Chemical Processing eHandbooks

Chemical Processing eHandbooks package together current topics that impact and influence your chemical facility. These eHandbooks offer a wealth of information on a single topic. Aimed at providing best practices, key trends, developments and successful applications, the eHandbooks aim to make your faculties as efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and economically competitive as possible.

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eHandbook: Get Trained On Temperature Measurement

To enhance your training, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook, which includes insight on:Measure Temperature Right — Pick the technique and technology that most...

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eHandbook: Trouble Shoot Pressure Measurement

Pressure measurement is used to monitor and control process plants. Understanding the principles and practices positively impacts the bottom line as well as enhances safety practices...

eHandbook: Keep Your Cool When Sensing Temperature

To help you keep your cool, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook.

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Maximize Level Measurement Performance

Accurate level measurement usually is essential for effective operations but reliably achieving it or selecting the best choice from multiple options often can seem difficult....

eHandbook: Leverage Level Measurement Learnings

To truly understand what your process is doing, you must understand how you are measuring its performance. Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook to help you leverage...

eHandbook: Improve Your Process Control And Operations

Most processes have room for improvement, sometimes substantial room, in how they are operated and even how they are designed. Various techniques can help identify areas requiring...

How Measurement Solutions Can Help Overcome Chemical Industry Challenges

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Expectations are shifting today because of a retiring workforce, the power of new technologies, and rising environmental and safety concerns. Download this eBook to examine key...

eHandbook: Keep Your Measurements On The Level

To truly understand what your process is doing, you must understand how you are measuring its performance. To level the field, Chemical Processing has put together an eHandbook...

Energy eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Excel At Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency delivers cost savings, environmental benefits, competitive advantages, and operational resiliency.

eHandbook: Extra Efforts Enhance Energy Efficiency

Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook to help you enhance your energy efficiency.

eHandbook: Electrify Your Energy Efficiency Efforts

It's not easy to maintain an energy program, but if you have the basics handled, you will be miles ahead of your competition.To give your energy efficiency a jolt, Chemical Processing...

eHandbook: Bank On Energy Efficiency Savings

Have you looked around your site for condensate that could be put to good use? Do you know what happens when a partial pressure causes poor performance in ancillary equipment?...

eHandbook: Achieve Better Energy Efficiency

Do you know how your equipment is operating? Have you done performance testing recently? If you have a general idea, be careful; generalizations can lead you astray. You must ...

Combustion & Fired Heaters: An Analytical Approach to Improving Safety & Efficiency

Refineries in the US alone spent a staggering 2.5 billion dollars on fuel consumption from natural gas in 2010. Fired heaters are the largest energy consumer in the manufacturing...

eHandbook: Engage in Energy Efficiency Efforts

This Chemical Processing eHandbook examines some of today’s energy efficiency challenges and way to navigate solutions for chemical manufacturers.Do you want to conduct more accurate...

eHandbook: Keep Your Cool about Steam Systems

Are you feeling stressed about your steam systems? Feeling challenged by issues such as energy loss, hot surfaces, plant downtime and personal injury risks?This Chemical Processing...

Environmental eHandbooks

eHandbook: Pursue More Effective Pollution Control

Pollution prevention responsibilities and costs can pose profound financial impacts on companies. Understanding treatment options for wastes and permissible emissions to the air...

eHandbook: Target Pollution Control

Regardless of politics and regulations, it’s in the best interest of industry to target pollution control. There are many reasons including corporate citizenship and the bottom...

CP Pollution Control eHandbook: Preclude Pollution Problems

Are you looking for proactive solutions to pollution issues? Pondering 2016 regulation challenges? Looking to improve safety, sustainability and cost savings? Considering how ...

Chemical Processing’s eHandbook: Improve Plant Safety

Systems are becoming more complex. This complexity is changing the nature of the accidents and losses we are experiencing. Process design and process safety are critical considerations...

Chemical Processing’s Process Safety eHandbook: Tips for Safer Processing

Major accidents with multiple fatalities continue to occur worldwide in theprocess industries, causing distress to those involved and massive costs to companies. Almost daily,...

