ChemE On Demand

AIChE's ChemE on Demand is a multi-media digital library containing hundreds on-demand webinars and recorded conference presentations. This convenient resource is designed to meet your needs as a chemical engineer. AIChE professional members are entitled to 6 FREE 'credits', good for content in ChemE on Demand each year. Undergraduate student members get free unlimited access to ALL ChemE On Demand content.

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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the U.S.: What Are the Options?

AIChE Webinar
Sep 11, 2013
Candido Pereira, Christopher Phillips
Chris Phillips describes both reprocessing and long term storage as complementary ways of dealing with the used nuclear fuel (UNF) from the US's nuclear reactors. Candido Pereira provides an overview of the nuclear fuel cycle and possible future directions for sustainable nuclear power production with an emphasis on chemical processing and recycle.

Fatal Exposure: Tragedy At DuPont

Apr 4, 2012
Marc G. Sáenz
This investigation by the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) provides unique lessons in process safety. Three incidents occurred over a 33-hour period at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV. The most serious incident occurred on January 23, 2010, when a release of highly...

200 Years of Chemical Engineering Pedagogy: Reflecting on the Past, Designing the Future: The future of Chemical Engineering and Pedagogy: The Paradox of Irresistible and Immovable Professors

Nov 20, 2008
Richard M. Felder
In this talk, we'll review the choices our academic community faces as professors and as a professionشhe conflicts between traditional and alternative ways of designing curricula, teaching, hiring faculty members, and preparing them to teachءnd make some predictions about how the conflicts are...

100 Years of Petroleum Refining Catalysts

Nov 18, 2008
E. Thomas Habib
100 years ago in 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T Ford and ushered in the age when cars were affordable to middle class Americans. At that time petroleum refining consisted primarily of distillation only, and the amount of gasoline required to fuel a large number of automobiles was simply...

100 Years of Advancement in Fuels and Petrochemicals

Nov 18, 2008
Irv Wiehe
The technology of petroleum refining will be compared as it was in 1908 with it is in 2008, a period of time that can be designated as the “petroleum age”. In this way the significant developments in refining will be reviewed as well as the technology that has been slow to improve. Using a crystal...

History of the Development of LNG Technology

Nov 18, 2008
Chen-Hwa Chiu
LNG started with the peak-shaving LNG plants in the USA. This is followed by the international interest of transporting LNG across the ocean for energy utilization. The size of LNG plants has moved from a size of around 1.0 MTPA to a 4.0 and 7.5 MTPA sizes. And the compressors are moving from Frame...

A Century of Petrochemical Advances

Nov 18, 2008
Bipin V. Vora, Peter R. Pujado
This session will focus on advances in the petrochemical industry, past, present, and future. The beginnings of the petrochemical industry date back more than 150 years. The first chemicals produced were aniline and dyestuffs and other derivatives from coal starting in the mid-1800s. Then,...

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