Chemical Engineering Progress back issues from April 2008:
Legionella: An Invisible Risk
Apr 01, 2008; ... Ignoring this hidden hazard can put both the public and companies that operate cooling towers at risk. More than 30 years after the first known outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, U.S. industry is stepping up its efforts to address the risks posed by Legionella bacteria in cooling water ...
The Editorial Twilight Zone
Apr 01, 2008; ... Late last year, contributing editor Suzanne Shelley proposed writing a news story on dust explosions. "I've been gathering a lot of information on this topic, and I think it would make a good article," she said - not to mention the fact that we should be able to get some dramatic photos to ...
EPA Tightens Smog Standards
Apr 01, 2008; ... ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently revised the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone, the primary component of smog. The new primary 8-h standard, which is set at a level designed to protect the public health, including the ...
GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING
Apr 01, 2008; ... Twentieth-century engineering enabled life as we know it. The National Academy of Engineering looks at what is needed in the future. It may be impossible for people living in industrial nations to reflect on the 20th century without considering the staggering innovations brought about by ...
Global Efforts Aim to Empower Women Engineers
Apr 01, 2008; ... The lack of participation of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields has become a hot topic in scientific, engineering and sociological literature. This month's AIChE Journal explores the issue in "Global Efforts for Local Empowerment of Women Engineers," by ...
Aluminum-Rich Alloy Produces Hydrogen On Demand
Apr 01, 2008; ... MATERIALS Purdue Univ. engineers have developed a new aluminumrich alloy that produces hydrogen by splitting water and is economically competitive with conventional fuels for transportation and power generation. "We now have an economically viable process for producing hydrogen ...
Liquid Exposure Makes Hard Plastic Soft
Apr 01, 2008; ... A new approach for developing polymer nanocomposites that alter their mechanical properties when exposed to certain chemical stimuli was developed by a team of researchers from the departments of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the case School of Engineering ...
Reusable Material Facilitates Carbon Capture
Apr 01, 2008; ... ENVIRONMENTAL Researchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gas. Made by a simple one-step chemical process, the new material, known as hyperbranched ...
AIChE 2009 Election: Exercise Your Right to Vote
Apr 01, 2008; ... AIChE's Nominating Committee has announced the slate of candidates for the officer and director positions for 2009. In the coming months, CEP will publish profiles of all the candidates that describe their qualifications and platforms. Profiles of president-elect candidates will appear in the ...
Society for Biological Engineering Provides a Home for Both New and Established Members
Apr 01, 2008; ... AIChE's Society tor Biological Engineering (SBE) - a technical community devoted to advancing the integration of biology and engineering - recently conducted the First International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering, another in a series of successful SBE conferences and project launches. The ...
Koros Awarded Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology Prize
Apr 01, 2008; ... AIChE Member William J. Koros, a professor and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently received the 2008 Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology. The Michaels Award, sponsored by the North American ...
SAChE Opens Certificate Program to Undergraduates
Apr 01, 2008; ... Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SAChE; http://sache.org) - a collaboration between AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and engineering schools has launched a certification program for undergraduate student members of AIChE who demonstrate proficiency in SAChE process ...
Chen to Receive Award for Excellence in Catalysis
Apr 01, 2008; ... Jingguang G. Chen, an AIChE Member and director of the Univ. of Delaware's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, has won the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis, presented by the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. He is being recognized for his work in understanding ...
Murphy to Receive Safety and Health Division's Walton/Miller Award
Apr 01, 2008; ... John F. Murphy, a process safety consultant based in Punta Gorda, FL, is the recipient of the AIChE Safety and Health Division's 2008 Norton H. Walton/Russell L. Miller Award. The Award recognizes outstanding chemical engineering contributions and achievements in the areas of loss prevention, ...
Cobb Appointed Acting Director of Energy Institute
Apr 01, 2008; ... James T. Cobb, Jr., an associate professor emeritus at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, has been appointed acting director of the Univ. of Pittsburgh at Bradford's new Energy Institute. Cobb will develop the Institute, which is being set up to foster the study of both traditional fossil-fuel ...
Smolke is Sloan Research Fellow
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named Christina D. Smolke, an AIChE Member and assistant professor of chemical engineering at the California Institute of Tech-nology, a Sloan Research Fellow. Smolke is among 118 faculty members from 64 colleges and universities in North America who were ...
