by Jan Harmsen | Oct 24, 2022 | News
Process scale-up is about developing new processes for existing products. This scale-up is applied in bulk chemicals and other industry branches with large capacity processes. Product scale-up is about developing new products to be produced in existing processes. This...
by Jan Harmsen | Sep 23, 2022 | News
I lead a course on Process Scale-up last May. I always learn new aspects while giving this course, I will share with you 4 learning points I took away from this course: This time I learned from the course participants that a company who lacked process concept design...
by Jan Harmsen | Sep 8, 2022 | Book review, News
Book impression by Jan Harmsen, Emphatic Entrepreneurial Engineering – The missing Ingredient, David Fernandez Rivas, DE GRUYTER, Berlin 2022. The writing style of David Rivas in this book is like a jazz musician playing Bach music. If you are a classic...
by Jan Harmsen | Aug 31, 2022 | News
Co-operation between industrial engineers, researchers, and government is needed to fulfil world-wide Sustainable Development Goals, was the main take-away message from the CHISA conference, Prague, 22-25 August 2022. Professor David Rivas gave a plenary lecture...
by Jan Harmsen | Dec 21, 2021 | News, Vocabulary
I review papers on the subject of Process Intensification (PI). Often the researchers struggle with the proper use of terms. I also give a course on PI for industrial chemical engineering practitioners. In some cases, participants struggle with the meaning of terms...
