Emerging Technologies
The PIP Emerging Technologies Function Team develops engineering practices for new and rapidly evolving technologies and industries—setting the industry standards around emerging technologies.
PIP Emerging Technologies Function Team is a forum for industry experts to identify areas where established engineering practices do not yet exist or where existing practices need to evolve to address new applications.
Focus areas include Digital, Automation & AI Systems; Electrification & Power Transition; Decarbonization & Energy Transition; Circular Economy & Waste-to-Value; Advanced Materials & Manufacturing; Modularization, Pilot Scale-Up & Technology Readiness (TRL); and more.
Why PIP Emerging Technologies Practices?
Emerging technologies are reshaping process-industry facilities, from industrial AI, digital twins, and advanced automation to electrification, decarbonization, circular-economy systems, and new materials. These rapidly evolving applications can create engineering requirements that established practices do not yet address.
PIP Emerging Technologies Practices fill these gaps by bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise to identify new requirements, adapt existing guidance, and develop practical, industry-driven approaches for the design, implementation, scale-up, and commercialization of emerging technologies.
Examples of Emerging Technologies
- Digital, Automation & AI Systems: Digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital twins, advanced automation, predictive analytics, autonomous systems, advanced sensing, data integration, and cybersecurity.
- Electrification & Power Transition: Industrial electrification, electric process equipment, electrolyzers, energy storage, renewable power integration, grid interaction, and electrical infrastructure supporting emerging process technologies.
- Decarbonization & Energy Transition: Hydrogen production, processing, transportation and storage; carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS); CO₂ transportation and storage; ammonia; low-carbon fuels; carbon management; and technologies supporting industrial decarbonization and the energy transition.
- Circular Economy & Waste-to-Value: Advanced recycling, pyrolysis, gasification, waste-to-fuels, biomass and biogenic feedstocks, resource recovery, and technologies that convert waste and residual materials into useful products.
- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing: Additive manufacturing, advanced alloys, composites, coatings, automated manufacturing, advanced inspection methods, and qualification of new materials and manufacturing technologies.
- Modularization, Pilot Scale-Up & Technology Readiness (TRL): Modular process systems, pilot and demonstration facilities, Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), first-of-a-kind projects, technology scale-up, and the transition from pilot and demonstration projects to commercial deployment.
Join the Team Bringing New Technology
Up to Standards
Join the function team that identifies where emerging technologies create new engineering requirements or gaps in existing guidance—from evaluating existing standards to identifying opportunities for new or updated PIP practices, developing common engineering approaches, and capturing lessons learned from early commercial projects.