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    Give current boss opportunity to match better job offer or just quit?

    There's always a lot of opinions on this sort of situation and I guess you have to weigh up your relationship with your manager. I recently changed jobs myself. However I actually indicated to my manager I had applied for another job (before recieving my letter of offer even) as I felt that we...
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    heat recovery

    have you considered getting the heat exchanger pulled down in scheduled maintanance and inspected for fouling? I used to run a distillery process where we would pull the condensers down every year and inspect them (for fouling and corrosion) It does seem odd that the outlet temperature has...
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    Recovery of Ethanol from NaCl/NO3/Water mix

    Freezing the solution will be difficult as there's no differentiating layer between the water fraction and the ethanol, it will behave as a single phase and will have a freezing point determined by the ethanol solution. I think you'll find distillation may be the best option (and probably the...

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