Recently added articles from Chemical Engineering Progress:
Education Reform: "Just Do It"
Feb 01, 2009; ... Academia and industry both have important roles to play in educating future ChEs. Most academics have read various reports about the state of engineering education, the need to reform it, and recommendations on how to do so. The panels and authors are many, diverse, distinguished, ...
Designing the New Global Chemical Engineer
Feb 01, 2009; ... Universities around the world are tackling different pieces of the teaching puzzle to transform students into ideal chemical engineers. Teaching the principles of chemical engineering to produce the ultimate product - the wellrounded chemical engineer - is one of the most innovative and ...
Just Do It
Feb 01, 2009; ... Twenty years ago last August, Nike's advertising slogan "Just Do It" hit the airwaves. Before long, that simple three-word phrase was inspiring athletes and non-athletes alike. It won numerous awards and recognitions - it was inducted into the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame, and ranked second ...
AIChE JOURNAL Highlight: Producing Hydrogen Using Solar-Thermal Energy
Feb 01, 2009; ... One of the largest challenges facing society in this century is finding energy sources that meet escalating demand and that are sustainable, widely producible and not detrimental to the global environment. One fuel that has received a great deal of attention over the past decade is hydrogen, ...
Modified E. coli Produce Higher-Density Biofuels
Feb 01, 2009; ... ENERGY Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified Escherichia coli to produce unusually long alcohols essential in the creation of biofuels. "This research is significant for two reasons," says James Liao, UCLA ...
Decontamination Material Helps To Wipe Out Terrorism
Feb 01, 2009; ... MATERIALS Researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TTEHH) at Texas Tech Univ. have developed a new type of decontamination wipe that cleans up chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals. Seshadri Ramkumar, of Texas Tech, and other scientists with the Admiral Elmo ...
Nontoxic Clean-Up of Nanomaterials
Feb 01, 2009; ... NANOTECHNOLOGY Researchers at the Univ. of Pittsburgh have devised the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegrading carbon nanotubes - one-atom-thick rolls of graphite that are 1/100,000th the size of a human hair, yet stronger than steel, and excellent conductors of electricity and ...
Electric Smart Yarn Detects Blood
Feb 01, 2009; ... Engineers at the Univ. of Michigan have created a carbon-nanotube-coated "smart yarn" that conducts electricity and could be woven into soft fabrics to detect blood and monitor health. Such clothing could be useful in high-risk professions to send a distress signal to a central command post when ...
Nanotubes Patrol Cancer Agents in Living Cells
Feb 01, 2009; ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology (?GG) engineers have developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. Such sensors could be used to monitor chemotherapy drugs, many of which are very powerful DNA disrupters and can ...
Eastman, SK Chemicals Team for Cellulose Acetate Tow Production
Feb 01, 2009; ... JOINT VENTURES AND ALLIANCES Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, TN; www.eastman.com) and SK Chemicals Co. of Seoul, South Korea, will form a new entity - Eastman Fibers Korea Ltd. - to construct a cellulose acetate tow manufacturing facility in Korea. Under the agreement, Eastman will hold ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb, ZymoGenetics Team on Hepatitis C Therapy
Feb 01, 2009; ... Global pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ; www.bms.com) and ZymoGenetics, Inc. (Seattle, WA; www.zymogenetics. com) - a creator of novel protein drugs - will collaborate on PEGInterferon lambda, a novel type 3 interferon currently in Phase Ib development for the treatment ...
Kuwait Abandons Joint Venture Agreement With Dow
Feb 01, 2009; ... Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) has withdrawn from a planned $17.4-billion joint venture between Kuwait's Petrochemical Industries Co. (PCI) and Dow Chemical. The announcement came only days before the high-stakes alliance's planned January 1, 2009, launch date. Under the terms of the ...
GTI, CrystaTech Partner on Clean Energy Technology
Feb 01, 2009; ... Environmental and energy research organization Gas Technology Institute (GTI; www.gastechnology.org) and CrystaTech (Austin, TX; www. crystatech.com) have entered into a five-year agreement for the develop- ment of several new clean energy technologies. The work will take place at GTTs R&D ...
DOE Approves Construction of NSLS-II Project at Brookhaven
Feb 01, 2009; ... PLANTS AND PROJECTS To advance its science mission that focuses on critical national challenges, the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) has approved the construction of the stateof-the-art National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY; ...
EH&S Performance a Bright Spot for Chemistry Business
Feb 01, 2009; ... CHEM ECONOMICS Many chemical engineers are involved in environmen tal, health and safety (EH&S) issues. An annual survey of American Chemistry Council (ACC) members shows that spending on EH&S programs and projects by basic chemical and specialty chemical producers in the U.S ....
Air Liquide Moves to Second Stage of Bioliq SynFuel Process
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lurgi (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), a subsidiary of Air Liquide Group, will build a second-generation biofuel plant at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, in a joint project with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. The pilot plant will demonstrate the viability of the three-stage ...
AeonClad Brings Coatings Technology to Medical Market
Feb 01, 2009; ... AeonClad Coatings LLC (Austin, TX; www.aeonclad.com) has launched a new subsidiary, AeonClad Biomedical LLC, which will focus on biomedical applications of the company's AeonCoat technology. AeonCoat is a dry coating technology mat offers a single-step, solvent-free process for producing ...
CF Industries Proposes Acquisition of Terra for New Fertilizer Business
Feb 01, 2009; ... MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Deerfield, IL-based CF Industries, Inc. (CF; www.cfindustries.com) has made an unsolicited bid of $2.1 billion to acquire Terra Industries Inc. (Sioux City, IA; www.terraindustries.com), a supplier of nitrogen products to the agricultural, industrial and ...
Leadership Development Conference Will Bring Motivation and Management Skills to AIChE Volunteers
Feb 01, 2009; ... AIChE relies on well-informed and motivated member volunteers to lead the Institute's many activity groups - local sections, committees, technical divisions and forums - and to represent the Institute to members on the grass-roots level. One opportunity to gain the knowledge and management ...
Biotech Pioneer Gaden Honored for Bringing Medicine to the Masses
Feb 01, 2009; ... Elmer L. Gaden, Jr., of Charlottesville, VA, a retired Univ. of Virginia chemical engineering professor and an AIChE Fellow, has won the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2009 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize. Often considered the "father of biochemical engineering," Gaden is being ...