by Jan Harmsen | Jun 4, 2024 | News
‘Product and Process Design: Driving Sustainable Innovation’ has been renewed, the second edition is up for sale now (in paperback and digital form) at De Gruyter. Thise second edition contains examples and exercises, so that it can be used as a textbook...
by Jan Harmsen | May 31, 2024 | News
I have been discussing real-world applications of process intensification in the 4th installment of the ‘Sustainability in Action’ webinar series from Elsevier. A key takeaway: “Engineers play a key role in getting the sustainable development goals into...
by Jan Harmsen | May 10, 2024 | News, Publications
My article about Process Intensification has been published in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. You can read the entire article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.koe00067
by Jan Harmsen | Mar 22, 2024 | News
I attended a mini conference called Advanced Flow Chemistry – Basis and Application, organised by Henk van den Berg, of SPIN_NL (Sustainable Process Intensification Netherlands), in Vugt, NL, 5th of March 2024. This mini symposium shows that continuous processing in...
by Jan Harmsen | Feb 27, 2024 | Events & Congresses, News
On March 13, I will be presenting a webinar on Sustainable Innovation in Chemicals: Mastering Process Intensfication. This webinar is the 4th in the series “Sustainability in Action: Real-world Examples for a Greener Future” from Elsevier Engineering. Sustainable...
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...