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In this section, Dr. Joel Shertok addresses a variety of chemical engineering-related topics, including process design and scale-up issues, news topics impacting chemical engineering practices, process safety, and emerging technology trends.
The Race to Repurpose Nature’s Protein Factories
The molecular machines that cells use to build proteins are backed by a billion years of evolution. In that time, these machines—ribosomes—have become exceptionally good
Public Money is set to Stimulate Supply of Sustainable Hydrogen
The production of carbon-neutral hydrogen, dubbed green hydrogen, and of low-carbon hydrogen, dubbed blue hydrogen, is set to increase around the world in 2021. “There’s
3-D Printing Complex Objects in a Flash
Taking advantage of molecules that switch states when exposed to particular wavelengths of light, researchers have developed a 3-D printing method that can make precise
2021 Startup Predictions: Trends, Sectors, And Tech That Will Emerge
There aren’t many positives to take out of 2020, but the extraordinary progress made in digital transformation is one silver lining. Rapidly maturing software technologies
Brexit: This Is How The Final Agreement Between The United Kingdom And The European Union Remained At The Last Minute
Brexit: This Is How The Final Agreement Between The United Kingdom And The European Union Remained At The Last Minute After months of negotiations and
DeepMind solves 50-year-old Challenge in Predicting Protein Folding
This week, the artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaFold, developed by Google’s DeepMind, has solved a decades-old problem in biology: determining a protein’s 3D structure based
Is Green Investing Influencing the Value of Chemical Companies?
In the past couple of years, the stock market has not been kind to DuPont, 3M, and Chemours, three giants of the global chemical industry.
Work at Home? How to Separate Work and Personal Life
Do You Own a Home-Based Business? There are now more than 30 million small companies in the United States. Moreover, home-based businesses account for half of these.
What is Industry 4.0 and What Place Does Small Business Have in It?
What is Industry 4.0? Industry 1.0 started in the second half of the 18th century with mechanization from 1760 – 1830. Machines and tools replaced
Who Pays When a Graduate Student gets Hurt?
On Nov. 2, 2018, chemistry PhD student Shiva Dastjerdi was working in her Boston University research lab synthesizing candidates for cancer drugs. She was walking
Watch how Coronavirus Spreads Indoors in a Room, a Bar, and a Classroom
A stunning visualization produced by the Spanish newspaper El País is built off a scientific model that predicts how the virus transmits through aerosols. Scientists
Self-driving Cars are Coming. Chemical Makers are Racing to Keep Up
Talk with businesspeople and policy makers involved in mobility, and it becomes clear that self-driving cars are not a matter of if, but when. These
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Joel joins host Victoria Meyer on The Chemical Show to share his valuable insights into the shifting trends in chemical education, industry research, and the challenges faced by startups in scaling chemical innovations.
THE ART OF SCALE-UP — THE SUCCESSFUL CHEMICAL PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO CREATING A PROFITABLE PROCESS
Dr. Joel Shertok addresses chemical engineering concerns in an industrial environment, emphasizing the importance of piloting a reduced scale process to mimic proposed commercial operations. Topics include reactor considerations, separations, and materials of construction (MOC). Subtopics include descriptions, illustrations, and examples of reaction kinetics, mass transfer, mixing, kinetic control, distillation, crystallization and fractional crystallization, separation methods, ion exchange, filtration, selection criteria for materials of construction, energy sources and uses.
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