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New article in CEP Magazine: Applying Scaling Laws in Process Engineering

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

CapEx: It matters how you slice it.

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

Cyclotron Road & Techonomics: Cost modeling for science entrepreneurs

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

Upcoming AIChE webinar

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

New article from Burk Engineering in CEP Magazine

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

Pro Tip: Searchable Excel Stream Tables with VBA

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

AIChE ChEnected guest blog: 'What's the most important question for your R&D breakthroug

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

Using Monte Carlo Analysis in Technology Development: Quantifying risk due to uncertainty

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

Cognitive bias & technology development

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

Investing in new chemical technologies

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...

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