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 | 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...
