Process Industries Quarterly

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Process One-quarter of total industrial water Chlorination pH, hardness, corrosivity, litmus formation (Fe, Mn)... 

Two major technological advances occurred during the first quarter of the twentieth century. In 1917, Osborne and Mendel demonstrated that unheated soybean meal is inferior in nutritional quality to properly heated soybean meal. Thus, the value of soybean seed meal as a feed and the potential for the development of a soybean processing industry were established. 

Between 1900 and 1930 instrumentation in the process industries consisted of a few field indicators and recorders. Stillmen and firemen would go from one indicator to another and control the process by making a quarter-turn adjustment to a globe valve. 

Two-thirds of all chemists in industry have been employed in the chemical process industries over the past quarter century. Between 1950 and 1970, the proportion of industrial chemists employed by the chemicals and allied products industry alone increased from one-third to about one-half at the same time, chemists constituted a growing fraction of the total labor force in the chemical industry. 

Every year, about 50 million t hydrocarbons are discharged into the atmosphere from refineries and automobile exhausts, about 20 million t from incineration plants, and about 20 million t from other man-made sources [10, 11], of which only part is aromatic. These emissions could contain some 10-20 million t volatile aromatics [12]. Another estimate is based on world emissions of hydrocarbons from stationary plants of 54 million t (USA 7-18 million t) and from mobile sources (transportation means) of 34 million t (USA 12-20 million t) [13]. It has also been calculated that world evaporation losses of hydrocarbons from the production and processing of petroleum amount to 44.7-68 million t (approx, one-quarter of this in refineries), and emissions from the combustion of by-products in the oil processing industry to 28 million t [5]. In these figures, too, the volatile aromatics naturally account for only a portion, perhaps one-fifth. 

Tlie DOE Office of Environmental Safety and Health distributes monthly summaries ba.scd on data retreived from the DOE Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) to share chemical safety concerns throughout the industry to alert operators of similar processes. In addition quarterly and annual reviews feature lessons learned from ORPS by trending analyses of ini an... 

A weekly publication of McGraw-Hill. This excellent pubheation concentrates on the news and business aspects of the chemical industry. It periodically has excellent marketing and sales studies for various products. It also publishes annually a plant-site-selection issue and a Buyers Guide. The Buyers Guide lists the major producers and the source of supply for over 6,000 chemical products, and has a list of chemical trade names. It publishes, quarterly, the current financial condition of 300 companies involved in chemical processing. 

A quarterly publication of Industrial Research Service, Inc., Dover, N.H. It gives cost data for process engineers. Each year it pubhshes an index and abstract of cost literature. 

Benner, M. J. Tushman, M. 2002. Process management and technological innovation a longitudinal study of the photography and paint industries. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(4) 676. 

The need to conserve raw materials and enhance the yield of high-value products has led the petrochemical industry to rely increasingly on processes that involve catalytic selective oxidation. In turn, this reliance has led to the emergence of important new technologies in the past decade—processes that use selective catalytic oxidation now generate almost a quarter of all organic chemicals produced worldwide. 

REOCNTEK has completed the licensing process for its first full scale facility in Newman, Illinois. With the assistance of its corporate parent PS Group, REOCNTEK has sold 15 million in industrial revenue bonds and will begin construction cn or about July 1, 1989. We expect this facility to begin operation during the first quarter of 1990. 

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