Recently added articles from Chemical Engineering Progress:

One is Ag and the Other's Au

Jun 01, 2008; Mascone, Cynthia ... When I was a Girl Scout, we sang a song called "Make New Friends" that went like this: Make new friends But keep the old One is silver And the other's gold. As children, we thought of friends as people, or perhaps a pet or an imaginary companion. As adult ...

Letters

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... So Hard to Choose ... To the Editor: I was pleased to see the founding of the Environmental Division in 1970 included on the list "AIChE Centennial Celebration: Forty Mileposts of Professional and Institute Progress," which appeared in the April 2008 issue (pp. 62-63). The most ...

Nanosensors: Evolution, not Revolution ... Yet

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... Promising nanotechnology-enabled sensors, monitoring devices and analytical instruments continue to advance toward commercialization for diverse industrial, environmental, medical and military applications - but hurdles remain. Although they are invisible to the naked eye, engineered ...

AIChE JOURNAL Highlight: Exploiting the Diversity of Zeolite Catalysts

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... The last decade has produced important progress in our understanding of catalytic reactions in zeolite materials. In many cases, we know with confidence the chemical bonds that form and break as reactants are converted into products, writes Raul Lobo, professor of chemical engineering at the ...

Nalco Offers Onsite Legionella Test

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... SAFETY Nalco Co. has announced its new Risk Management Solutions for Cooling Water program, which builds on enhancing the efficiency of cooling water systems by adding best practices for assessing, testing, remediating and reducing risks associated with Legionella. (A related article, ...

Room Temperature is Warm Enough: Power from Formic Acid

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... A team at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis in Rostock, Germany, has succeeded in the controlled extraction of hydrogen from formic acid - without the need for high-temperature reforming usually involved in other hydrogen-generation systems. This hydrogen can be introduced directly into fuel ...

Low-Cost Carbon Filter Process Captures CO2 and Mercury from Coal Fluegas

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... ENVIRONMENTAL A research team at the Univ. of Wyoming's Soft Material Laboratory has developed a simple, low-cost adsorption process, referred to as Carbon Filter Process, which can capture CO2 and mercury from fluegas generated by coalfired power plants. CO2 and other pollutants ...

Self-Assembling Crystals Could Produce Better Optical Materials

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... MATERIALS Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could allow optical devices to be made less expensively than conventional processes, which require complex etching and other techniques common in the semiconductor industry. The method, developed at ...

Environmental Fate of Nanoparticles Depends on the Water Carrying Them

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... NANOTECHNOLOGY The fate of carbon-based nanoparticles spilled into groundwater - and the ability of municipal filtration systems to remove the nanoparticles from drinking water - depend on subtle differences in the solution properties of the water carrying the particles, a new study has ...

"Super Yeasts" Produce More Protein than Previously Possible

Jun 01, 2008; Shelley, Suzanne ... BIOTECHNOLOGY Scientists at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, CA) report that they have developed a new kind of genetically modified yeast cell that produces complex proteins in quantities up to 300 times more than those possible in the past. These "super yeasts" could ...

EPA Finalizes Refinery Rules

Jun 01, 2008; Shirley, William A ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is amending the current Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries (40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 60, Subpart J), and is finalizing other performance standards (40 CFR, Part 60, Subpart Ja) for new, modified or reconstructed process ...

PLANTS AND PROJECTS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... OxyChem Eliminates Mercury From Caustic Potash Production Taft, LA-based Occidental Chemical Corp. (OxyChem; www.oxy.com/ oxychem/chemicals.htm), the nation's largest manufacturer of chlorine and caustic soda, has become the only mercury-free producer of caustic potash in North America ....

JOINT VENTURES AND ALLIANCES

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... BP, Santelis Vale, and Maeda to Invest in Brazil Biofuels Refinery Energy major BP will take a 50% stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA (www .tropicalbioenergia.com.br), a 155-million gal/yr ethanol refinery being constructed in Edéia, Goias State, Brazil, by the Brazilian companies Santelisa ...

CHEM ECONOMICS

Jun 01, 2008; Swift, T Kevin ... Oil Demand From Emerging Nations Helps Fuel Price Increases With the current economic difficulties in the U.S., much attention has been placed on the role of the housing downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and the associated credit crunch. Despite a fivefold increase since 2000, the ...

Posting on an Internet Server May Affect Your Patent Rights

Jun 01, 2008; Heines, M Henry ... The pressure in academia and research institutions to "publish or perish" may tempt some researchers to publish first and seek patent coverage later. United States patent law accommodates this urge by offering a grace period of one year after the first publication of an invention in which to ...

Election News

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... To enable members to make informed selections, the candidates have provided overviews of their experience, as well as their plans for future programs and directions for the Institute. These messages are in each candidate's own worrjs. Director candidate statements will appear in the July issue ...

Arnold Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Frances H. Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy recognized Arnold for integrating molecular biology, genetics, and bioengineering into industry, including research ...

Topsøe Awarded Winthrop-Sears Medal by The Chemists' Club of New York

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Haldor Topsøe, founder of the company that bears his name, has received The Chemists' Club of New York's Winthrop-Sears Medal for 2008. The medal was presented at a May 15 ceremony at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF; www.chemheritage.org) in Philadelphia, PA. during the CHF's seventh ...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Recognizes AIChE Members

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, has announced its class of new members for 2008. Among the 212 new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are a Nobel laureate, a Pulitzer Prize ...

AIChE Student Members Receive Tau Beta Pi Fellowships

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Fellowship Board of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, has selected 35 engineering students for graduate fellowships in 2008-09. Among the honorees are tour AIChE student members. Boris D. Chemomordik, a chemical engineering student at the Univ. of Louisville, has ...