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Engineering & Business Magazine Reviews

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000

I get a lot of work-related magazines across my desk, and definitely have my preferences in what I find useful as a process engineer & consultant. I thought I would share my narrow, heavily biased opinions, because maybe it will help some of you make the right choices for yourself. My magazine goals I usually [...] Related posts:

Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing: Favored book and website

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:47:31 +0000

Last year my work took my to a small group specialized in engineering support for sulfuric acid plants, mainly those helping the mining industry have plants on hand for processing ore. You know H2So4, right? Sitting in the office of one of most the senior guys there, who I definitely respect, a huge yet well-worn [...] Related posts:

Overspilling (Multi-Page) Datasheets in Aspen Basic Engineering

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:10:07 +0000

An important part of using Apsen Basic Engineering (Zyqad) is having properly set up equipment and instrumentation datasheets, that can read key information from your project database and drop it into a customized datasheet that your clients and customers can understand. This isn’t usually a problem. Most datasheets are easily standardized forms, where a certain [...] Related posts:

Recalled to life

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:40:15 +0000

The website was down Dec. 6th and 7th. I was updating Introduction to Pressure Relief Valves Part 3 and ran into a nasty WordPress bug that deleted all of the articles and locked me out of writing anything new. I had to revert the site to it’s Dec. 3rd state to fix things. If you [...] Related posts:

Hysys Tips and Tricks for Logical Units and Reactors

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:23:56 +0000

I stumbled upon this classroom course one day, while trying to do something particularly difficult in Aspentech’s Hysys. I learned a lot. The intricacies of the balance function, the different kinds of reactions, how to leverage the spreadsheet operation. If you’re a heavy Hysys user, you may pick up some valueable tips at this Rice [...] Related posts: