by Jan Harmsen | Jan 25, 2024 | News
I am reading Elon Musk’s biography and found an interesting notion about his way of manufacturing space rockets. He puts the innovative engineers, who design the new rockets and the construction and testing employees all in the same building. When a problem appears in...
by Jan Harmsen | Dec 8, 2023 | Events & Congresses, News
A new Process Scale-up course from Harmsen Consultancy will be given March 18-21, 2024. The 4 Day online “Advance Process Scale-Up” course focus is on the introduction and scale-up of new processes and new process equipment, including process intensified equipment,...
by Jan Harmsen | Jun 6, 2023 | Events & Congresses, News
The 8th European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC 2023) was held in Warsaw, Poland 31 May – 2 June 2023. Here are my highlights on industrial PI applications. Manfred Nagel of Evonik presented the role of technology in his specialty chemical company. He...
by Jan Harmsen | May 17, 2023 | News, Vocabulary
Here are some phrases used in chemical reaction engineering: Chemical Reaction Engineering Chemical reaction engineering is the proper bringing to practice of chemical reactions. This definition stems from one of the founding fathers of chemical engineering; Octave...
by Jan Harmsen | Apr 21, 2023 | News
Demo plant instead of pilot plant? The benefits of having a down-scaled integrated pilot plant if the commercial scale process design contains more than 4 new process steps or a recycle stream, or a new solids process step, or a crude solids feed has to be processes...
