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 | Aug 21, 2023 | News
A client ordered a course session on distillation scale-up. I thought about this challenge and this triggered my memory on the subject. In the equipment engineering department of my previous employer 4-6 people developed distillation trays and packings for over 50...
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...
by Jan Harmsen | Feb 28, 2023 | News, Vocabulary
Vocabulary Chemical Engineering in Pharma A quiet revolution is occurring in the pharma industry where now chemical engineering methods are introduced in research, design, development, and implementations by many pharmaceutical companies. This quiet revolution is due...
