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Critical Issues Series: Energy

CIS

Commission on Energy Challenges (CEC)

"The Latest Innovations and Workable Solutions " from AIChE's Critical Issues Series: Energy at the 2006 AIChE Spring National Meeting.

Presentations include:

  • Keynote Address
  • Recommendations from Commission on Energy Challenges (CEC)
  • Energy Systems Analysis: Bio Ethanol
  • Metrics for Energy Systems' Sustainable Energy Strategies

A highlight of AIChE's Critical Issues Series: Energy is the work of the CEC which was created in 2005 to make recommendations for AIChE's Energy Strategy.

Following an intensive information gathering process that included AIChE members, volunteers, government officials, students, and subject-matter-experts, the Commission on Energy Challenge has developed and analyzed 15 specific proposals for consideration by the AIChE Board of Directors. For a copy of the complete CEC Report,  click here . 

Top priorities are:

1.  Increase the energy focus throughout AIChE programs:  

  • Energy, Environment & Sustainability focus or theme at one or more AIChE national meetings
  • Energy Forums at AIChE Meetings
  • Critical Issues Forums in Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)

2.  Motivate academic and industrial innovation in energy via:

  • Energy Student Fellowships in Chemical Engineering to be funded by Industry
  • Energy Innovation Consortium

3.  Develop energy tools and outreach programs like:

  • Energy Metrics
  • Energy R&D Website
  • Energy Resource (“Energy Toolkit”)
  • Energy Information Data Center (Validated Domains of Knowledge)
  • Public Speakers Team on Energy and Sustainability

4.  Continue to evaluate opportunities to impact the energy challenge.

  • Physical Properties for Real Fuel Systems
  • Educational television and radio programs
  • State-level outreach programs
  • Government outreach programs
  • Combustion Simulation Modeling

Though the proposed activities require further detail, valuation, and in-depth analyses before they may be cultivated from conceptual ideas to successfully executed initiatives, they illustrate ideas that would help AIChE and its members positively impact the energy challenge. As such, we believe this it the right time to raise funds from external sources in support of AIChE's energy programs.