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Conference Presentations - 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting

Optimal Synthesis of Fuel Gas Networks for Energy Sustainability

Oct 16, 2011
Iftekar A. Karimi
The world is facing two critical and inseparable issues in energy and climate change. The fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) that supply over 85% of the current primary worldwide demand will continue to be the major source for the near future. However, coal, oil, and natural gas emit 208,...

Building Human Capacity in Chemical Engineering in Kazakhstan

Oct 16, 2011
Stefaan Simons
The collapse of the former Soviet Union and the transition of the new independent states to market economies has highlighted the need for a radical overhaul of the higher education system. This is particularly the case in engineering sciences. Due to national requirements, in regards to human...

Investigating Fundamental Electrochemical Processes In a Li-O2 Battery

Oct 16, 2011
Bryan McCloskey
Li-air batteries have received significant attention as a potential high specific energy alternative to current state-of-the-art rechargeable Li-ion batteries. Nevertheless, published Li-air embodiments have only achieved a small fraction of their enormous theoretical specific energy (11,700 Wh/kg...

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...

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