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US Energy Policy: What Happened to Advanced Biofuels?

Posted in Alternative Energy, Regulatory Compliance on Friday, January 27th, 2012. One comment so far
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Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team highlights his impressions from this week’s U.S. State of the Union address as it applies to alternative energy: Being that it’s State of the Union time, I thought it would be curious to reflect on the status of the energy policy in the US. During President [...]

ASTM E2500-Early, Targeted Testing Leads to Faster Implementations

Posted in Life Sciences, Regulatory Compliance on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012. No comments yet
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Last week, I highlighted Emerson’s Heather Schwalje thoughts on Continuous Process Verification per U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines. In a comment, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine senior editor, Paul Thomas, highlighted a great article, A Practical Roadmap to Pharmaceutical Process Validation for Pharmaceutical and Biotech manufacturers. I saw another great analysis piece by Heather on [...]

How Countries Can Boost Their Economies through Mining

Posted in Metals, Mining, Minerals, Regulatory Compliance on Monday, November 7th, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Eric Kuebler, a metals & mining industry manager for the Fisher Valve team, shares his thoughts on how mining can boost a country’s economic growth. Northern Quebec is a largely untouched wilderness mainly consisting of the northern arctic regions of Quebec. However, this region is known to hold mineral resources, woodlands and potential hydroelectric [...]

Addressing the Challenges of the Renewable Fuel Standards Regulations

Posted in Refining, Regulatory Compliance on Thursday, July 28th, 2011. No comments yet
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U.S. refiners have been changing the way they make the fuels we use every day as a result of federal regulations. Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale and Chris Connor will present at the 2011 Emerson Exchange on the Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2). These regulations became the law of the land with the Energy Independence and Security [...]

Ethanol in the Budget Spotlight

Posted in Alternative Energy, Regulatory Compliance on Friday, June 24th, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Alan Novak, who leads the alternative energy industry team, highlights some of the recent happenings with regard to U.S. federal budget discussions and their impact on the ethanol production industry: The pending expiration of a long-standing ethanol support mechanism, the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), presents a significant challenge for the U.S. ethanol [...]

Confusing Personal and Process Safety?

Posted in Regulatory Compliance, Safety on Thursday, May 26th, 2011. 2 comments so far
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Over at the Process Safety Management (1000+) LinkedIn group is a provocative question, Personal Safety & Process Safety – does management really confuse the two? Do engineers confuse them? The thread began a month ago and has 77 responses and 4 “likes” to date. The person who began the thread points to recent accidents where [...]

Greenhouse Gas Monitoring In, Energy Efficiency Out

Posted in Energy Management, Industrial Energy, Regulatory Compliance on Friday, May 20th, 2011. One comment so far
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Over at ControlGlobal.com’s Sound Off! Editors’ Blog is a post, Greenhouse Gases– There’s a Pony in There Somewhere! #carbondioxide #control #pauto #globalwarming #ruminants. The post by Control magazine Editor in Chief Walt Boyes highlights Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale‘s recent ISA Will-DuPage Section presentation on greenhouse gas reporting programs as mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]

Process Safety Lessons Learned

Posted in Regulatory Compliance, Safety on Friday, March 11th, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Mike Boudreaux shares some thoughts on a recent ControlGlobal.com article on process manufacturing accidents: Process safety has been a popular topic these days. Unfortunately, it has hit mainstream press because of high profile safety incidents such as last year’s Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico. On a positive note, process safety isn’t [...]

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New Middle East Flow Calibration Center

Posted in Measurement, Regulatory Compliance on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011. No comments yet
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Over the last few years, the Middle East region has greatly expanded its chemical, petrochemical, refining, and other process manufacturing capacities. ArabianBusiness.com summed it up: The rapidly expanding downstream sector in the Middle East has led technology providers to continuously look at ways to improve operating efficiencies and product qualities, and in many cases processing [...]

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Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules and Increasing Energy Efficiency

Posted in Process Optimization, Regulatory Compliance on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011. No comments yet
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A little more than one year ago, I highlighted how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Rules were beginning to impact U.S. process manufacturers. The post, EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rules and Flow Measurement shared ways measurement devices could assist in this reporting. I caught up with Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale who [...]

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