www.chemengonline.com August 2020 N® Cover Story 26 Part 1 Building a Sustainable Coatings Infrastructure Recent advances in coatings technologies are driving the industry toward more sustainable performance 31 Part 2 Corrosion Protection with Direct-toMetal Coatings Understanding the mechanisms driving corrosion-prevention technologies will help engineers to select the best coating materials and application procedures to ensure proper protection In the News 5 Chementator Making CO-rich syngas while avoiding carbon formation; Italian industry-academic collaboration yields prototype machine for making new masks; Stainless-steel alloy for additive manufacturing; Commercial plant will recover salts from incinerator flyash; Turning plastic waste into high-quality winter diesel fuel; and more 10 Business News Nouryon to build TBHP/TBA plant in Ningbo; Teijin to expand carbonfiber production in Germany; Calgon Carbon to expand activated-carbon production in Mississippi; Solvay starts up hydrogen peroxide facility in Vietnam; Tosoh to expand bromine production capacity; and more 12 Newsfront Virus Countermeasures Drive Worker Safety The COVID-19 threat has increased the urgency for implementing contagion-prevention strategies and controls for workers at industrial plant sites Technical and Practical 16 Technology Profile Cumene Production from Benzene This column outlines a process for the production of cumene from benzene starting material 16a Facts at your Fingertips Heat-Transfer System Maintenance for Downtimes This one-page reference provides information on how to utilize downtimes to perform maintenance procedures on heat-transfer-fluid systems 35 Feature Report Part 1 Pressure Instruments: Avoiding the Harmful Effects of Hydrogen Under the right conditions, the smallest atom can attack and disable sophisticated instrumentation. Understanding how this happens can help users avoid problems 35 26 Volume 127 | no. 8 12 35 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM AUGUST 2020 1 02_CHE_0820_TOC_pCV2_03.indd 1 7/20/20 12:11 PMhttp://www.chemengonline.com http://WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM