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Chemical Processing creates high readership by focusing on what keeps readers up at night. We see five key challenges that we try to incorporate into every article we write:
- Improving competitiveness
- Optimizing operations
- Complying with regulations
- Retaining expertise and institutional knowledge
- Maintaining job opportunities
Our editorial expertise and industry relationships translate into an informed and engaged readership—which, in turn, creates a powerful advertising environment for your products. View an editorial preview for an upcoming issue.
Chemical Processing's Editorial Mission
- To foster greater reliability, efficiency and competitiveness of chemical plants, while enhancing quality, environmental and safety performance.
- To share best practices for the design of plants and the selection, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of key process elements and equipment.
- To represent the interests of engineers and other professionals involved in the design and operation of chemical plants.
- To lead the chemical industry in raising the level of discussion of challenges and the involvement of all groups within the industry in addressing them.
In Each Issue
Each issue of Chemical Processing provides practical information aimed at helping technical professionals successfully address those challenges-through articles and columns written by industry experts coupled with staff-written stories and columns.
The magazine's content is specifically organized around key factors:
- Cover Story looks at emerging issues and developments that promise to significantly impact the chemical industry.
- Design and Optimization provides practical guidance on how to set up a process and select equipment.
- Maintenance and Optimization offers pointers for making the most of plant assets.
- Regulatory Compliance deals with governmental and other mandates for environmental and safety performance.
Plus, two technical areas that are crucial to most plants get monthly coverage:
- Solids and Fluids Handling focuses on equipment and systems that handle process materials.
- Instrumentation and Control covers the hardware and software used to monitor and regulate processes.
Practical, hands-on help also comes from:
- Plant InSites, in which Andrew Sloley, an experienced practitioner, provides pointers on successful approaches for troubleshooting specific plant problems.
- Process Puzzler lets readers pose their own problems and presents advice from other readers on how to deal with them.
- Making it Work details how a particular plant improved its operations by adopting innovative technology.
- Energy Expert focuses on how plants can optimize use of crucial and costly energy resources.
In addition, each issue features commentaries on broader issues facing the chemical industry:
- From the Editor offers the opinions of Editor in Chief Mark Rosenzweig on a broad range of topics related to the chemical industry-economic, technical, professional and more-gleaned from his decades of involvement with the industry and his extensive contacts.
- End Point gives U.K.-based Editor at Large Mike Spear, a veteran chemical engineer/editor, a forum for discussing technical trends and issues.
Chemical Processing's Editor in Chief
Mark Rosenzweig, a veteran of more than 35 years in technical publishing for the chemical industry, has been editor of Chemical Processing since 2003. His previous experience includes Editor in Chief of Chemical Engineering Progress magazine, published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, for 11 years. Before that, he spent more than 20 years at Chemical Engineering magazine, then published by McGraw-Hill, serving in increasingly responsible roles, including Managing Editor — Engineering Practice, Managing Editor — News, and for four years, European Editor, based in London. Elected a Fellow of the American institute of Chemical Engineers, Mark has been very active in that professional society, serving as chairman of its New York section and in key roles on national committees. He received a baccalaureate in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union, New York. His editorial awards include the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award for Editorial Excellence, given by American Business Media, for a series of articles on engineering ethics.