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Category Archives: Chemical Engineering
Large scale desalination with renewable energy: Breakthrough in Saudi Arabia
The fresh water-short desert kingdoms of the Middle East have long been the largest installers of desalination technology. How large can be deduced from the fact that the Saudis use 1.5 million barrels a day of crude oil to supply energy to its … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Energy Industry
Tagged solar energy
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Rare earths revisited: Monopoly broken but security issues remain
As readers of my blog know, I have an abiding interest in rare earth metals, since they are such a fundamental source of technology for use in computers, TV and other displays, windmills, medical imaging….the list goes on and on. As … Continue reading
Aircraft biofuel blending becoming a reality
While there is considerable controversy regarding the Greenhouse gas emission-related benefits of biofuels, a number of air lines, notably United, are starting to use a “natural” jet fuel produced by a process patented by UOP. The fact that this biofuel … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged Alternative chemical feedstocks, biofuels
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California water crisis deepens: Graphene membranes could provide a breakthrough
This blog has recently featured articles on the growing worldwide water crisis and on the potential of a new material called graphene which has exhibited amazing characteristics (strength, chemical resistance, flexibility) that could lead to breakthroughs in a number of areas. It … Continue reading
Chemicals Manufacturing: New Technologies, New Thinking
Consider this quote from a high level Chinese spokesman: As supply of capital, land and other factors is on the decline and resource and environmental restriction become more serious, the proportion of first and second industries, which consume capital, land … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Manufacturing
Tagged Manufacturing, material chemistry
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An immigrant’s son succeeded while “Big Oil” was seeking new oil fields abroad
George Mitchell, son of a Greek goatherder immigrant with an unpronounceable name, was born in Galveston in 1919 and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in petroleum engineering and geology. He recently died with a legacy: “cracking the … Continue reading
Sea water desalination: becoming a reality here
The technologies that can be used to make fresh water from sea water or partly salty bracking water have been used for a long time in locations where little fresh water exists (e.g. the Middle East). The processes employed are … Continue reading
Global Warming and GHG: Where are we?
President Obama plans a new effort in his second term to address climate change. No specific actions were mentioned in his inaugural address, but they will presumably be outlined in his State of the Union speech. Regardless of what he … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged Alternative energy, Climate Change, Energy policy
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We hear about Geoengineering: should we worry?
Climate manipulation ideas have been around for quite a while. In the middle of the last century, Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir at General Electric came up with the idea of seeding clouds with iodide crystals or dry ice to produce … Continue reading
“Digging deeper” into fracking issues
The controversies regarding the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to liberate huge qualitites of natural gas and oil now recoverable from shale formations will not soon go away. And the vigorous opposition to “fracking” should not and will … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged natural gas, petroleum, Technological Risk
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