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NOVEMBER 2007 • VOLUME 70, ISSUE 11 PAT isn’t standing pat 27 Pursue the perfect plant Design and Optimization Look into creating the “perfect plant” by integrating product and operational management into your environment. This provides the ability to respond faster and minimize impact to the business and bottom line, driving increased yields, asset utilization and order ful llment. Cover Story Traditional laboratory-based analytical techniques more and more are moving online and even being replaced by the virtual analysis offered by soft sensors and inferential measurements. 33 Eliminate exchanger tubing troubles Maintenance and Operations Today, many companies consider coating the inside of carbon steel tubes a best practice for extending the performance and lifecycle of a heat transfer system. 20 COLUMNS 7 From the Editor Celebrity cheers on U.S. manufacturers. DEPARTMENTS 13 In Process • Novel membranes promise pore performance • Shells egg on hydrogen output 38 Portable conveyor speeds paint production Making it Work Unit ensures a consistent ow of soft acrylic powder without lumps or sticking, improving the production of thermoplastic paint. 9 ChemicalProcessing.com Multimedia stakes its claim. 11 Field Notes Old dogs can learn new tricks. 40 Process Puzzler Deter dryer dif culties. How’s our content? Tell us what you like or what you would like to see but didn’t in this issue of Chemical Processing. Use this link www.surveymonkey.com/ s.asp?u=110833089655 to provide your feedback. 17 Energy Saver Put energy into people issues. 43 Equipment & Services 45 Product Spotlight/ Classiﬁeds 49 Ad Index 19 Compliance Advisor Devices get reclassi ed as pesticides. 42 Plant InSites Carefully check vendor references. 50 End Point Waste not, want not… Chemical Processing (ISSN 0009-2630) is published monthly by Putman Media Inc., 555 West Pierce Road, Suite 301, Itasca, IL 60143. Phone (630) 467-1300. Fax (630) 467-1109. Periodicals postage paid at Itasca, IL, and additional mailing of ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Chemical Processing, P.O. Box 3434, Northbrook, IL 60065-3434. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Quali ed reader subscriptions are accepted from operating management in the chemical processing industries at no charge. To apply for a quali ed subscription, ll in the subscription card. To nonquali ed subscribers in the United States, subscriptions are $68 per year. Single copies are $14. Canadian and foreign annual subscriptions are accepted at $115 surface per year. Single copies are $16. Canada Post International Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement No. 40028661. Canadian Mail Distributor information: Frontier/BWI, PO Box 1051, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, L2A 5N8. Copyright 2007 Putman Media Inc. All rights reserved. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the consent of the copyright owner. REPRINTS: Reprints are available on a custom basis. For price quotation, contact Foster Reprints, (866) 879-9144, www.fostereprints.com also publishes Control, Control Design, Food Processing, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Plant Services. Chemical Processing assumes no responsibility for validity of claims in items reported. www.chemicalprocessing.com November 2007 • 5 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=110833089655 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=110833089655 http://www.fostereprints.com http://www.chemicalprocessing.com

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Chemical Processing - November 2007 Contents From the Editor ChemicalProcessing.com Field Notes In Process Energy Saver Compliance Advisor PAT isn't Standing Pat Pursue the Perfect Plant Eliminate Exchanger Tubing Troubles Portable Conveyor Speeds Paint Production Process Puzzler Plant InSites Equipment & Services Product Spotlight/Classifieds Ad Index End Point

Chemical Processing - November 2007

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