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I wrote this CEP article after reading Geoffrey West's fascinating book 'Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities...

Confusion about capital cost categories can cause problems in early stage cost modeling.

Cyclotron Road is a technology incubator embedded at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. It’s a home for innovators whose ideas are too...

AIChE approached me with the idea of producing a one-hour live webinar related to my recent article for Chemical Engineer Progress on...

Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP) is the flagship publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the world's leading...

Note: This article was originally published in AIChE's ChEnected blog. The astute process engineer loves building stream tables in Excel....

I wrote this article as a guest blogger for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers blog, ChEnected. Check out the original and...

“It is an inescapable fact that estimates of resource requirements for future systems are beset with uncertainty. The question is not...

“In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant cognitive bias. Because optimistic bias...

​Investing in a new chemical technology is different than, for example, investing in a new mobile app. It’s not like you can lock a bunch...