Refinery vacuum distillation units (VDUs) use ejector systems to establish and maintain distillation-column pressure for capturing valuable crude fractions and reducing vacuum residuum. Reliable ...

That vitamins A and D can now be produced to sell as cheaply as good brandy is a fact which the chemical engineers of Arthur D. Little, Inc. let out of the pandora box of industry last week. The ...

This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum (Oct. 4-7, New Orleans) highlights discussion surrounding ...

THE Transactions of the Society of Chemical Industry (58, No. 2; 1939) contain several papers presented last November to a meeting of the Chemical Engineering Group which dealt with the industrial ...

Alcohol-free wine and beer starts out as a “real” wine or beer, before the alcohol is removed. The most common methods of doing this are vacuum distillation and reverse osmosis. Vacuum distillation ...

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