How an oil refinery works(construction-physics.com)
503 points by chmaynard | 175 comments
A Construction Physics article by Brian Potter explaining how oil refineries process crude oil into fuels and other products.
#chemical-engineering on Hacker News
2 stories tagged chemical-engineering, newest first.
A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air(blog.seas.upenn.edu)
374 points by Tycho | 167 comments
Penn Engineering blog post on a newly discovered class of nanostructured materials that passively pull water from air and release it onto surfaces without external energy.