by D.A. Reay
Heat transfer, heat exchangers and process intensification have featured strongly in 2011. The UK hosted (in Manchester) the 3rd European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC), that many PIN members attended. Later in this issue you will find a summary of what Roger Benson said on the opening day of the Conference.
Adam Harvey and I were approached by Andy Furlong, Director of Policy and Communication at the Institution of Chemical Engineers during the 3rd EPIC Conference (see article below), with a view closer links between the IChemE and PIN ...
Former ICI head of manufacturing technology Roger Benson says that after 30 years of false starts, the time has come for process intensification (PI) technologies to make a major breakthrough in the chemical and process industries ...
New editions of 'heat pipes' and 'process intensification' are planned, Elsevier has invited the authors of the two above books ...
Would you like to install a heat pump in your home? The Heat Pump Association, (your Editor is an Honorary Life Member), has, in conjunction with other Trade Associations, produced a most useful guide ...
The Energy Saving Trust also provides a Guide to assist those considering purchasing and installing domestic heat pumps ...
I have known Lenard Vasiliev for many years, through our common interest in heat pipes, heat pumps and related technologies ...
A Further Contribution from Professor Vasiliev and The Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute, Minsk ...
Roshan Jachuck, who many HEXAG and PIN members will remember when he was at Newcastle University, recently sent me data on the company he set up in the USA - R3 Fusion ...
For those of us who like 'Technology Foresight' exercises, the report on process intensification and the impact it could have upon our lives in the timeframe to 2050 ...
Heat Pipe-based Emergency Cooling System for Nuclear Reactors and Spent Fuel Ponds. At the Japan Association of Heat Pipe Meeting, Waseda University on 9 July 2011 ...
Tadhg O'Donovan from Heriot-Watt University and researchers at Trinity College, Dublin have been investigating high resolution measurement techniques for heat fluxes ...
HEL's 12th Conference in Cambridge on Flow & Batch Process Development for Hydrogenation and other catalytic reactions last week ...
HEL's 20L Capacity Pressure Reactor is installed in the Centre for Nanomaterials at ARCI, Hyderabad. HEL is proud to have recently installed our 20L pressure reactor system ...
Thermal management at the micro-scale is of interest to those practising process intensification, as well as electronics engineers ...
Thermacore has plants in the USA and in the UK (Ashington, Northumberland), and are active HEXAG and PIN members. The company is perhaps best known for its work on heat pipes ...
This study includes substantial data on the potential of process heat recovery in steel and aluminium companies ...
A researcher in Uzbekistan has proposed a plan for solar-powered lasers using small parabolic mirrors about 3 feet in diameter, combined with new two-layer ceramic disks to produce laser light ...
The European Ground Source Heat Pump Association promotes ground source heat pump technology in a number of ways. One of its press links refers to a study of the US market for these devices, that naturally puts cost and lack of awareness as barriers to their uptake ...
nternational specialists and heat pump experts met in Nürnberg from 28–29 September for an intensive exchange of views on the current political framework, technical solutions and advances in research and development ...
The Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ) has recently established an international award, which is named as the Shiro Nukiyama Memorial Award, on the 50th anniversary. This Award shall be bestowed to a scientist, preferably under 50 years of age ...
The curing of composites can be very heat-sensitive in some applications. Reporting in 'Flight International' 13-19 December 2011, Sunaero state that the use of infrared heaters can give substantial performance gains ...
I met Tony Lesowiec, Head of Commercial Partnering at PERA for a discussion at Newcastle University in December ...
hiTRAN.SP design and simulation software in now available as a 'plug-in' for HTRI Xchanger Suite® and Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating® ...
The 30th November 2011 saw the opening of the UK’s largest carbon capture (CC) pilot plant at SSE's Ferrybridge Power Station in West Yorkshire. The project, which is a collaboration between SSE, UK based Doosan Power Systems and Vattenfall ...
One of Professor Colin Ramshaw's many papers on process intensification, in particular using centrifugal forces, was that published in Heat Recovery Systems & CHP in 1993 ...
