The use of intensified equipment, heavily advocated by academia, encounters several hurdles to break through in the chemical industry. This has reasons, such as high capital expenditures and associated long depreciation times, strong focus on robustness/availability, preferably 8000 h per year, or fact that benefits are only incremental. Next all companies anxious be first demonstrate new techn...

The purpose of this article is twofold. The first is to point out and correct several misconceptions about the putative WISHE mechanism of tropical cyclone intensification that currently are being taught to atmospheric science students, to tropical weather forecasters, and to laypeople who seek to understand how tropical cyclones intensify. The mechanism relates to the simplest problem of an in...