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In this section, Dr. Joel Shertok addresses a variety of chemical engineering-related topics, including process design and scale-up issues, news topics impacting chemical engineering practices, process safety, and emerging technology trends.
The Race to Repurpose Nature’s Protein Factories
The molecular machines that cells use to build proteins are backed by a billion years of evolution. In that time, these machines—ribosomes—have become exceptionally good
Public Money is set to Stimulate Supply of Sustainable Hydrogen
The production of carbon-neutral hydrogen, dubbed green hydrogen, and of low-carbon hydrogen, dubbed blue hydrogen, is set to increase around the world in 2021. “There’s
3-D Printing Complex Objects in a Flash
Taking advantage of molecules that switch states when exposed to particular wavelengths of light, researchers have developed a 3-D printing method that can make precise
2021 Startup Predictions: Trends, Sectors, And Tech That Will Emerge
There aren’t many positives to take out of 2020, but the extraordinary progress made in digital transformation is one silver lining. Rapidly maturing software technologies
Brexit: This Is How The Final Agreement Between The United Kingdom And The European Union Remained At The Last Minute
Brexit: This Is How The Final Agreement Between The United Kingdom And The European Union Remained At The Last Minute After months of negotiations and
DeepMind solves 50-year-old Challenge in Predicting Protein Folding
This week, the artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaFold, developed by Google’s DeepMind, has solved a decades-old problem in biology: determining a protein’s 3D structure based
THE ART OF SCALE-UP — THE SUCCESSFUL CHEMICAL PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO CREATING A PROFITABLE PROCESS
Dr. Joel Shertok addresses chemical engineering concerns in an industrial environment, emphasizing the importance of piloting a reduced scale process to mimic proposed commercial operations. Topics include reactor considerations, separations, and materials of construction (MOC). Subtopics include descriptions, illustrations, and examples of reaction kinetics, mass transfer, mixing, kinetic control, distillation, crystallization and fractional crystallization, separation methods, ion exchange, filtration, selection criteria for materials of construction, energy sources and uses.
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