Join us for our annual student internship/co-op competition where chemical engineering students share their experience, practice presentation skills, and win great awards! During this presentation,...
Large language models (LLMs) are beginning a new era of chemistry, where LLMs can connect and reason about experiments, tools, and databases to accomplish open-ended tasks in chemistry. This is...
Learn how to commercialize your innovative ideas from Christina Lomansney, a physicist with a deep background in materials science and electrochemistry.
As the process industries reassess their operations, most process units, trains, and sites that have been or will be idled can still be assets rather than liabilities. They are an opportunity to take...
In 2021, the LA City Council passed a motion instructing LADWP to develop a plan for achieving 100% carbon free energy by 2035. In order to provide reliable, carbon free electricity for a city with...
Engineering Ethics: Challenges for Innovation and Society Presented by Sujata K. Bhatia How do engineering innovations change the nature of humanity and life on Earth? How can engineers prepare...
Toxics Use Reduction Planning Helps Companies Stay Ahead Presented by Pam Eliason Large quantity users of toxic chemicals in Massachusetts are required not only to report on associated annual...
An online atmospheric radiation model is introduced and used to explain the technical details of the mechanism for global warming. Fundamental principles of the global energy balance, radiant energy...
Description: Numerous chemical absorbents and solid adsorbents are being developed for improved performance and reduced costs to capture CO 2 from power plant flue gases or industrial plant effluents...
While the general idea of digital twins has been in use for nearly ten years, the chemical process industry has employed similar computational technologies for decades. Originally developed for the...
This talk will focus on how to introduce CO 2 electrolysis into established industries and allow for their full-scale decarbonization. Following a brief introduction of state-of-the-art CO 2...
Abstract: Anaerobic digestion is a tool for addressing sustainability goals through organic waste management. Organic waste is generated from a number of sources ranging from livestock farms,...
Abstract: Public concerns about the health and environmental safety of chemicals are driving the development of more sustainable, ‘‘greener’’ chemicals and products. Intrinsic chemical hazards are a...
According to the TIOBE ( https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index ) and PYPL ( https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html ) indices, Python is the top computer programming language in the world. This popularity is...
Automation Cybersecurity: Connectivity’s Double-Edged Sword Today’s automation systems are much more highly connected than they were at the start of this millennium. Advances in technology, the cost...
Defining and justifying the validity of our assumptions is a cornerstone of engineering problem solving. While much of our education focuses on technical assumptions (does this gas behave ideally?),...
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is an independent, non-regulatory federal agency that investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents in order to protect people...
Converting CO2 into useful products?? What's up with that?? Many start-up companies are getting funded to convert carbon dioxide into useful products such as chemicals and food using renewable...
Top undergraduate student co-ops and interns will present on their exciting work at this special Virtual Local Section event. Four finalists will be chosen from among the pool of student competition...
Energy markets are fundamentally changing and shifting towards low carbon – driven by societal expectations, technology, and changes in consumer preferences. bp has been an international oil company...
Engineers are often aware of the inherent flammable and combustible properties of the materials they use, ranging from flammable liquids to combustible dust to ignitable gas. However, they often miss...
By now we’ve all heard that unconscious bias is part of being human. Although we may believe we’re being objective, we all have unconscious biases. At this meeting, we'll be breaking down the...
Nuclear energy has looked about the same for the last 60 years. Now, startups and the innovation arms of larger companies are looking to deploy new kinds of reactors in the 2030 timeframe. What's...
When undertaking the upfront design or studying routes to optimization of a production plant, the workflow typically requires manual transfer of data between different process simulators (Eg. Aspen...
Mitigating climate change necessitates stopping net carbon dioxide emissions within the coming decades. Part of this transition requires moving from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to...