CP eHandbook: Step Up Water Conservation

Chemical makers increasingly are focusing on water-related issues. In particular, concern over availability is spurring leading operating companies to implement a host of novel...

Flow eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Fortify Flow Fundamentals

Flow management in chemical plants ensures safety, quality, efficiency and prevents costly accidents.

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eHandbook: Tips For Better Flow Management

Flow management is essential for optimizing process performance, ensuring product quality and safety, minimizing environmental impact, and achieving regulatory compliance.

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Chemical Processing: Factor In These Flow Best Practices

Moving raw materials into a process, getting materials to pass through specific steps within an operation and transporting intermediate products between steps is challenging.

eHandbook: Foil Fluid Flow Frustrations

To help you foil fluid flow frustrations, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook.

eHandbook: Vanquish Flow Vexations

To help you vanquish vexations, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook.

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eHandbook: Vanquish Flow Vexations

Moving raw materials into a process, getting them to pass through specific steps within an operation, transporting intermediate products between steps, and finally sending finished...

eHandbook: Optimize Flow Success Factors

This eHandbook examines some of today’s flow challenges -- pumps, tubes and valves -- and offers solutions that can be implemented to help optimize your operations.It includes...

eHandbook: Foil Flubs With Flow

Keeping a plant operating economically means making the most of equipment by having a good maintenance program. To help you remove reliability roadblocks, Chemical Processing ...

Heat Exchangers eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Heed These Heat Transfer Best Practices

Proper selection, design, deployment and operation of equipment that heats or cools the materials are crucial.

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Heighten Your Heat Exchanger Know-How

Materials in a chemical process often must undergo a temperature change to bring them to a temperature that enables an operation to occur at its optimum point from an efficiency...

eHandbook: Get The Most From Your Steam Systems

Steam serves as a ubiquitous utility at most plants. It is used to generate mechanical shaft power, raise or maintain the temperature of fluids and materials in vessels and lines...

eHandbook: Keep Your Cool With Heat Exchangers

Heating and cooling are essential in many unit operations, to bring materials to an appropriate temperature for processing or subsequent handling. The extensive use of heat transfer...

eHandbook: Put Steam Into Your Efforts

The drive by some chemical companies to improve energy efficiency extends well beyond their production processes. Indeed, steam is a major focus and innovations in water-related...

CP eHandbook: Reliability/Asset Management

Reliability programs are now standard business practice in companies that rely heavily on machines, equipment and other physical assets. But, in today’s lean economy, companies...

Mixing eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Maximize Your Mixing Operation

Chemical processors face challenges in achieving durable, high-quality mixes. Learn about various mixing technologies and avoid mix-up mistakes.

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Militate Against Mixing Mistakes

Effectively contacting materials is crucial for operations. The wide variety of mixer types — dynamic and static, as well as in-tank and in-line — and the design options for the...

eHandbook: Manage Your Mixing

There are a wide variety of mixer types and the design options for the mixers and vessels can make selecting the right unit tough. To help you manage your mixing, Chemical Processing...

eHandbook: Put Powder Processing On Solid Footing

Dry mixing plays an important role in many processes. The wide variety of mixer types — dynamic and static, as well as in-tank and in-line — and the design options for the mixers...

eHandbook: Avoid Mixing Mishaps

Some companies think that their problems relate to mixing. In most cases, the difficulties result from not paying enough attention to the process and, sometimes, just from inadequate...

eHandbook: Mix Up Your Mixing Approach

Achieving blend uniformity is like trying to catch a leprechaun while riding a unicorn. Ingredient characteristics, blend hold times and mixing equipment all affect final quality...

eHandbook: Master These Mixing Best Practices

This Chemical Processing eHandbook takes a look at some of today’s mixing challenges for chemical manufacturers and some of the best practices that can be implemented to help ...

Mixing eHandbook: Avoid Mixing Mix-Ups

For chemical processors, ensuring a long-lasting, high-quality mix is a huge challenge regardless of the physical properties of the mixing component – liquid, gas, solid. In this...

