Commissioning is a vital step near the end of a plant’s construction, its purpose to hand over a safe, efficient and operation-ready facility to the owner. It is the planned coordination and execution ...

Dow has a diverse portfolio of manufacturing chemical and power plants and a rich heritage of process automation to run them. As facilities grow and expand, they tend to accumulate a wide range of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Over the years I have worked with a variety of power plant engineers. In doing so, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing 1. The highly respected, seasoned old engineer who knows the plant like the “back of ...

Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn State engineers. "What every biofuel manufacturer wants to do is to get to the ...

Lotuses grow in a fountain outside JJ Richardson’s apartment in Melbourne. One day, Richardson, a chemical engineer at the University of Melbourne, noticed the flowers while walking by and thought ...

We spend billions of pounds and decades of research trying to build machines that can clean the air, move water, […] ...