That vitamins A and D can now be produced to sell as cheaply as good brandy is a fact which the chemical engineers of Arthur D. Little, Inc. let out of the pandora box of industry last week. The ...

THE Transactions of the Society of Chemical Industry (58, No. 2; 1939) contain several papers presented last November to a meeting of the Chemical Engineering Group which dealt with the industrial ...

This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 4-7, New Orleans) highlights discussion surrounding ...

THE low vapour pressure of tin at temperatures up to 1,000° C. makes it possible to remove more volatile constituents of tin-rich alloys by vacuum distillation. The use of this method has been ...

A complex piece of equipment, the converging-diverging steam jet used in vacuum distillation units is subject to a wide array of malfunctions that are often misunderstood or overlooked by plant ...

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