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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).

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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.

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

Nov 9, 2010
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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
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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
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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...

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...

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...

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...

Hybrid Membrane Absorption Process for Post Combustion CO2 Capture

Mar 23, 2010
S. James Zhou
Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and PoroGen Corporation are jointly developing a novel hybrid membrane – absorption process for pre- and post-combustion CO2 capture (Carbo-Lock™ process). The novel Carbo-Lock™ process combines advantageous features of both absorption and membrane processes to...

Stripper Configurations for CO2 Capture by Aqueous Amines

Mar 23, 2010
David H. Van Wagener
A monumental task for improving the feasibility of carbon capture from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants is reducing the total energy cost. A generic absorption/stripping process using an aqueous amine solvent would reduce the net power production of a coal-fired power plant by roughly 30%,...

Theoretical Screening Good Sorbents for CO2 Separation

Mar 23, 2010
Yuhua Duan
Carbon dioxide is the major product from coal combustion and is released into the air and causes global climate warming which we are facing today. Current technologies for capturing CO2 including solvent-based (amines) and CaO-based materials are still too energy intensive. Hence, there is critical...

Mercury Control with Regenerative Activated Coke Technology

Mar 21, 2010
James Peters
Many issues face coal fired utilities with respect to environmental demands, some based on regulations and others based on local pressures. These include increasingly stringent control of criteria pollutants, anticipated federal and state requirements for mercury control, issues revolving around...

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