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About admin

I own and run smartprocessdesign.com

Recalled to life

The website was down Dec. 6th and 7th. I was updating Introduction to Pressure Relief Valves Part 3 and ran into a nasty WordPress bug that deleted all of the articles and locked me out of writing anything new. I … Continue reading

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Hysys Tips and Tricks for Logical Units and Reactors

I stumbled upon this classroom course one day, while trying to do something particularly difficult in Aspentech’s Hysys. I learned a lot. The intricacies of the balance function, the different kinds of reactions, how to leverage the spreadsheet operation. If … Continue reading

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Help with Graduate School Thesis & Degree

Need help developing your thesis for an engineering, science, or business graduate degree? Or perhaps you want to know what you’re getting into before you sign on for grad school? Maybe you’re researching engineering degrees online and found this article? … Continue reading

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Skills, process descriptions, and solved problems at the Enggcyclopedia

An excellent resource on process, instrumentation, and piping engineering: the Engineering Design Encyclopedia. Whether you’re looking for a sample heat exchanger calculation, just learning what the term flow meter means, or trying to discover how a sulfur recovery unit works, … Continue reading

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Management is priorities

A lot of what is written about management is pure fluff. But a few things are keepers, and one day I stumbled across something worth putting in “the file.” A successful manager at Microsoft shares a few tips for success, … Continue reading

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