Plastics Recycling and Microplastics: Checking the Math
As perhaps just a hazard of my profession, any time an article comes out on the merits (or lack of) of recycling and plastic waste in general, people send it...
Recent Posts
Engineering a Cup of Coffee Part Two: Espresso
In a previous post I thought about how one might approach making coffee, in a French press, as a chemical engineering problem. The obvious next step is to lo...
Estimating the impact of fugitive hydrogen
As Alberta continues down it’s path to the hydrogen economy, with more industrial facilities transitioning to hydrogen as a fuel, and more producers of hydro...
Impossible bowling
While bowling, this week, an interesting question came up: is it possible to get every score from 1 to 450 in a game of five pin bowling? Or, to flip it arou...
Messing around with model parameters
Recently I added some alternative correlations to GasDispersion.jl, the julia package I put together for basic chemical release modeling, and I thought it wo...