For over 120 years, Chemical Engineering magazine has highlighted state-of-the-art technologies and prioritized practical ...

A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chemical manufacturing has long relied on catalysts - substances that accelerate reactions without being consumed themselves. These catalysts typically exist as static entities, ...

Process Engineering encompasses the analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, design, control and operation of process systems, from micro-sized systems to huge industrial facilities. Many ...

Future sustainable industrial processes for synthesizing chemicals should avoid burning fossil fuels, produce no carbon emissions and be cheaper than current processes — industry will not adopt ...

A study by a team of University of Oklahoma researchers has been featured in Cell Reports Physical Science, an open-access journal highlighting cutting-edge research in the physical sciences. The ...

A simple new technique could boost the efficiency of some key chemical processing, by up to a factor of 100,000, researchers report. The reactions are at the heart of petrochemical processing, ...

Separating molecules is critical to producing many essential products. For example, in petroleum refining, the hydrocarbons – chemical compounds composed of hydrogens and carbons – in crude oil are ...

2024 was predicted to be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures exceeding 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Numerous organizations, industries, and nations have ...

Volatile fatty acid separation from biowaste. Cattle manure is anaerobically digested in a bioreactor, and the resulting broth is processed with redox-mediated electrodialysis. The volatile fatty ...