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From Biochemical Engineering to Synthetic Biology: A Short History of Engineering Impacts on Biotechnology

SBE Webinar

Sep 27, 2012

Harvey Blanch

This webinar will focus on how biochemical engineering developed in response to the need for large-scale production of antibiotics in the 1940s and 50s, even though fermentation provided a route to many industrial organic chemicals prior to their production from petroleum.

Society for Biological Engineering (SBE)

SBE is a global technological community that promotes the integration of engineering with biology and realize its benefits through bioprocessing, biomedical, and biomolecular applications. SBE provides opportunities for interaction of engineers and scientists, develops products and services bring value to the broad biological engineering community, and infuses awareness of biological engineering among all functions and activities of AIChE.

Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division (FP & BE)

The FP&BE division coordinates AIChE's activities in the fields of food, pharmaceuticals, and bioengineering.

Forest Bioproducts Division (FBP)

The Forest Bioproducts Division promotes knowledge sharing and networking on topics dealing with products obtained from forest resources and other lignocellulosic materials.

Molecular Gastronomy: The Science of Flavor

AIChE Webinar

Oct 26, 2011

Professor Peter Barham

What gives food its flavor? What makes some foods taste really good while others can be mediocre or even disgusting? How far can science go in answering these and other questions that are so important for domestic cooks and chefs alike?
In this webinar, Professor Peter Barham addresses these and other questions.

Optimization and Characterization of the Different Fractions of Biocrude Oil (BCO) From Waste Biomass

Oct 20, 2011

Laura-Ann S.L. Chin

The increasing demand for heightened energy security, the sky rocketing prices of oil and the concerns over escalating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to fossil fuels are the main reasons why biofuels could potentially be one of the viable energy carriers of the future. Biofuels are derived from...

Model-Based Characterisation of Organic and Aqueous Tablet Film Coating Processes: Parameter Estimation and Risk Management

Oct 19, 2011

Mark A. Pinto

Tablet coating is an important processing step in the pharmaceutical industry in which tablets are coated with an aqueous or organic film coating for both aesthetic and functional reasons. Mathematical models of tablet film coating are important in pharmaceutical development as they aid in design...

Study On Thermo-Bio-Chemical Biorefinery: Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass After Hydrolysis Pre-Treatment

Oct 19, 2011

Rene Garrido

Study on Thermo-Bio-Chemical Biorefinery: Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass After Hydrolysis Pre-treatment Rene Garrido, Nydia Ruiz-Felix, and Justinus Satrio Chemical Engineering Department, Villanova University, PA 19085 Abstract Biomass-based energy is a renewable source of energy from...

Optimization of a Wild-Type Mesophilic Clostridium Species That Produces Butanol

Oct 19, 2011

Jianzhong He

Optimization of a wild-type mesophilic Clostridium Species that produces butanol Fengxue Xin, Sandhi Eko Bramono, and Jianzhong He* (*Email: jianzhong.he@nus.edu.sg ) The raising energy demands and climate changes have stimulated people to look for sustainable energy. Among the alternatives,...

Effects of Ammonia Substitution On Stability Limits and Emissions of Premixed Hydrogen/Air Flames

Oct 19, 2011

Dong Hyun Um

The potential of partial ammonia (NH 3 ) substitution to improve the safety of hydrogen (H 2 ) use was evaluated, using premixed NH 3 /H 2 /air flames at normal temperature and pressure generated on a tube type burner. The effects of NH 3 substitution on the stability limits and nitrogen oxide (NO...

New Model-Based Platform for Enhanced Content Uniformity Prediction of Oral Dosage Forms

Oct 19, 2011

Salvador García-Muñoz

New Model-based Platform for Enhanced Content Uniformity Prediction of Oral Dosage Forms Being a critical quality attribute for capsules and tablets, content uniformity (CU) has received continued attention from practitioners and academics with multiples proposals to relate it with upstream...

Simultaneous Extracellular Polymeric Substance (EPS) and Lipid Production by Activated Sludge Via Fermentation of Glucose

Oct 19, 2011

Patrisha J. Pham

The use of activated sludge microflora to convert sugars, derived from the hydrolysis of lignocellulose biomass, into lipids for biofuel production is of current research interest in our group. Lipid accumulation in this system has been enhanced by manipulating the carbon-nitrogen (C:N) ratio and...

The Effects of Carbon-to-Oxygen Ratio Upon Supercritical Water Reformation for Hydrogen Production

Oct 19, 2011

Jared S. Bouquet

The Effects of Carbon-to-Oxygen ratio upon Supercritical Water Reformation for Hydrogen Production Jared Bouquet 1 , Ryan Tschannen 2 , Aaron Gonzales 2 , and Sunggyu Lee 2 1: Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 2: Ohio University, Athens, OH With the continually growing energy...

A Data-Driven Modeling Approach Using the Design of Dynamic Experiments Methodology In Calculating the Design Space of Batch Pharmaceutical Processes

Oct 19, 2011

Christos Georgakis

The development of fundamental models for fed-batch pharmaceutical processes range from very challenging to almost impossible as not all the inner workings of the process are quantitatively known. Thus, the accurate calculation of the Design Space in which the process will be operated is a...

Aging of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis-Oil and Process Strategies to Produce Stable Pyrolysis Oils

Oct 19, 2011

Charles A. Mullen

Fast pyrolysis bio-oils are unstable due to a variety of factors, the most important being the high concentration of reactive oxygen-functionalized organic molecules, especially carbonyl containing compounds. Condensation and oligomerization reactions of these molecules lead to an increase in the...

Biodiesel Production by Transesterification Using Heterogeneous Base Catalyst and Effect of Co-Solvent

Oct 19, 2011

Arun K. Gupta

Biodiesel production by Transestrification using heterogeneous base catalyst and effect of co-solvent Arun Kumar Gupta a , Goutam Deo b Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India E-mail: a guptaak@iitk.ac.in , b goutam@iitk.ac.in...

Scaling up Strategy for Continuous Powder Mixing Process

Oct 19, 2011

Yijie Gao

Scaling up strategy for continuous powder mixing process Yijie Gao, Fernando Muzzio and Marianthi G. Ierapetritou Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 Continuous powder mixing has attracted a lot of interest among pharmaceutical industry. Based on...

Towards Developing Anaerobic Digestion Based Biorefinery – Research On Food Wastes As Feedstock

Oct 19, 2011

Shulin Chen

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a proven technology for waste treatment. However, as the organic material becomes more valuable and being treated as resources, traditional AD process is no longer adequate. The Bioprocessing and Bioproduct Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University has been...

Bioconversion of Brown Seaweed Into Mixed Ketones Through the Carboxylate Platform Processing

Oct 19, 2011

Xin Chen

The Carboxylate Platform, also known as the MixAlco TM process, is an acidogenic fermentation process using mixed culture inoculums, which offers several advantages compared to conventional bioprocessing, such as: non-sterile fermentation, the use of inexpensive tanks, adaptability to a wide...

Scale and Bioreactor Design Translation for Rocking Bag Bioreactors

Oct 19, 2011

John Bowers

Scale and Bioreactor Design Translation for Rocking Bag Bioreactors. The translations of scale and bioreactor designs for disposable rocking bag bioreactors are currently performed intuitively or with trial an error approaches. Conditions are typically based on manufacturer recommendations or...

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