“Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. It is a word of Greek origin made up of the root words tris (“three”), deka (“ten”), and phobia (“fear”)” (https://shmaltzandmenudo.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/famous-sayings-36-lucky-number-13/)
Thirteen years into the Desulfurization Blog, I have developed several series of posts on a number of topics. You may find one or two of them useful. So here is a list, with a link to each series. Enjoy …
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TIPCATALYSIS http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCATALYSIS
Catalysis: The Series
The overarching goal of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com) is to offer tips and tricks on how to save time in your never ending quest to stay on top of developments in your field of interest.
In that time saving vein, the following list provides easy access to each of the posts we produced on Catalysis. Not every post will interest you. But when you see one that does, you can just click the link and go right to it. That way you do not have to go through the tedious process of searching the blog to find it. Not that you would do that … who has that kind of time?
TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE
FuelsEurope
The EU has the ambitious objective to lead the world in addressing the global climate change challenge.
The EU refining industry is committed to contribute to this objective by continuing to reduce its CO2 emissions and providing the economy and citizens with low-carbon fuels and other products that society needs.
Development of a diversity of energies and energy carriers will give an economy flexibility, resilience and the possibility for the market to select the optimal solution for every sector and use. Liquid fuels, with their unique characteristics will continue to be employed in many transport fields. Therefore, the EU refining industry has an important and enduring role to play in the energy choices of the future, by providing low-carbon liquid fuels to complement low-carbon electrons, gas and hydrogen as energy carriers. Technology and collaboration across industries will facilitate the production of these low-carbon liquid fuels.
The contribution of the EU refining industry can be enhanced by the EU industrial strategy and a policy framework which will enable its transition, while allowing refineries to retain economic viability in the face of a declining domestic market demand and of an increasingly aggressive international competition.
source: https://www.fuelseurope.eu/vision-2050/
TIPVENTURECAPITAL http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPVENTURECAPITAL
The Genius of Venture Capital (Part 1): Connecting Good Ideas with Money
The Genius of Venture Capital: connecting entrepreneurs with good ideas but no money to investors with money but no ideas.
So, how does that work? It is a mysterious process.
In this series of posts, we will penetrate that mystery. We begin with two excellent articles that explain how VC’s do that voodoo that they do so well.
The two articles are rich with insights into the VC world.
Here are three that jumped out at me.
TIPBREAKTHROUGH https://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPBREAKTHROUGH
BREAKTHROUGH: How to identify promising breakthrough companies (Part 1)
This is the first post in the BREAKTHROUGH series. The THEME of the series is … How to identify promising breakthrough companies
It is an adjunct to the STARTUP series [ https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-recap.html ]. While there is some overlap, the focus of the BREAKTHROUGH series is on how to identify companies that may be worth the risk of investing them.
I use the term “investment” in a broad sense. Venture capitalists invest money directly in a chosen company, hoping for a big win.
However, there is another kind of investment … taking a chance on a company with breakthrough but unproven technology to solve a problem your company is trying to address. That is a risk that is similar to, but different than, the risk taken by venture capitalists.
Caveat … I am not an expert on risk assessment. However, I am an expert in online research. The purpose of this series is to help you make more efficient use of online resources to achieve your objectives.
So, how do you identify companies with breakthrough technology? Well, if you are not a venture capitalist, whose job it is to identify such companies, it might be useful to see how venture capitalists go about this critical task.
TIPSTARTALAB http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALAB
How to design a lab: Part 1 of a series of posts
“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.” -- Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
Designing a laboratory is a seriously complex task. If you have never designed one, how do you even start?
One place to begin is reading what experts in the field have written. And a possible first step on the path to discovering what experts have written could be an Amazon.com search.
TIP: On the Amazon.com Web, select the Book department. Then enter the following Amazon.com search string: laboratory design
TIPSTARTALIBRARY http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALIBRARY
Seriously? A Series of Tips on Setting Up a Research Library (Part 1)
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” -- Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
Individual researchers create their own personal libraries of technical literature. This can work well for small research organizations with just three or four researchers. Larger organizations need a more formal structure to support their research efforts.
This is the first in a series of posts designed to help you create a resource base which can help your researchers make more productive use of their valuable time.
We’ll begin by focusing on commercial databases. To be honest, the first step should involve strategic planning, but since most people like to cut to the chase, the chase is where we’ll begin. The tedious stuff will come later.
TIPCASESTUDY http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCASESTUDY
TIAX LLC
Searching for ExxonMobil patents, I ran across one with a co-assignee named TIAX LLC (see below). This caught my eye. When a giant like ExxonMobil teams with a small firm like TIAX, it makes me want to learn more.
This post is the first of a series. Besides exploring TIAX LLC, the series provide a case study on how to glean useful information about any small company of interest.
TIPLITERATURESEARCH http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPLITERATURESEARCH
Whaddya Know? Literature Search Method Case Study
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, We don’t know what we don’t know.
That’s true. Unfortunate, but true.
Here’s another paraphrase from a great sage known as Anonymous … Sometimes, we don’t know what we DO know.
And that is the theme of this post … i.e., how do we know what we DO know?
A recent study on the integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Additive Manufacturing (AM) illustrates the point.
TIPPATENT http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT
TIPS & TRICKS FOR PATENT SEARCHING – TABLE OF CONTENTS
As easy as it is to search patents online these days, there are nuances to the process. Over the past year or so, we at the Desulfurization Blog (http://desulf.blogspot.com) have posted tips and tricks that can help you improve your effectiveness in a patent search.
For your convenience, we have compiled a TOC-Table of Contents of these posts.
TIP: Click http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT to visit ALL the patent searching tips that have appeared (and will continue to appear) in the Desulfurization Blog.
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.
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