Powder eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Harness Hazardous Dust

Safely manage materials to prevent dust exposure and contamination risks.

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eHandbook: Chip Away at Powder Challenges

Small changes in particle shape, composition, moisture or other parameters can have a big and sometimes surprising impact.

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BSTC Journal: Master Dust Collection: Key Considerations for Success

Everyday operations like mixing, drying, conveying and blending create dangerous dusts that can become airborne, endanger air quality and pose fire and explosion hazards.

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eHandbook: Solid Solutions for Powder Processing

Powder processing optimizes reaction kinetics, ensures product quality and enables the production of a wide range of materials with tailored properties.

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eHandbook: Perfect Your Pneumatic Conveying Best Practices

Pneumatic conveying offers numerous benefits regarding efficiency, safety, flexibility, and environmental compliance.

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Pulverize Pesky Dust and Particulates

Controlling toxic and combustible dust is a common yet serious challenge in chemical processing.

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Partake In Better Solids And Powder Practices

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The particularities of powders and solids must be properly taken into account in order to avoid a wide variety of problems. Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook...

eHandbook: Take A Closer Look At Powder And Solids Handling

Many processes involve powders as raw materials, intermediates or finished products. However, powders can pose a wide variety of problems. To help you get a closer look at your...

Refining eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Review These Refining/Petrochemical Best Practices

To identify opportunities for improved safety, equipment efficiency and substantial reductions in energy consumption in your refining operations, look to proven best practices...

eHandbook: Refine Your Operations

This eHandbook examines some of today’s refining challenges -- safety, pumps, and sticky hydrocarbons -- and offers solutions that can be implemented to help optimize your operations...

eHandbook: Fight Refining Frustrations

A modern refinery is a highly complex but integrated system, separating as well transforming heavier hydrocarbons into saleable fuels and chemicals. Improving efficiency and avoiding...

eHandbook: Confront Refinery Challenges

Refineries are faced with many challenges. Indeed, fluctuating oil prices and reduced availability of skilled workers, along with tighter environmental regulations have made it...

Refining eHandbook: Review These Refinery Best Practices

This Chemical Processing eHandbook examines some of today’s Refining challenges and solutions for chemical manufacturers. Download this Chemical Processing eHandbook for insights...

eHandbook: Refine Your Refinery

This Chemical Processing eHandbook examines some of today’s Refining challenges and solutions for chemical manufacturers.Download this Chemical Processing eHandbook for insights...

eHandbook: Tackle Refining Industry Challenges

Are you feeling stressed about how to navigate current refining industry challenges? The downstream oil sector has had more than its share of ups and downs recently. Market dynamics...

Reliability & Asset Management eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Review These Fundamentals for a Reliable Plant

Smart facilities are reliable: From flexible operations to real-time safety monitoring.

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eHandbook: Roll Out These Reliability Tips

To help you roll with reliability, Chemical Processing has put together this eHandbook, which includes insight on:Make Better Maintenance Decisions — A simplified approach for...

eHandbook: Raise Your Plant's Level Of Reliability

Keeping a plant operating economically means making the most of equipment and other hardware by having a good maintenance program. Knowing what to monitor and how is crucial.To...

eHandbook: Review These Reliability Best Practices

Reliability improves safety, efficiency, balance sheets and competitiveness. It’s a breeze when things work as they should. It’s only when things go awry that we realize we need...

eHandbook: Bank On These Batch Processing Best Practices

The nature of batch operations poses unique problems. Ensuring reagent chemicals are added at the optimal time so as not to cause a temperature change is crucial. Additionally...

eHandbook: Attain Better Reliability

The purpose of a reliability program is to ensure that a plant’s physical assets can meet production goals at the lowest possible unit cost while mitigating safety and environmental...

CP Reliability eHandbook: Manage Your Assets

Reliability programs are now standard business practice in companies that rely heavily on machines, equipment and other physical assets. However, plants are continually challenged...

