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March 2025 CEP Preview

Instrumentation

Envisioning the Future of Automation

Evolving market requirements have increased the need for automation vendors to build process automation solutions that are more flexible, interoperable, open, and future-proof.

Reactions and Separations

Strategies for Mitigating Fouling in Ethylene Plants

This article reviews the fouling mechanisms affecting distillation towers in ethylene plants and presents design and operation strategies for preventing fouling.

Safety

Lies of Omission in Safety Data Sheets

The absence of a specific hazard on a safety data sheet does not necessarily indicate the hazard’s nonexistence. Assessing chemical hazards via alternative methods is imperative.

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Engineered Heart Muscle Offers Hope for Patients with Heart Failure

Floating Solar Panels Lead to Higher Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ponds

Carbon Cloth Electrodes Could Reduce the Cost of Seawater Desalination

New Method Makes an Economic Case for Recycling Polycotton

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Editorial: Smart Homes, Smarter Automation: The Push for Open Standards

Catalyzing Commercialization: Eliminating End-of-Life Plastics by Mechanochemical Recycling

AIChE Journal Highlight: Developing a Thermodynamics-Like Theory of Large Language Models

Process Safety Beacon: Static Accumulation Gives Warning Signs

New Products: Instrumentation; Laboratory Equipment; Fluids and Solids Handling; Heat Transfer; Materials and Chemicals; Environmental, Health, and Safety; Software; Operations and Maintenance

Emerging Voices: Slowing the Spread of Fires with Flame Retardants

Advanced Manufacturing Progress: Developing a Framework for Advancing Technologies from Idea to Operation

Meeting Preview: 2025 AIChE Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety, Apr. 6–10

Institute NewsAIChE Readies Program for 2025 Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety

NAE Elects AIChE Members to 2025 Class

Georges Belfort and Steven Cramer Are Awarded NAE’s Gordon Prize

The March issue of CEP is now available on the AIChE website, on the CEP app, and as a digital flipbook.

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