Chemical Engineering Progress 2007 - Abstracts

Chemical Engineering Progress 2007
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$100-million plant is first to produce propanediol from corn sugar.(DuPont's London plant)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
$1 billion in tax credits allocated to clean-coal projects.(United States Internal Revenue Service )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Accelerating biopharmaceutical development.(Society for Biological Engineering )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Addressing the human side of injury and incident prevention.(management of safety and security by employees in chemical industry)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGregory M. Hanggi
Advantages of fuel cells.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
A greener Chem Show.(Update)(52nd biennial Chem Show)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMatt McKeon-Slattery
AIChE members elected to the National Academy of Engineering.(American Institute of Chemical Engineers)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Akzo Nobel opens paper chemicals plant in China.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Al-Zamil and Chemtura plan study of metal alkyls plant.(Al-Zamil Group and Chemtura Corp. )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Apply an integrated approach to catalytic process design.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Nehlsen, Mitrajit Mukherjee, Richard V. Porcelli
A simple approach to vapor pressure prediction.(linear equation method in chemical processes)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAndrew J. DeDoes, Matthew D. Goetz, Michael J. Misovich
A smarter way to detect fugitive emissions.(Update)(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release amended regulation on gas emissions)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGerald Parkinson
Assess the performance of positive-displacement pumps.(Cover Story)(Excerpt)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLev Nelik, Luis Rizo, Gordon Kirk
A sweet way to produce plastic.(Institute for Interfacial Catalysis)(hydroxymethyfurfural)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Avoid common pitfalls when using Henry's law.(Environmental Management)(estimation and temperature dependence of the Henry's constant)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrancis L. Smith, Allan H. Harvey
Avoiding the pains of system integration.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichalle Adkins, Dawn Marruchella
Avoid problems in process water systems.(Heat Transfer)(methods to prevent fouling, emulsification and corrosion)(Technical report)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger D. Metzler, Marilyn W. Blaschke
Batch vs. inline mixing.(Update)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Bayer sells H.C. Starck to financial investors.(H.C. Starck to Advent International)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Benchmarking sustainability.(sustainability index)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDarlene Schuster, Calvin Cobb, Beth Beloff, Dicksen Tanzil
Biobutanol on the horizon.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Bioprinting.Engineering and manufacturing industriesVladimir Mironov, Vladimir Kasyanov, Roger Markwald
BP, ABF and DuPont unveil plans for grassroots biofuels plant.(Business Update)(Associated British Foods plc)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
BP Solar invests $70 million in North America HQ expansion.(BP Solar International L.L.C.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Breaking down the downstream bottleneck in chromatography.(Novasep's Biopharmaceutical Sequential Chromatography or BioSC system)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
California hopes to lead GHG initiative.(greenhouse gases)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Career advice and engineering resources: keys to the new student website.(American Institute of Chemical Engineers web site)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Cellulose-based products manufacturers Wolf Walsrode to Dow.(Dow Chemical Co. acquires Wolf Walsrode from Bayer Group.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Chemical engineering lays the foundation for a CEO's career.(Profile)(Carlos A. Cabrera)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Chicago local section: advancing chemical engineering education.(Institute News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Clariant inaugurates a high-performance polymer plant.(Clariant AG's plant in Frankfurt)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Clarifying filtration terminology.(Ask the Experts)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLarry Schwartz
Conducting polymers.(SBE Special Section / Bioengineering)(inherently conducting polymers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGordon G. Wallace, Geoffrey M. Spinks
Contingency in capital cost estimation.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn A. Williams
Controlling emissions during cold furnace startup.(carbon monoxide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles E. Baukal
Corn-based ethanol - addressing one problem, but possibly causing another.(ENERGY)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Corporate venturing and the pursuit of innovation: ten tips for intrapreneurs.(Career Catalyst)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMukund Karanjikar
Create business value through process modeling.(Management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBernard McGarvey
Creating safer processes in China-launching the CCPS China section.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Cut energy use through HVAC improvements.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Cutting the strings: process automation goes wireless.(Process Automation Corner)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerry McMahon
Deciphering the mechanisms of therapeutic protein production.(CHO Consortium/SBE Special Section)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin J. Kayser, Matthew V. Caple, Daniel W. Allison, Trissa Borgschulte, Christoph L. Bausch, Scott M. Bahr
Designing multiple-diameter relief piping.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Garvin
Determine the efficiency of air-pollution control devices.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Developing a sustainable energy economy.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
DHS offers further details on chemical security program.(SAFETY)(UPDATE)(Department of Homeland Defense)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Diagnosing misdistribution in towers.(uses of gamma CAT-scan technology)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Direct-bacterial approach holds promise for rapid antibody development.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Discussing climate-change challenges.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMatthew McKeon-Slattery
Dividing-wall columns find greater appeal.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGerald Parkinson
Don't let history repeat itself.(Safety)(lessons from Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn F. Murphy
Draft your patents with an effective claiming strategy.(Patent Update)Engineering and manufacturing industriesM. Henry Heines
Drug delivery systems get smarter.(Mimetic Solutions LLC )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
