Articles covered in this issue:
Union Finance Budget
-Gaurish Zaoba and Kartik Lata, PwC
The expectation in business and industry, after the huge mandate the government got, was that the budget would be a path-breaking dream budget. Instead, the government has opted for an incremental push. The highlights are presented in this report
Document Management
– K Sahasranaman – Independent Consultant
Documentation is at the heart of every project execution in the chemical process industry. Large volumes of documents are created to ensure transferring relevant engineering information to all stakeholders working on the project. This article describes the various elements in document management and its importance.
Importance of Piping Materials in Process Plant EPC
– Mrinmoy Ghosh Choudhary
Proper selection of piping material, its manufacture, testing and layout are crucial for the optimal and hassle-free working of any process plant. Most of the parameters for pipelines need to be included at the earliest stage of a project as outlined in this article.
Variable Speed Drives Slash Pumps’ Life Cycle Costs
– S Raghava Chari
In this detailed article, the author elaborates on the multiple benefits that Variable Speed Drive delivers in pumping systems. It slashes life cycle costs and also enables smoother operations.
Atmospheric Water Generator
– Ramesh Kumar Soni
At a time when the entire country, though blessed with abundant rainfall and water sources, is gripped with the scarcity of water and drought, here comes an invention- Atmospheric Water Generator by a B-Tech graduate, now pursuing a Masters Course, of a device that captures moisture from the atmosphere and converts into usable water. Read on the feasibility of the device
Yesteryear Nobel Laureate
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
– Veena Patwardhan, Special Correspondent
This multidimensional Nobel laureate provided the thrust to the knowledge on reaction kinetics. His interests went beyond science into music, literature and philosophy. Read the
story of his life.
Elements Matter
Lead- The Multipurpose Element
– Veena Patwardhan, Special Correspondent
Lead is one of the few elements known from BC-thousands of years back. As much as its versatile use and application it is getting increasingly shunned these days due to the widespread awareness of its toxicity in various forms.
Chemingineering – Expanding Frontiers
– K Sahasranaman – Independent Consultant
The epoch-making Apollo XI flight which launched the first man on the moon- Neil Armstrong- was in his words ‘a giant leap for mankind’. Our columnist writes on the advances in materials
which have facilitated space flights.
