Continuous-process industries are at an inflection point regarding what they can do with automation, making now an ideal time to address inefficiencies and hazards. The era of the remote workforce has ...

Industrial processes contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Since industry often uses fossil, carbon-based energy sources as raw materials and often requires high process temperatures, ...

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

Digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are some examples of rapidly developing areas of technology that will have a big impact on how ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For example, they make it possible to synthesize chemicals in a more ...

Union organizing, collective bargaining and grievance procedures are among the many steps to achieve productive labor-management relationships. Industrial relations processes -- labor-management ...

Catalysts are used in a wide variety of industrial processes around the world in everything from the production of medicines, fertilizers, plastics, and other household products to the processing of ...

Dynamic data reconciliation (DDR) represents a cornerstone in the modern control and monitoring of continuous and batch chemical processes. By integrating temporal process models with on-line ...

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 ...