In current competitive market scenario, there is a huge pressure on the product margins and production capacities. This situation is posing big challenges for business heads to retain their current market shares as well as getting new customers. Therefore, continuous process improvement is a major challenge for the manufacturing team, which is a requirement from […]
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Digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in chemical process industries are in starting phase. However, we have witnessed huge transformation of chemical industries. Before 18th century production of chemicals was in batch mode. The plant operation was totally manual and human dependent. At that time product delivery was on top priority as
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In almost every chemical plant we use distillation column to separate the components based on their boiling point difference. Also, we know distillation columns are the major consumers of steam & cooling water utilities. Therefore, to increase the contribution margin of the product it is necessary to minimize energy requirement in distillation process. We can
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In reality all chemical reactions are reversible in nature. Moreover, final conversion of raw materials depends on the ratio of forward and backward reaction rates. During the reaction, at equilibrium state concentrations of reactants and products don’t change. Also, for some reactions when forward reaction is too high in comparison with reverse reaction rate and
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The Chemical Engineer is a versatile engineer among all other type of engineers. They design and operate the chemical plants, which manufacture valuable and useful products from low value and waste materials. Moreover, a chemical engineer is responsible for the environment sustainability and operational safety also. A chemical engineering graduate starts his or her carrier
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What Is Chemical Engineering? Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering. This is related with process design, construction and operation of the chemical plants. Major processes involved in chemical plants for example are Reaction, Absorption, Distillation, Extraction, Filtration and Drying etc. Chemical engineering is all about transforming cheaper or waste raw materials into valuable and useful products.
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In chemical process industries distillation columns are widely used unit operation. And, based on the production capacities this can be batch distillation or continuous distillation process. What is Distillation Column? Distillation column separate a feed stream having multiple components into two different streams based on the difference in boiling points. So, higher the boiling point
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In chemical engineering, model equation enable us to understand the behavior of the process. Therefore, using mathematical models we can run the process virtually and get optimum operating process parameters. Afterwards, we can use these optimized parameters for real life process. System Description We have an agitated reactor having volume V, in which two liquid
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Pumps are just like a heart of any chemical plant, which are continuously running for feeding, circulating or transferring fluid from one point to another point inside a plant. For trouble free operation, appropriate selection of pumps is very important. For this you need to know the nature and characteristics of the service fluid .
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Background In real life as a process engineer we face situations where we need to calculate the velocity distribution and film thickness of falling film outside of a circular tube. For example, falling film evaporator, falling film gas absorption, where a viscous fluid flows upwards through a small circular tube and after that it overflow
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