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The Chemical Processing Distilled podcast extracts essential elements to serve engineers designing and operating plants in the chemical industry.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Courts, Settlements and Capacity Bets (opens the original)
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In September's Distilled News, a federal appeals court strikes down the EPA's methylene chloride ban, three chemical makers agree to pay $455 million over PFAS, and BASF and Kemira look at new production.
Reverse Osmosis: When It's Time to Ditch the Softener (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Chemical Processing Distilled Podcast, Brad Buecker of SAMCO Technologies joins editor-in-chief Traci Purdum to dig deeper into reverse osmosis for boiler makeup water. Buecker contrasts RO with sodium softening, explaining how RO removes up to 99% of dissolved ions, cutting corrosion, scaling and blowdown compared to softening alone. He stresses that raw water quality and pretreatment reliability — not snapshot testing — determine RO success and warns against microbiologi
A Chemical Engineer's Guide to Leading (opens the original)
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An Eastman Chemical veteran-turned-leadership coach explains why technical excellence doesn't translate to leadership skill — and how organizations can close the "broken rung" that pushes women out of the pipeline right after their first promotion.
U.S. Chemical Makers Ride Iran War's Oil-Gas Price Gap (opens the original)
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ICIS's Al Greenwood explains why ethane-fed commodity producers are cashing in while specialty chemical makers struggle to pass on higher costs. Read the full article.
Distilled News: CSB Ties Clairton Blast to Valve Procedure, Argonne Advances Lithium Extraction, DOE Funds Minerals Workforce (opens the original)
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This month, we cover the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's final report on the fatal Aug. 11 explosion at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works, Argonne National Laboratory's progress on extracting lithium and other critical minerals from oilfield wastewater, and a new $100 million DOE initiative to train the next generation of critical-minerals workers.
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