by Jan Harmsen | Jan 13, 2023 | News
The field of process concept design with the discipline of chemical engineering is still expanding and new terms appear. Here is a brief description of these novel terms entered into the vocabulary: Process Concept Design Process Concept Design is a systematic...
by Jan Harmsen | Dec 7, 2022 | Events & Congresses, News
Chemical Engineering as applied to Medicine was a one-day forum meeting I attended in Paris, 5th of December 2022. My main conclusion of the 11 presentations from industry and academia is that chemical engineering methods and practices are now researched in many...
by Jan Harmsen | Nov 23, 2022 | News
On 16th of November 2022, I participated in a mini-symposium on affinity separations, organised by NL-GUTS, at the Chemical Engineering Labs of Technical University Delft. The symposium was a combination of lectures and a tour through the chemical engineering...
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...
