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Marcellus Shale Gas Wastewater Reuse and Recycle

AIChE Webinar
Oct 3, 2012
Jessica Gray

This webinar provides background on how water is used for drilling and hydraulic fracturing and includes a review of hydraulic fracturing fluid composition and flowback and produced water quantity and composition.

Institute for Sustainability (IfS)

IfS is an umbrella organization encompassing a broad spectrum of activities related to sustainability. It has three sub-entities: the Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF), the Center for Sustainable Technology Practices (CSTP), and the Youth Council on Sustainability Science and Technology (YCOSST). It also provides oversight to the AIChE Sustainability Index (sm).

Environmental Division (ENV)

The ENV division provides relevant programs on current environmental topics and non-confidential information concerning all aspects of environmental activity. The division promotes publication of papers of interest to chemical engineers in environmental activities as well as coordinates the Institute’s activities with other related societies.

2011 AIChE WISE Intern Presentations

AIChE Webinar
Aug 3, 2011
Mikkel VandeBergh, Mikkel Vandebergh

In this webinar, the interns from the 2011 AIChE WISE program (Washington Internships for Student Engineering) present projects focusing on energy issues in the United States.

Embedding Sustainability in GlaxoSmithKline's Operations

SEF Webinar
May 11, 2011
Concepcion Jimenez-Gonzalez

This presentation covers an overview of the Materials Guides with information and EHS ranking on a wide range of solvents and bases and the life cycle impacts associated with solvent manufacture.

Chemical Engineering Careers (focus on environmental consulting)

Mar 14, 2011
Kurt Rindfusz
The profession of chemical engineering offers multiple, distinct career paths. Although many young professionals entering the professional world will spend the majority of their time in an industrial setting, working in important careers such as process engineering; many alternatives present...

Real Time CO2 and Energy Cost Reductions: Field Experiences In Petrochemical Plants

Mar 14, 2011
Oscar Santollani
Over a period of more than 10 years of deploying industrial projects related to energy systems real time optimization and cost reduction in processing industries around the world, the following issues have been found time and time again: • Many applications of energy cost reduction technologies are...

Credentials for Sustainability Professionals

SEF Webinar
Dec 8, 2010
Deborah Grubbe

In order to effect more positive and faster advancements in the sustainability arena, the speaker suggests that the sustainability community must address two fundamental components.

Critical Water Issues for the Chemical Process Industries

AIChE Webinar
Nov 17, 2010
David Klanecky

David Klanecky, global director of research and development for Dow Water & Process Solutions, provides an overview of the resins and water filtration technologies helping chemical process industries to make the most of the water we have today without risking the supplies of tomorrow.

Environmental Calculations: A Multimedia Approach

August, 2009
Consolidates information and technical calculations for a wide variety of environmental factors Operating a business facility of any size, especially a manufacturing location, requires environmental permits from a number of governmental regulatory agencies responsible for protecting human health...

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