Articles on Chemical

Condensation is the heat transfer process that changes a gas or vapor to a liquid. It is employed in the reflux process to improve the efficiency of distillation. Condensation can also be employed for producing saturated liquid products, for sub-cooling, or to serve an environmental or vapor recovery function. Condensation is carried out in a variety of configurations. By properly monitoring chemical condensers, plants can ensure that distillation and other processes run as efficiently as possible.

Reboilers, or vaporizers, are heat exchangers that provide heat to the bottom of a distillation tower. They boil the bottom liquid to generate vapors which are returned to the tower to drive the distillation separation process.

Separation and purification is a crucial part of all industrial operations that deal with chemicals. Selecting a separation technology from among 20 leading varieties depends upon a chemical’s nature, the number of phases, and the capacity, speed and efficiency required.

In the chemical industry, level instrumentation is required to measure continuous liquid levels in flammable tanks and to prevent potential overfill. Chemical plants stringently enforce environment, health, and safety (EH&S or HS&E) management practices with the expectation that their suppliers have a similar culture.

Makeup water treatment is a critical component of the steam generation cycle. It is the means to resupply the system with water suitable for boiler and other operations that, for whatever reason, was lost in the cycle

Environmental laws and restrictions mandate the precise monitoring of flare gas in the oil and gas industry.