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Issue Highlights

Vaaler Awards: Two Products Win Honors
Many plants stand to benefit from these innovative products.

Sustainability Sustains Its Appeal
Chemical companies continue to foster a switch to green technology.

Compliance: Put Success Within REACH
Effectively meeting the mandate requires a new approach to environmental compliance management.

Case Study: Instruments Tame Troublesome Slurry
Two-step approach allows resin plant to more accurately dose additive.


1017_cartoonComical Processing: You Write The Cartoon Caption Winner
Congratulations to Kevin A. Wilke. Kevin submitted the winning caption to the Comical Processing cartoon.

A new cartoon has been posted.

 

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puzzle_piece_newProcess Puzzler
One of our welders got hurt cutting into a carbon steel header for a chilled brine line to install another chiller in the closed-loop system. He purged the piping but not the room. An invisible gas ignited from his torch. Our plant environment contains chlorine and other corrosives. What was source of the gas? How can we prevent future accidents and what do we need to change in the system to avoid such safety problems?

Send us your comments, suggestions or solutions for this question by November 6, 2009. We’ll include as many of them as possible in the December 2009 issue and all on ChemicalProcessing.com. Send visuals — a sketch is fine. E-mail us at
ProcessPuzzler@putman.net or mail to Process Puzzler, Chemical Processing, 555 W. Pierce Road, 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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Events Calendar

Water Experts Virtual Conference
November 5, 2009
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Automation Fair 2009
November 11-12, 2009
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The 2009 CHEM SHOW (53rd CPI Exposition)
November 17 - 19, 2009
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City


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