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eHandbook: Improve Your Maintenance Practices

More than 25% of maintenance done today is unnecessary and can introduce additional failure risks. Developing and implementing predictive maintenance strategies and practices ...

Safety eHandbooks

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eHandbook: Solidify Your Process Safety Efforts

Process safety prevents accidents, protects lives, the environment and assets. Be prepared.

eHandbook: Put Powder Problems In Their Place

Powders and solids can pose a wide variety of problems. You have to ensure your devices are optimized in tandem with targeting hidden dangers powder and solids can present. Addressing...

eHandbook: Deftly Deal With Dangerous Dust

Controlling toxic and combustible dust is a common yet serious challenge in chemical processing. Everyday operations like mixing, drying, conveying and blending create dangerous...

eHandbook: Take A Closer Look At Process Safety

Dealing with safety issues can involve sophisticated techniques for hazard analysis and prescriptive measures for plant design and operation. It also can involve rethinking a ...

eHandbook: Optimize Process Safety

The need for process safety in the chemical industry is paramount. Technical knowledge and understanding of hazards and risks associated with operations in addition to the implementatio...

eHandbook: Review These Powder Best Practices

Powder handling can be dangerous and unpredictable. Indeed, many processes generate dust, which can lead to explosions. Preventing the generation of dust is easier, cheaper and...

eHandbook: Profit From Process Safety Pointers

Being pretty good at safety may not be good enough for very long. Indeed, the practice of safety in the chemical industry has changed and matured significantly over the past several...

eHandbook: Succeed at Process Safety

This Chemical Processing eHandbook examines some of today’s Process Safety challenges for chemical manufacturers and some of the best practices that can be implemented to make...

Separation Technologies eHandbooks

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Refine Your Filtration And Separation Systems

A chemical process often must include specific steps to transform the raw product into one that has the exact purity and properties desired. The material may contain co-products...

eHandbook: Dampen Distillation Troubles

Separating components by splitting them into liquid and vapor streams by distillation is a common and crucial operation at many plants. Many factors come into play in achieving...

eHandbook: Distill Your Distillation Operations

Separations operations account for roughly 50–70% of the energy used in large-scale chemicals manufacturing. Distillation dominates for such separations. It behooves you to be...

eHandbook: Improve Your Refinery

A modern refinery is a highly complex but integrated system, separating as well transforming heavier hydrocarbons into saleable fuels and chemicals. Improving a refinery is very...

eHandbook: Refine Refinery Operations

Poorly designed and overly simplistic energy performance indicators often drive energy savings at the expense of product yield or quality. To identify opportunities for substantial...

Wastewater eHandbooks

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Enhance Industrial Wastewater Management

Industrial wastewater management protects the environment, health, and resources while ensuring regulatory compliance.

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eHandbook: Don't Waste These Water/Wastewater Best Practices

Water disperses and conveys materials, serves as a cleaning agent for equipment and occasionally acts as a reactant in certain processes. Treat it right.

Chemical Processing eHandbook: Don’t Waffle On Wastewater

Water serves a wide variety of roles at plants, including as a vehicle to dilute or transport materials, as a means to clean equipment and, sometimes, as a reactant. As a result...

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Industrial plants are facing increasingly restrictive phosphorus discharge limits, forcing them to reduce their use of phosphorus treatment to control corrosion in open recirculatory...

eHandbook: Bolster Your Wastewater Treatment

Wastewater treatment is becoming an integral part of processes at many plants as more and more chemical makers worldwide strive to reuse and recover as much water as possible....

eHandbook: Achieve Better Water/Wastewater Efficiency

Not every water optimization program suits every wastewater. Indeed, there are several new technologies to consider as well as strategies to upgrade what’s already in place. Not...

eHandbook: Enhance Water/Wastewater Efficiency

This Chemical Processing eHandbook examines some of today’s efficiency challenges for chemical manufacturers and some of the best practices that can be implemented to help along...

eHandbook: Address Wastewater Challenges

Are you challenged by wastewater issues? Looking to improve your water quality and cut costs? Wondering about biological water treatment? Thinking about on-site testing to verify...