Heat transfer fluid maintenance and analysis are essential operations. This avoids serious problems that may occur if such cautious steps are not taken. (Picture: Global Heat Transfer)
Heat Transfer/Safety

How to Keep Heat Transfer Systems Safe and Efficient

The pharma industry has come a long way since Alexander Fleming famously discovered penicillin. The current global pharmaceuticals market is estimated to be worth $300 billion a year and is growing rapidly. Pharmaceutical manufacturing is not only big business, but also pivotal in keeping the population healthy. Here are the best practices for keeping heat transfer systems running efficiently in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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Support for bio-based products is firmly anchored in the policies of many governments and the targets they have set are ambitious.  (Dennis Schroeder / NREL )
Trend Report: Bio-Based Products

The Quest for the Holy Grail of Bio-Based Products

Because of low crude oil prices, times are hard for bio-based chemicals as they can rarely compete with their fossil counterparts pricewise and cannot even play a trump card in the matter of climate change. Nevertheless, industry and academia are developing bio-based processes fervently and with the prerequisite that the products must not be more expensive than conventional ones.

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The contract involves setting up seven cracker furnaces of 1200 KTPA Dual Feed Cracker Units at HPCL Mittal Energy’s Bathinda Refinery in Punjab, India. (Deposit Photos)
India: EPC

L&T Awarded Contract from HPCL Mittal Energy

The onshore EPC contract comprises the construction of seven cracker furnaces of 1200 KTPA Dual Feed Cracker Units at HPCL’s Bathinda Refinery in Punjab. LTHE intends to make use of its modular fabrication facilities in Gujarat for the fabrication of furnace modules.

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