Vocabulary chemical reaction engineering
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...
Demo plant instead of pilot plant?
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...
Vocabulary Chemical Engineering in Pharma
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...
EFCE Process Intensification Award & EPIC 2023
EFCE Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation and Congress EPIC 2023, (Warsaw) interesting for industry Companies are encouraged to consider applying for the EFCE Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation. This award is presented to an...
Vocabulary Process Design
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...
Chemical Engineering as applied to Medicine
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...
Process Technology Research and Transfer for Pharma, Food, Chemicals, Catalyst, and Fuels
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...
Scale-up of Processes and Products
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...
Learning Points Course Process Scale-up
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...
Book review: Emphatic Entrepreneurial Engineering – The missing Ingredient, David Fernandez Rivas
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 musician, you...
CHISA 2022 Prague – takeway messages
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...
Vocabulary of Process Intensification Field
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...
Ten Rules for Successful Scale-up
Here are the ten rules for successful scale-up of processes to industrial production scale. The rules have been derived from literature on scale-up and validated by industrial scale implementations. The rules are applicable to continuous and batch operated processes...
Affinity Separations
By affinity separation one component is selectively separated from a soup of components. It is very attractive for separations in pharmaceuticals, food, and drinking water industry branches. Latest results from industry partners and academia were presented at the...
How to develop processes faster
Developing a new process typically takes 6 years. It even can take decades. However, it can be faster and still have a successful in start-up. Here are four key elements for a faster and still reliable scale-up. Follow all critical success factors for development and...