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Call for abstracts - ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE POWER SYSTEMS
The bi-annual International Seminar on ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE POWER SYSTEMS will be held in Milano, Italy, on 12 - 15 - September 2017. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 10 December 2016.
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A useful link
When you have a few minutes with nothing to do (when would that be?) you could have a look at the Newsletter of SPIRE. You might even want to subscribe!
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Mecklenburgh’s Process Plant Layout Second Edition, and The Reintroduction of Layout Into Chemical Engineering Education
Process plant layout is an important engineering part in de development of a chemical plant. Although is getting less attention in chemical engineering courses, the importance does not decrease. To make it easier to teach process plant layout, a good book on it is required.
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Facts at your fingertips
What a lovely dream: our politicians pursuing fact-based policies instead of ideology- or phantasy-based policies. Except that getting hold of the facts can be maddeningly frustrating. We ourselves often can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Call for papers
A field that does not get much attention on this website is applied inorganic chemistry. Therefore, it is good to notice the announcement of the 26th ATC 2017: Industrial Inorganic Chemistry – Materials and Processes, which will be held on 23 – 24 February 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Jaherestreffen
The big sister of NPT in Germany – ProcessNet – will bundle the yearly meetings of its working groups for Separations, Crystallization, Adsorption and Extraction, Fluid Processing and Membrane technology. The result will be a 3-day scientific meeting in Cologne in March next year.
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Vanishing spirits and surfactants in an oak barrel or the end of the silly season
Here is the recipe: 1) Leave a few drops of vodka in your glass. 2) Let evaporate overnight. 3) Inspect. There is nothing to be seen.
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More on EPS
On 29 March we reported on a way to recycle Expanded Poly-Styrene (EPS, also known as ‘Piepschuim’). Recycling EPS solves several problems at the same time
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If not ‘green’, then at least less ‘gray’
It is not necessary to resort to ‘green’ fuel to reduce GHG emissions. The transport industry – both road and air transport – is notoriously resistant to change in this area, while they are equally notorious polluters.
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Winnend concept TRL-bioraffinage
Met de nieuwste technologie een winstgevende bioraffinagefabriek opzetten, met houtpellets als grondstof. Dat kan, volgens het winnend concept van studenten aan de TU Delft.