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Cover Story
28 Part 1 Overcoming Corrosive Processes with HighAlloyed
Stainless Steels Advanced high-alloyed stainless steels
with austenitic properties can address corrosion concerns in challenging
phosphoric- and nitric-acid processes
35 Part 2 What's Corroding Your Control Room?
Corrosion-induced failures are frequent in the electronics
products used in control rooms, but proper environmental
assessment, control and monitoring can help abate these
concerns
In the News
7 Chementator
A process for making longer carbon nanotubes; This process
converts organic food waste to liquid fertilizer; An inexpensive
adsorbent for removing silver from wastewater; Laminate
packaging that is easier to recycle; A very fast way to continuously
synthesize zeolites; and more
12 Business News
Linde starts up CO2 plant in Fort Worth; AkzoNobel and Atul to jointly build
MCA plant in India; Sasol announces polypropylene expansion in South
Africa; BASF to implement stepwise capacity expansion for U.S. MDI
production; and more
14 Newsfront 3-D Printing for Finished Products
Moving 3-D printing beyond prototyping toward production of finished parts has
driven innovation and spurred investment, but has also forced the industry to
address a host of challenges
17 Newsfront Smart Flow Monitoring for Better
Process Control Tighter control, increased safety and versatility result
from improved flow-measurement technology
Technical and Practical
26 Facts at your Fingertips Solids-Blending Processes
This one-page reference provides information on batch versus continuous
blending mechanisms
27 Technology Profile Ethylene Glycol Production from
Synthesis Gas This process description outlines a method for
producing ethylene glycol from synthesis gas
44 Feature Report High-Purity Chemicals: Processing
Equipment Essentials Some practical tips regarding the design
and fabrication of piping systems and equipment for high-purity applications
are presented here
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