DSM to build plant for waterborne coating resins.(chemical firm DSM N.V. )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Early chemical reactor design by computer.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Snow
Effectively manage the lifecycle of a product.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBaha Korkmaz, Marty Martin
Emerson and Intergraph to integrate technologies.(Emerson Process Management and Intergraph Corp.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Emissions trading on the world stage.(Update)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMatthew McKeon-Slattery
Engineering organs.(SBE Special Section / Bioengineering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBuddy Ratner
Enriching the next generation of chemical engineers.(Institute News)(American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Scale Up program)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLowell Aplebaum
ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco receive China's government approval.(Sinopec SenMei Petroleum Company Ltd.)(ExxonMobil China Petroleum)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Fellowship down under turns researcher to writer.(chemical engineer Boonsri Dickinson wind fellowship from University of New South Wales )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Fighting Lyme disease.(chimeric proteins to treat Lyme disease)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
From idea to reality.(SBE Update)(biomedical engineering of the human body)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJune C. Wispelwey
Fuel cells, the hydrogen economy and you.(Cover story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHerbert W. Cooper
George Jetson's professional society.(American Institute of Chemical Engineers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Sofranko
Getting your global career in gear.(managers in chemical industry )Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Sofranko
Honeywell specialty materials expands Asian R &D Center.(Asian Technology Center in Shanghai)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Hydrocarbon membranes for DMFCs gain momentum.(direct-methanol fuel cells )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Hydrogen fuel cell research gets a boost of activity.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Improve catalytic oxidizer operation.(usage of low-cost catalyzed guard filter bed)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn C. Bonacci
Improving energy efficiency around the world.(Profile)(Christina Galitsky)(Interview)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Improving heat exchanger designs.(design of heat exchangers and management of production in chemical industries)Engineering and manufacturing industriesChristopher A. Bennett, R. Stanley Kistler, Thomas G. Lestina, David C. King
Industry and academia continue to collaborate.(Update)(BASF Catalysis Research gives research grant to the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Industry and SBE news.(CHO Consortium/SBE Special Section)(Society for Biological Engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
In memoriam-Edward K. Lofberg.(Obituary)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
In memoriam - Gary J. Powers (1945-2007).(Institute News)(Obituary)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCindy Fabian Mascone
Inspiring tomorrow's volunteer leaders.(American Institute of Chemical Engineers' conference)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
International Oil & Gas Holdings to acquire two biofuel firms.(Bio-Tec LLC)(PSP Science Technologies)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Introducing the inaugural AIChe Sustainability index.(Institute News)(Institute for Sustainability)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Is your cold lime softener effective?(Plant Operations)(diagnosing and correcting off-spec clarifier operation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLoraine Huchler
It's easy being green.(Timothy Venverloh)(Brief biography)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
John Swearingen, 1918-2007.(Obituary)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
John William Draper: brilliant chemist, bad historian.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Joseph J. Santoleri honored for pioneering contributions to waste management industry.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 26th Annual Conference on Incineration and Thermal Treatment Technologies)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Keeping the competitive edge.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLise Laurin
Kurt Swogger receives management division award.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Lanxess expands ion-exchange-resin capacity.(LANXESS Corp. to increase production)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Latest national data on toxic releases show modest increase.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Laying the groundwork for the next century.(Institute News/Letter from Larry Evans, 2007 AIChE President)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLarry Evans
Learning valuable lessons.(Society for Biological Engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Lemelson-MIT award winners honoring influential inventors.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Le plus ca change ... le plus c'est la meme chose.(SBE Special Section / Bioengineering)(Nicolas A. Peppas' lecture on nanotechnology and bioengineering)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow.(Brief biography)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Making wheat flour more nutritious.(Agricultural Research Service research on wheat )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Microfluidic chip helps to piece together the cellular mating puzzle.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Mitigating global climate change through power-generation technology.(CRITICAL ISSUES)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrank Princiotta
MIT to establish an integrative research institute to develop new paradigms in cancer research.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Modeling polymeric materials.(Danckwerts Lecturer at 2006 American Institute of Chemical Engineers meet)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Modular mini-plants: a new paradigm.Engineering and manufacturing industriesShashank Shah
Molecular breeding is key to Codexis' agreement with Shell.(Codexis Inc. is collaborating with Shell Oil.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Monsanto and BASF to collaborate on plant biotechnology.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Nanopolymers: discovering a new class of materials.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
New system uses a rotating magnetic field to detect pathogens.(Update)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
New York local section meeting: biodiesel arrives in Brooklyn.(Institute News)(Tri-State Biodiesel introduces used restaurant oil recycling program for biodiesel production)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Olefin removal route replaces conventional clay systems.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Predesign for pollution prevention and control.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGael D. Ulrich, Palligarnai T. Vasudevan
