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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.

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.

Design Enhancements of a High Temperature, Ceramic Micro-Channel Heat Exchanger

Nov 9, 2010
Merrill Wilson
The recent developments in the energy and process industries have lead to more efficient, higher-temperature processes and compact equipment. By using small features such as micro-channels, pin fins or plate fins the length scale for which transport occurs is minimized and thus increases the heat...

A Compact Integrated Warm Syngas Overall Cleanup System

Nov 8, 2010
Liyu Li
Gasification of coal or biomass to syngas followed by catalytic synthesis of ammonia, hydrocarbons or oxygenates provides a feasible strategy to meet the increasing demand for fertilizers and transportation fuels. This syngas has many impurities, including As, Be, Cd, Cl, Cr, Hg, K, N, Na, P, Pb, S...

Microreactor for Industrial Application: Technical and Economical Benefits

Nov 8, 2010
Sergio Pissavini
A glass based high throughput microreactor technology is presented illustrating the basic design window, technical data and configuration. An overview of some class of reactions performance is provided as compared to batch process. For three typical reaction a comparison between typical plant...

Fouling Monitoring Techniques for Water Treatment Membrane Processes

Nov 7, 2010
Kuo-Lun Tung
Membrane fouling and flux decline are undesirable, albeit inevitable, problems in membrane filtration processes for water treatment. The development of low fouling membranes, the design of high efficiency modules, the selection of optimal operational strategies, and several improvements made in...

Creating Chemistry for a Sustainable Supply Chain

Nov 7, 2010
Charlene A. Wall-Warren
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, has a strong history of programs to foster sustainable development, including our eco-efficiency life cycle analysis program which we developed in partnership with outside experts in 1996. To date we have conducted over 400 eco-efficiency analyses for...

Chemical Engineering Outside the Pipe: Industrial Ecology and Sustainability

Nov 7, 2010
Roland Clift
The 2010 Danckwerts lecture is concerned with explaining the emerging field of Industrial Ecology (IE) and why it represents a new and important area for application of the skills of the chemical engineer. Wikipedia, defines Industrial Ecology (IE) as “a ‘systems-based, multidisciplinary discourse...

Treatment of Produced Water Using Microbial Fuel Cells

Nov 7, 2010
Abhijeet P. Borole
Sustainable utilization of natural energy sources in the future will require development of technologies with minimal impact on the environment. Produced water generated from oil and gas production operations currently generate 10 times more water than the amount of fossil fuel produced. In order...

The Water-Energy Nexus: Emerging Issues and Challenges

AIChE Webinar
Aug 18, 2010
Michael Hightower

This webinar provides an overview of water and energy interdependencies, as well as examples of emerging US and international water and energy related challenges, and discusses the potential local and regional conflicts that could emerge.

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