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The June issue’s Editor’s Choice article is an open access article and the latest addition to the Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Special Series: “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: X-ray fluorescence—XRF” by Mario Ferreiro González, Nooshin Saadatkhah, and Gregory S. Patience from Polytechnique Montréal. In this article, the authors provide a thorough discussion of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and its diverse applications and look at the research themes of articles being published that mention XRF.
The second issue highlight is another special series article, this time from CJCE’s Process Safety Special Series. In this article, “A comparative bibliometric study of the transport risk considerations of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas”, authors Mitchell Huffman, Victoria Hutchison, Sreenivasan Ranganathan, Gregory Noll, Christina Baxter, Michael Hildebrand, and Qingsheng Wang compare the safety considerations for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) transport via literature review, compare the chemical and physical properties of LNG and LPG, and discuss available risk analyses.
The third issue highlight from the June issue is another open access article, “Effective inhibition of crystal growth during wax deposition using CTAB-grafted faujasite nanoparticles” by Tamer Al-Shboul, Afif Hethnawi, Farad Sagala, and Nashaat N. Nassar from the University of Calgary. In this article, the authors, “developed cetrimonium bromide (CTAB)-grafted faujasite nanoparticles (C-g-F) as wax inhibitors for the deposits that were formed from a model oil system consisting of 5 wt.% paraffin wax in toluene.” The results demonstrate that “C-g-F, due to their novel surface features, could suppress the unordered wax crystals from networking, resulting in uniform spherical-like wax aggregates. Hence, the application of tiny concentrations of C-g-F (10 to 300 ppm) outperformed stand-alone surfactants in nucleating the wax crystals.”
In the final featured article of this issue, “Solvent-free quantification and composition/source analysis of total oil and grease in cooling water”, authors Kimberly Wong, Matthew Ripmeester, Daniel Thacker, and David A. Duford from the Syncrude Edmonton Research Centre measure “Total oil and grease (TOG) in water” in “industrial process waters to determine the concentration of petroleum products present” and develop “a solvent-free TOG method using ClearShot extractors and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)… for the quantification of bitumen derived hydrocarbon analytes in water.” Be sure to read this open access article!
Have you checked out CJCE’s latest virtual issue yet? If not, be sure to do so soon while it is free-to-read! In this virtual issue, Resonating Research: Editors’ Picks, several CJCE Associate Editors have selected top articles published in CJCE in 2023/2024. These articles have been selected for presenting innovative research addressing critical issues and solutions for current challenges; for communicating novel approaches and applications of principles and methods; and for comprising research that is versatile and has broad applications.
A number of comprehensive review articles have also been selected as they will serve as valuable reference guides or databases for early career and established chemical engineers alike.
Explore this virtual issue to gain insight into the latest research that CJCE Associate Editors believe will have a resonating effect on the chemical engineering field. Look out for another upcoming virtual issue with selections from more of CJCE’s Associate Editors.