Process analyzers-a key control tool.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Processing low-rank coal into a viable energy source.(Update/PROCESS TECHNOLOGY)(Silverado Green Fuel Inc.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Properly select equipment for SIP systems.(Fluids and Solids Handling)(sterilization-in-place)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTony George
Racing to the finish line.(8th Annual Chem-E-Car competition by American Institute of Chemical Engineers )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
REACH: Now that it's here, what should be done?(Ask the Experts)(Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals)(TechniData America)(Interview)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Realistically predict capacity and pressure drop for packed columns.Engineering and manufacturing industriesHenry Z. Kister, Jeffrey Schuerffius, Khashayar Afshar, Emil Abkar
Reaping the benefits of roundtable discussions.(process automation)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Recombinant protein therapeutics from CHO cells - 20 years and counting.(CHO Consortium/SBE SPECIAL SECTION)(chinese hamster ovary cell research)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWei-Shou Hu, Miranda G.S. Yap, Karthik P. Jayapal, Katie F. Wlaschin
Remembering the late Walt Howard.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Birtwistle
Scaling fixed-bed catalyzed processes.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJonathan H. Worstell
Scaling up a high-temperature process.(hydrogen reactors in chemical manufacturing)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Seeing the future in genomics.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Selecting and using bolted head closures.(design of pressure vessels and quality management in chemical industry)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn C. Birkmire
Selecting elbows for pneumatic conveying systems.(Solids Handling)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Wagner
Selecting laboratory reactors.(Reactions and Separations)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarcello Picciotti, Francesco Picciotti
Selecting nickel alloys for corrosive applications.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Crook
Sharing career forum know-how.(Coastal Bend )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Sharpening softer skills.(Institute News)(American Institute of Chemical Engineers Boston Local Section's series of career development workshops)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Shoebox-size vehicles spark excitement.(9th Annual ChemE-Car Competition)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGordon Ellis
Singapore: an emerging leader in biomedical sciences.(CHO Consortium/SBE SPECIAL SECTION)(Biopolis in Singapore and the Bioprocessing Technology Institute)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNiki S.C. Wong, Miranda G.S. Yap
Single-Walled carbon nanotubes strike gold, silver sand copper.(Tokyo University )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Sizing up online particle size analysis.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Solid-acid catalyst shape up for alkylation.(gasoline fuels purification)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRita D'Aquino, Leon Mavridis
Solving global problems.(conference of chemical engineers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKristen Chin
Speeding up multiphysics simulations.(SOFTWARE)(Comsol Multiphysics 3.4)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Spotting solar activity.(uses of photovoltaic modules)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Spring national meeting: keeping focused.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBill Rhodes, Dennis Griffith
Streamlining the validation process.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTim Flanigan
Styrenics market continues to understand restructuring.(INEOS )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Succeed in the workplace.(successful career in chemical industry)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStan Sebastian
Supreme Court rules on obviousness.(Patent Update)(KSR International Co.)(United States Supreme Court)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Gourley, Chad Walter
Supreme Court to weigh in on patentability standard.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Vander Molen
Taking it to the next level.(SBE Update)(programs of Society for Biological Engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJune Wispelwey
The Baker report: analyzing BP's process safety program.(BP PLC)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRita D'Aquino, Scott Berger
The chemical engineering evolution: what comes next?Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert C. Armstrong
The do's and don'ts of scale up.(Ask the Experts)(scaling up a new batch chemical process)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrancis X. McConville
The future of chemical engineering an educational perspective.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames T. cobbb, Gary K. Patterson, S. Ranil Wickramasinghe
The G-value for agitator design: time to retire it?Engineering and manufacturing industriesGregory T. Benz
The rise of China-progress at what price?Engineering and manufacturing industriesBoonsri Dickinsont
Thermonuclear experimental reactor pact signed.(China, European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and U.S. )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The road to sustainability.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDarlene Schuster
The roots of process automation.(Process Automation Corner)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerry McMahon
Think molecularly to create new polymers.(Yueh Lin Loo)(Interview)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Tools to model multiphase separation.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTimothy Newton, David Connolly, Saeid Mokhatab
Treating Alzheimer's disease.(CoMentis Inc)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Understanding agglomeration.(Ask the Experts)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWolfgang Pietsch
Understanding future wireless options.(Ask the Experts)(WirelessHART and ISA100 instruments)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDick Caro
Understand the emerging issue of vapor intrusion.(Environmental Management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMatthew Traister
Units of GE, Toshiba and Bayer united to form a new entity.(Momentive Performance Materials Inc. formed)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Up front, efficient technology evaluation: it's what's needed to prevent futile investments.Engineering and manufacturing industriesReuel Shinnar, Francesco Citro
Use LOPA to determine protective system requirements.(layers of protection analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesW. Kent Goddard
U.S. research universities globalize or face demise?(chemical research institutes )Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam R. Schowalter
Valve selection for slurry services.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTodd Loudin
Washington approves clean energy initiative.(renewable energy policy)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Westlake Chemical completes polyethylene business purchase.(Westlake Chemical Corp. acquires Eastman Chemical Co.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Where is the chemical engineering industry headed?(forecasts for chemical industry )Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn C. Chen
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