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...
by Jan Harmsen | Aug 31, 2022 | News
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...
by Jan Harmsen | Dec 21, 2021 | News, Vocabulary
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...
by Jan Harmsen | Nov 29, 2021 | News
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...
by Jan Harmsen | Oct 21, 2021 | News
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...