The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Issue Spotlight

May

In the May 2013 issue of CJChE we highlight "Heat transfer and flow pattern in co-current downward steam condensation in vertical pipes-I: CFD simulation and experimental measurements" and “Heat transfer and flow pattern in co-current downward steam condensation in vertical pipes-II: Comparison with published work” whereby Professor Joshi and collaborators have developed a procedure to measure and simulate the condensation of steam flowing down inside a vertical tube, a process that occurs in many practical situations in power plants and the chemical industry.

April

This issue features a special section for the invited papers presented at the 61st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in London, ON (2011). We would also like to highlight another article in this issue, part of our special series on Chemical Engineering Research in Latin America: Gugliotta et al. show how to use ecofriendly chain transfer agents for the polymerization of acrylic monomers used in coatings and adhesives. This is an increasingly important requirement due to recent more stringent environmental regulations.

March

In the March 2013 issue of the CJChE we highlight the article of Taghavi and Frigaard on the sequential flow of fluids along near-horizontal pipes. This article is part of our CFD special series and has applications in the oil and gas industry during construction of wells, as well as pipelining, drilling and fracturing operations.

February

In the February 2013 issue of the CJChE, the article by Madeira and Rodrigues, part of our special series on Chemical Reaction Engineering, presents a unified view on how competitive effects between diffusion and first-order irreversible reaction in poisoned catalysts affect catalyst performance.

January

The January 2013 issue of the CJChE highlights an article by Bao et al. The article discusses how immobilized microorganisms can be used to degrade heavy oil, addressing important issues on the remediation of oil-contaminated environments.

December

The December issue of the CJChE highlights contributions from the 4th Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (ADCONIP). The papers in the ADCONIP special section cover topics such as estimation and monitoring, advanced process control, process optimisation and controller performance assessment.

October

The October issue of the CJChE contains an article by Tavares and Melo that proposes a method to utilize solid waste generated in the electroplating industry as aggregates for manufacturing concrete paving blocks by means of the solidification/stabilisation technique and evaluate their water absorption properties and compressive strength. The proposed method is an important step towards reaching the goals of current environmental policies that aim to minimise solid waste generation and increase recycling.

August

The August issue of the CJChE contains a special section dedicated to papers on modelling, simulation and experimental approaches in nanoscience and nanotechnology applied to the chemical industry, collected from presentations given at the Nano-Thailand International Conference on Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World in November 18-20 2010.

June 2012

The June issue of the CJChE includes the second manuscript in John Grace’s Chemical Reaction Engineering special series. The critical review paper by Anthony G. Dixon, Fixed bed catalytic reactor modelling—the radial heat transfer problem, covers radial heat transfer phenomena in fixed bed catalytic reactors, identifying perceived problems and recent advances in the field.