Ernest F. Johnson - 1918-2008
Apr 01, 2008; ... Ernest F. Johnson, professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Princeton Univ., died Feb. 2 at age 89. Johnson was an admired and respected teacher, researcher and friend to the Princeton community for 60 years. An expert in process control, nuclear fusion power and hazardous-waste ...
AIChE Conference Calendar
Apr 01, 2008; ... For information and registration details, visit www.aiche.org/conferences or call Customer Service at 1-800-242-4363 or 1-203-702-7660 (outside the U.S.) 2008 AIChE & ACS Spring National Meetings and Exhibitions April 6-10, 2008 * Ernest N. Morial Convention Center * New ...
OBITUARIES
Apr 01, 2008; ... Satya R. Chatterjee, 68, Houston, TX Jack H. Height 61, Tulsa, OK Ernest F. Johnson*, 89, ...
PLANTS AND PROJECTS
Apr 01, 2008; ... ACCIONA Dedicates Nevada Solar One Plant ACCIONA (www.accionaenergia. com), an Alcobendas, Spain-based leader in renewable energy technologies, has dedicated Nevada Solar One, a 64-MW concentrating solar power plant based in Boulder City, NV. The plant - the world's third largest of its ...
JOINT VENTURES AND ALLIANCES
Apr 01, 2008; ... Alstom Partners with EPRI and We Energies on CO2 Capture Project France-based Alstom (www.alstom. com), along with the U.S.-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI; www.epri.com) and We Energies (www. wisconsinenergy.com), have launched the first pilot project that uses chilled ...
CHEM ECONOMICS: Chemical Trade is a Bright Spot for the Economy
Apr 01, 2008; ... The early years of this decade were some of the most difficult for the business of chemistry in the U.S. High natural-gas prices led to diminished competitiveness and, combined with the 2001 economic recession, challenged the domestic chemical industry. The after-effects of the Asian crisis, the ...
Using 3D CAD to Optimize Plant Design
Apr 01, 2008; ... Successful capital projects in the chemical industry require many skilled personnel to work together and share information. Although a plant itself constantly changes and evolves, a single consistent, coherent, validated design must be maintained. During the lifecycle of a plant, hand-overs of ...
EXPO PREVIEW
Apr 01, 2008; ... Process Technology for Industry PTXi international May 6-8, 2008 ~ Rosemont, IL Custom Filtration Devices Stay Reliable Designed tor pneumatic conveying applications, these filters can be used with various products and solidsloading rates. The filters can be made ...
Successfully Scale Up Solids Handling
Apr 01, 2008; ... A sound theoretical model of the process to be scaled is the best approach; if one is not available, bench-scale testing, physical scale modeling or full-scale modeling is required. Here are guidelines as to which method is appropriate for various solids-handling operations. Most ...
Software and Information Technology
Apr 01, 2008; ... Controller Upgrade Supports Unique Requirements of Many Specific Instruments Symbion-LX Version 2.0 preserves all of the advanced features of Version 1.3, and adds significantly expanded instrument-control and spectroscopic-data-processing capabilities. The result is a universal ...
Analyzing Equilibrium When Noncondensables Are Present
Apr 01, 2008; ... With the simplifying assumption that all of the noncondensable gases exit via the vapor stream, material balances and equilibrium calculations can be used to determine the compositions of the emission streams leaving a control device. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
Continuing Education 2008 Calendar
Apr 01, 2008; ... Las Vegas, NV Spreadsheet Power CH201 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..... April 7-8 Excel Programming/Spreadsheet Combo CH203 ... ... ...April 7-9 Excel Programming with VBA CH200 ... ... ... ... ..... April 9 Atlanta, GA Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA): Achieving ...
this month's topic Process Control
Apr 01, 2008; ... product Digest Mill System Uses a Pump to Control Particle Size The wet-process, Colloid Mill Lab System allows full control of residence time in the mill to achieve the desired viscosity control and uniform size of both emulsions and dispersions. It features a ...
AIChE Centennial Celebration: Forty Mileposts of Professional and Institute Progress
Apr 01, 2008; ... Forty Mileposts is a timeline of some of the continuing changes in AIChE membership, professional activities and organizational practices during the Institute's first century of existence - with special recognition to the people whose efforts brought those changes to fruition. 1888 First ...