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About admin

I own and run smartprocessdesign.com

Cost Estimation Titles in the Store

Posted on 2012/09/20 by admin

After a little downtime we are back! I have added a new category, Cost Estimation, to our store of suggested books. The collection of books by John Page, also called “Page and Nation” by some, are a great way to … Continue reading →

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“Learning” Spanish in 10 seconds

Posted on 2012/05/28 by admin

With the growing opportunities in Latin America, I’ve found myself having to deal with the occasional document in Spanish, despite never having taken so much as a high school class in Español. (I ended up with another language instead.) In … Continue reading →

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Engineering & Business Magazine Reviews

Posted on 2012/02/18 by admin

I get a lot of work-related magazines across my desk, and definitely have my preferences in what I find useful as a process engineer & consultant. I thought I would share my narrow, heavily biased opinions, because maybe it will … Continue reading →

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Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing: Favored book and website

Posted on 2012/01/22 by admin

Last year my work took my to a small group specialized in engineering support for sulfuric acid plants, mainly those helping the mining industry have plants on hand for processing ore. You know H2So4, right? Sitting in the office of … Continue reading →

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Overspilling (Multi-Page) Datasheets in Aspen Basic Engineering

Posted on 2012/01/09 by admin

An important part of using Apsen Basic Engineering (Zyqad) is having properly set up equipment and instrumentation datasheets, that can read key information from your project database and drop it into a customized datasheet that your clients and customers can … Continue reading →

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