Episodes
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Guests on this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast are Martha Moore, chief economist at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and Scot Jensen, director of issue communications at ACC. The two talk with senior editor Scott Jenkins about data from the ACC's recently released 2024 Year End Situation and Outlook, a report on economics affecting the chemical manufacturing industry.
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The Chemical Engineering magazine editors highlight articles from the January 2025 issue and discuss recent coverage.
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The Chemical Engineering editors discuss content in the December 2024 issue
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The Chemical Engineering editors discuss content appearing in the November 2024 issue, as well as upcoming webinars.
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In this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, our guests are Heather Turner and Jesus Atias, two leaders of Dow Chemical's Packaging & Specialty Plastics business. Heather and Jesus, the marketing director and product director for North America, respectively, for Circular and Renewable Solutions at Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics, discuss the state of plastics recycling and relate their experiences fostering collaborations and partnerships surrounding plastics circularity.
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On this edition of the Chemical Engineering podcast, we speak with Ricardo Cuetos, VP of Sales Americas and Sustainability at INEOS Styrolution America. Ricardo talks about the current progress of plastics recycling and how to move toward a more circular polymer industry.
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, our guest is Moe Tanabian, the chief product offiicer at industrial software company Cognite. We talk with Moe about the potential of artificial-intelligence-powered large language models (LLMs) for companies i the chemical process industries (CPI).
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, our guest is Joana Adriano, the Global Talent Acquisition Manager at Solvay Group. Joana discusses the image of the chemicals industry among younger science and engineering graduates and shares her experiences with Solvay in attracting talent to the industry and to the company.
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On this episode of the CE Podcast, we talk about the history of chemistry and chemical engineering with our guest David Cole, the president and CEO of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
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Guests on this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast are polymer chemistry Scott Trenor, a principal scientist at Milliken Chemical Company, and Anindya Mukherjee, co-founder of GO!PHA, an organization promoting the use of polyhydroxyalkanoates as alternatives to traditional petroleum-derived polymers. The two discuss the plastic waste problem, plastics recycling and the circular economy.
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On this episode of the CE Podcast, guest Kraig Kmiotek, Product Manager for Process Analytics at Metrohm USA, discusses the connections between the digital transformation of Industry 4.0 and inline/online process analysis. Among other things, Kraig discusses best practices and common issues associated with capturing a representative sample of process fluid.
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Honeywell UOP Chief Technology Officer Gavin Towler discusses the current state of key energy-transition technologies, such as hydrogen generation and storage, and carbon capture and utilization, with Chemical Engineering magazine senior editor Scott Jenkins.
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On this edition of the Chemical Engineering podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon, senior principal in the Climate Intelligence Program at RMI. In the interview, Gordon discusses her recent book "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World," and explains the Oil Climate Index Plus Gas (OCI+), a new analytic tool to compare the lifecycle climate impacts of global oil and gas resources.
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins is joined by eschbach GmbH and North America founder and CEO Andreas Eschbach, who discusses the progress and implications of the digital transformation in the chemical process industries, and talks about the challenges of plant shift changeovers . . . (30 min)
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, our guest is Aniruddha Sharma, co-founder and chief executive of Carbon Clean, a global leader in post-combustion carbon capture technology and services. Sharma shares his thoughts on the recent COP26 climate meeting, as well as the current state of carbon capture technology and how it might change in coming years.
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, our guest is Leon De Bruyn, CEO of Lummus Technology. Leon discusses the company's first year as an independent company, as well as major trends affecting the chemical process industries, such as decarbonization, digitalization and the role of innovation.
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In this episode, Chemical Engineering senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Matt Dixon and Karim Mahraz, both engineers at Swagelok and experts on grab-sampling systems. Matt and Karim discuss the most common problems associated with grab sampling and offer suggestions on how best to avoid them (29 min.)
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In this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Ian Riley, the CEO of the World Cement Association (WCA) about the most widely produced human-made material in the world. Ian discusses the prospects for more sustainably produced cement and concrete, focusing on new innovations in cement chemistry and approaches for less energy-intensive production (25 min.)
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On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, I talk to Ann-Marie Walters, marketing director for the process industries at Bentley Systems. She provides insights "digital twins" of physical assets at process plants, including their uses and business impact. Anne-Marie and I also discuss the use of digital twins by plants that won awards as part of Bentley's Year In Infrastructure virtual event.
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On today's episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, I discuss blockchain technology with Hannah Davis, the blockchain project lead at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She provides an explanation of what blockchain is, and describes use cases that are relevant for the chemical process industries (CPI).
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