing, blending, and segregation are routinely practiced across a wide spectrum of industries, but how many engineers are relying on hunch and inherited practices instead of hard science? Far too...

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Stella Tonelli habla del valor de la conferencia después de su presentación.

Stella Tonelli investigadora de Planta Piloto de Ingenieria Química,UNS- CONICET, presenta un trabajo en la conferencia  ”Risk Analysis in Biodiesel Plants.” Esta entrevista tuvo lugar en la 3ra...

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Fukushima Update: Masao Yoshida, Heroic Plant Manager, Hospitalized

Masao Yoshida, a career nuclear engineer and the manager during the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, who bravely led the fight to bring the reactors under control, has stepped down after...

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4th AIChE Regional Process Technology Conference

The South Texas Section of the AIChE, in partnership with AIChE HQ, is hosting its 4th Regional Process Technology Conference at the South Shore Harbour Resort and Conference Center, on the shores of...

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Entering a New Golden Age of Chemical Engineering

This post is the first in a series of 12 posts about who ChEs are, what we’re doing, and where we’re going. 2013 AIChE president Phil Westmoreland looks at trends, considers the wide range of chemical...

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Building Tesla’s Model S in a High-Tech Factory

Once, all of Tesla's cars were hand-assembled "alpha builds." Now the Model S is rolling off a high tech production line located in Fremont, California. Related posts:Elon Musk Talks About Energy and...

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Protected: The Second Phase of ChE Education: Gas-To-Liquids at Shell in Qatar

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Related posts:The Second Phase of ChE Education First U.S. Plant to Make Gasoline and Diesel Fuel from Natural Gas Joe Powell of Shell Discusses...

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