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Sean Moran

England
As seen in: Process Industry Informer, Medium, Elsevier, Before It's News, The Bakersfield Californian, Chemical Engineering
Covers:  Chemical engineering, environment, water and related issues, especially to do with higher education
Doesn't Cover: Cookery, Sports, Politics

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Sean Moran’s Biography

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I'm a UK based environmental/chemical engineer, and that's what I write about. I'm not an Aussie cook, an Irish hurling journo, a US conservative commentator or indeed that guy who was in "Grease".

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Introduction To Sean Moran

Introduction To Sean Moran

I’ve been asked to write a regular column for PII, so I suppose I won't just launch into it. Let's start with…

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What's Wrong With Academia Part 6: "Markers of Esteem" and the Tyranny of Opinion

What's Wrong With Academia Part 6: "Markers of Esteem" and the Tyranny of Opinion

When I started my first full-time job as an academic, I was asked to fill out a load of forms so that the uni…

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Pump Sizing: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

Pump Sizing: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

When I left university, I found that I needed additional information to turn my theoretical knowledge of flui…

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Process Plant Layout - Becoming a Lost Art? - Chemical Engineering

Process Plant Layout - Becoming a Lost Art? - Chemical Engineering

The majority of process plant accidents involved a design error, and the most common type of design error lea…

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Search Results for "last word "

Search Results for "last word "

Many engineering educators rightly balk at the prospect of an engineering program sponsored by or substantive…

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Why Every Developer Needs Their Own Internal KL Divergence

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By Sean Moran, Seán Moran
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Balancing Code and Cognition: The Hidden KL Divergence of AI Tools I’ve been using AI coding and writing tools extensively over the past year, both the GPT (4o and 5) series, Windsurf (in VSCode) and Claude. These tools are undoubtedly very powerful, accelerating productivity and saving time on tasks that only a few years ago were impossible for computers to achieve (some good examples are producing workable code and coherent essay writing).
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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin to Rescind ‘Holy Grail of the Climate Change Religion’ That Led to $1 Trillion in Regulations | EU | Before It's News

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By Sean Moran, Seán Moran
| Before It's News
is a community of individuals who report on what’s going on around them, from all around the world.Anyone can join Anyone can contribute.Anyone can become informed about their world. Before It’s News® is a community of individuals who report on what’s going on around them, from all around the world. Anyone can join. Anyone can contribute. Anyone can become informed about their world. "United We Stand" Click Here To Create Your Personal Citizen Journalist Account Today, Be Sure To Invite Your Friends.
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January 2023 Bookshelf: Recently Published Books for the CPI - Chemical Engineering

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By Scott Jenkins Verified, Sean Moran
| Chemical Engineering Verified
The following lists recently published books of relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): The Other Side of Safety: Moving from Results-Based to Behavior-Based. By Robert Palmer, CRC Press, 2023, 154 pages, $71.96. A New Approach to HAZOP of Complex Chemical Processes. By Fabienne-Fariba Salimi, Ali Akbar Safavi, Leonhard Urbas and Frederic Salimi, Elsevier Press, 2023, 262 pages, $127.50.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, that's how old I am

How is social media changing news?

For the worse

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Hard to know, no-one ever pitched me