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Conference Presentations - 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting

Deepwater Drilling Regulations In the Gulf of Mexico

Oct 16, 2011
Ian Sutton
Deepwater Regulations in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon incident (DWH) of April 2010 led to many changes in deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Not the least of those changes were to do with regulations. In the three months following DWH two important changes to the regulatory...

Sustainability of Biomass Crop Production

Oct 16, 2011
Shijie Liu
Woody biomass is renewable only if sustainable production is imposed. How to evaluate the benefit of different biomass crop species on a sustainability scale is a difficult task. Site dependence and regional diversity are the most important factors, while biomass productivity determines the...

The Design of Advanced Functional Membranes for Bioseparations

Oct 16, 2011
Scott M. Husson
Market demand is increasing rapidly for biotherapeutics such as recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, viral vaccines and plasmid DNA. With the advent of molecular biotechnology and engineered cell lines, upstream production processes have made unprecedented progress in the last decade,...

Automation and Control of Drug-On-Demand Technology

Oct 16, 2011
Laura Hirshfield
After the implementation of initiatives such as PAT and QbD, there has been a drive towards efficient manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. The concept of "mini-manufacturing" of drugs, as opposed to mass production of drugs, has shown promise in this area. We describe one such "mini-...

Thermochemical Hydrogen Production by Alkali Metal Oxides

Oct 16, 2011
Hiroki Miyaoka
In this work, we have focused a thermo chemical hydrogen production from water by using alkali metal oxides. This system consists of three step reactions. First one is H 2 generation by the reaction of hydroxide and metal 2MOH+2M→2M 2 O+H 2 (endothermic). From the oxide as the product of first...

The Importance of Basic Research Investment to Economic Growth

Oct 16, 2011
Thomas W. Peterson
The National Science Foundation is the primary source of support for basic research and education in science and engineering throughout the US academic community. At NSF, the Directorate for Engineering has historically occupied a unique and interesting space within the Foundation, and today is no...

Multi-Scale Study On the Pyrolysis of Sustainable Biomass Feedstock

Oct 16, 2011
Jessica D. Murillo
Multi-Scale Study on the Pyrolysis of Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Jessica D. Murillo Department of Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505 Joseph J. Biernacki Department of Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN...

QbD Principles for Packaging Design and Stability: A Regulatory Perspective

Oct 16, 2011
Sharmista Chatterjee
Quality by Design (QbD) is a science and risk based approach for pharmaceutical manufacturing and development. Enhanced product understanding gained from following a QbD based approach, is increasingly being used to select packaging design parameters and to determine optimum storage conditions. The...

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