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President’s Corner: 2015 Highlights
Dow Makes Leadership Gift
AIChE Election Results
AIChE Gala Honors Corporate Leaders for Process Safety Excellence
New AIChE Fellows
Division and Forum Awards
Member News
Your AIChE Membership: AIChE Academy

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Revive Your Columns with Cyclic Distillation

This process intensification technique involves changing a tower’s internals and operating mode and the separate movement of the liquid and vapor phases. This can significantly increase column throughput and reduce energy requirements, while improving separation performance.

France’s Chemicals Industry is Rooted in Tradition

France played a central role in the chemistry revolution and now has a leading role in the modern chemicals industry. Manufacturing a wide range of chemicals, from basics and specialties to fine chemicals for pharmaceuticals, the industry is a major contributor to France’s economy.

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - SBE Update: Continuous Progress in Biopharmaceuticals

The goal of bioprocessing is to optimize natural or artificial biological systems by manipulating prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and their environment to produce biopharmaceutical products. A bioprocess is divided into upstream and downstream operations. Upstream processing encompasses the steps...

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - Meet the Authors

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - Continuous Processing in Upstream Operations

Perfusion technology offers many benefits over fed-batch processing, such as reducing the size of the bioreactor, which reduces capital costs and enables the use of single-use bioreactor technology. Despite these advantages, a shift to continuous perfusion will likely be gradual.

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - Continuous Processing in Downstream Operations

The transition from batch to continuous downstream processing of biologics has been gradual, with some processes integrating continuous and batch operations. A fully continuous, commercial-scale downstream process has yet to be implemented. Find out why, as well as the current status of the...

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals - A Look at the Regulations

What is impeding implementation of continuous processes in biopharmaceutical manufacturing? Not the regulations.

SBE Special Section: Biopharmaceuticals (Full 19-Page Supplement)

SBE Update: Continuous Progress in Biopharmaceuticals; Continuous Processing in Upstream Operations; Continuous Processing in Downstream Operations; A Look at the Regulations

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Catalyzing Commercialization: Spinning Synthetic Spider Silk at Commercial Scale

Editorial: A Vote for Science and Engineering

Institute News

President’s Corner: 2015 Highlights; Dow Makes Leadership Gift; AIChE Election Results; AIChE Gala Honors Corporate Leaders for Process Safety Excellence; New AIChE Fellows; Division and Forum Awards; Member News; Your AIChE Membership: AIChE Academy ...

New Products: December 2015

CEP: News Update

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Patent Update: Patent Validity Could Come Down to Clarity

Process Safety Beacon: Stop! Look! Listen!

Railroad crossings that are not protected by gates or warning lights typically include signs to alert you of the potential for danger. Versions of the sign all have one thing in common — the reminder to stop, look, and listen. Only after stopping before crossing the tracks, looking in both...

Profile: Emily Leproust: Revolutionizing DNA Syntheses

Emily Leproust, CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience, is reinventing the wheel when it comes to DNA synthesis. “I have one goal with respect to DNA synthesis — that’s to make cloning obsolete,” she says. ...

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