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Mechanical Engineering | April 2, 2025 Scaling Smarter: How Advanced Modeling Accelerates... Process scale-up is the effort to take a chemical process that works at a smaller scale and design a version… Read More
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Process Technology | January 28, 2025 Faster Reactor Cooldowns... One of the most frustrating situations to endure is the slow cooldown of a reactor (or series of reactors) when… Read More
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Process Technology | February 22, 2024 Under Pressure... Hydroprocessing Heat Exchanger Fouling due to Di-olefin Polymerization Over the past few months, I have received several questions about heat… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | February 12, 2024 Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling for E... Erosion is a mechanical degradation process in which the material gradually wears off due to continuous impingement of abrasive solid… Read More
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