Meet the 2016 Candidates – Part 1
September 12, 2016
Voting for next year's AIChE Board of Directors is under way as of September 6th. Have your say and help direct the future of AIChE by voting!
Drought-Stricken Southern California Survives by Drinking Recycled Wastewater
September 13, 2016
Most people who live outside California don’t know that a large part of the state was originally a desert, and without water, it will revert back to desert. So as the drought...
Video Tutorial: Reaction Rate & Conversion vs Space Velocity
September 9, 2016
This month, we feature a tutorial from the Learn ChemE YouTube series that deals with kinetics and reactor design. This screencast describes how to use an interactive simulation...
What Makes an Invention Nonobvious
An invention must be both novel and nonobvious to qualify for a patent. Once novelty is established, the inventor must confirm that their invention is nonobvious. Unfortunately, there is no clear and straightforward definition of nonobvious, which has made this term the subject of debate ever...
Possible Path to Vaccine for Flesh-Eating Bacteria
September 7, 2016
It sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie: bacteria that feeds on human flesh. But the highly infection bacteria know has group A Streptococcu s is capable...
Graphene Shows Potential as Bone Implant Material
September 6, 2016
Research suggests that flakes of graphene welded together into solid materials may have potential for use as bone implants. The team of researchers behind the discovery used spark...
Novel Wastewater Treatment Is New "It" Technology at Stanford
September 8, 2016
Can a balding, late-middle-aged researcher who's hawking a still-uncommercialized technology transform America's aging fleet of aerobic waste treatment plants? The feat is a...
Efficient and Safer Recovery of Gold from Electronic Waste
September 2, 2016
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have devised an efficient and more environmental method for recovering gold from old electronic equipment. When electronics are...
Two Major Water Contamination Mysteries Solved
September 1, 2016
Few of her peers were surprised when Professor Joan Rose received 2016's Stockholm Water Prize in Geneva last March, which celebrated her career sleuthing, identifying, and...
Financial Pinch
This article describes a systematic methodology for prioritizing engineering projects based on pinch analysis. This approach provides a graphical depiction of projects to be funded, vis-à-vis available funding.
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