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Issue Highlights
- Salary and job satisfaction survey results
- The broader impact of energy management
Chemical industry starts to shine through clouds
In its third year, Chemical Processing’s online salary and job satisfaction survey provides reasons for optimism. The record 1,830 survey respondents’ answers indicate salaries, raises, bonuses and job satisfaction are all moving in a positive direction.
Energy management boosts competitiveness
Energy Saver columnist Christopher Russell advises that you consider all the motives and rewards for managing plant-wide energy consumption.
Webcast: What CEOs don't know about asset performance management
You are currently faced with convincing your CEO and CFO that the key to improving plant performance and financial results lies in asset performance management. To find out why CEOs and CFOs have been slow to appreciate the role of proactive maintenance, Invensys Process Systems performed a series of focus groups with these industrial facilities executives. This Webcast shares the findings and presents how to take advantage of the resulting new perspective on asset performance management.
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Researchers map out way to better reactions
Membrane combines thinness with stability
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Process Puzzler
A contractor has been asked to increase the plant capacity of an existing helical-coil vaporizer. The furnace already has an economizer. The results are disastrous — the plant maximum rate has been reduced by more than 10%. The vaporizer is running so hard the fins of the economizer are starting to burn off. The flame is too long. What can we do to eliminate this dangerous problem and increase the vaporizer rate while accounting for NOx limitations? Although the space between the coils is adequate, there is some concern about the coil skin temperature if we change the flame. What are your thoughts?
E-mail us at ProcessPuzzler@putman.net. Send us your comments, suggestions or solutions for this question by May 4, 2007. We'll include as many of them as possible in the June 2007 issue and all on CP.com. Send visuals — a sketch is fine. E-mail us at ProcessPuzzler@putman.net or mail to ProcessPuzzler, Chemical Processing, 555 W. Pierce Rd., Suite 301, Itasca, IL 60143. Fax: (630) 467-1120. Please include your name, title, location and company affiliation in the response. And, of course, if you have a process problem you'd like to pose to our readers, send it along and we'll be pleased to consider it for publication.
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Upcoming Events
INTERPHEX 2007
April 24 - 26, New York
3rd Annual Lean Six Sigma Summit
April 24 - 27, Chicago
World Conference on Quality and Improvement 2007
April 30 - May 1, Orlando, Fla.
