New 4 day online course: Process Scale-up
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,...
Interesting contact and information from ECCE 2023
Chemical Engineering for pharmaceutical process design and scale-up I attended the European (Bio)Chemical Engineering Congress (ECCE14, ECAB7) in Berlin 17-21 September 2023 and selected for the parallel sessions the topic ‘Chemical engineering for medicine’. This...
Distillation Scale-up course challenge
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...
Engineering for a better tomorrow
This was the title of the Dutch Process Technology Symposium at Twente University 6-7 July 2023. The whole symposium was about sustainability and circularity in a very lively atmosphere. The context: a cinema, with wide corridors and many round tables, facilitated...
EPIC highlights: Process Intensification is leading Process Innovation
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...
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...