The Corona crisis has enabled the rapid rise of several Chinese bioprocessing companies. The sudden explosion in demand for cell cultures and other products for the pharmaceutical and biological processing industries has made a number of previously unknown companies from the People's Republic amazingly successful in a short period of time.

For more than two decades, peristaltic (hose) pump technology has proven to offer the performance and reliability that can make it a first-choice pumping option for wastewater treaters who crave highly reliable, environmentally friendly, low-maintenance pump operation.

For many years, industrial gases were bought in China from Linde and its competitors Air Products and Air Liquide without thinking much of it. But now Linde & Co. and their market power are suddenly seen as a problem in the People's Republic.

E-crackers are the next big thing within the chemical process industry as it has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 90 %. The transition of this core industrial process has already begun with leading petrochemical companies looking to establish pilot e-cracker plants across Europe. PROCESS Worldwide revisits its ‘Progress on E-Cracking’ article by highlighting the top 3 e-cracker projects in the news this year.

The mixing of a viscoplastic fluid with an anchor impeller is studied visually. Three different types of experiments, documented through videos and still images, demonstrate the existence of an unyielded region, rotating like a rigid body. These results are in good agreement with previous workers’ numerical predictions, and dramatically show the influence of yield stress on mixing effectiveness, even with a well-designed agitation system. The unyielded region is the equivalent, for a close-clearance impeller, of the stagnant region outside the well-known ‘cavern’ forming around a small-diameter impeller. Furthermore, for such systems the presence of motion is not by itself a criterion by which quality of mixing can be assessed.

Two coater series in comparison, one highly specialised, the other for standard applications  - With coaters from the LC and LC light series, Lödige Process Technology offers two different machine concepts for the film coating of tablets. Pharmaceutical companies therefore have a choice when looking for the optimum task-specific solution. Systems can thus be realized that precisely meet the respective requirements.

Artificial intelligence start-ups have begun to revolutionize the Chinese pharmaceutical industry. With the help of algorithms and ‘Big Data,’ the development time for new drugs is being radically reduced, in some cases from ten to 15 years to just one to one and a half years. The Chinese start-ups with the best prospects are currently being showered with billions of dollars in investment. The general technological trend fueling this development is called bio convergence.

Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) pumps can be used for numerous applications and their unique characteristics such as simple start-up, self-priming capability, overload-proof, etc make them all the more attractive amongst industry players.

In a new study, a research group at Arizona State University explores different approaches to catalysis, a chemical process that plays an essential role in biological reactions, as well as many industrial applications.

By making use of efficient equipment – the Bauer PMSM technology along with Allweiler pumps – Stendal’s wastewater treatment facility in Germany is aiming to become entirely energy self-sufficient by 2025.