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An Overview of the Global Desalination Situation

Oct 29, 2012
Isabel C. Escobar
According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), one in three people globally endures some form of water scarcity, one-quarter of the world's population lives in areas where water is physically scarce, and over a billion people live where water is economically scarce. Existing...

Scale-up of SAPO-34 Membranes for CO2/CH4 Separation

Oct 29, 2012
Richard D. Noble
SAPO-34 membranes have pores with a diameter of approximately 0.38 nm and have the potential to be used for large scale removal of CO 2 impurities from natural gas. Tubular SAPO-34 membranes have been shown previously to have high permeances and selectivities at high pressures, so that CO 2 can be...

New Challenges and Opportunities for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Science

Oct 29, 2012
Vincent Vilker
New Challenges and Opportunities for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Science Vincent L Vilker and Mansoor A Khan, CDER/FDA The increasing sophistication of modern drug products is leading to unprecedented challenges and opportunities for pharmaceutical manufacturing. At the same time, scientific and...

The Mixed Matrix Membrane Story

Oct 29, 2012
Santi Kulprathipanja
The talk will highlight the evolution of Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMM), developed in the mid-1980s. The talk will first provide an introduction into the strategic thinking that led to the development of the water stable adsorbent ADS-200. ADS-200 is a cellulose acetate bound zeolite used in the...

Optimal Plant Operation of Industrial Reverse Osmosis Desalination

Oct 29, 2012
Mingheng Li
A comprehensive first-principles based mathematical model, which explicitly accounts for membrane hydraulic permeability, pump characteristic curves and retentate pressure drop, is developed to describe the reverse osmosis desalination process. Parameters used in the model are derived from data...

Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Materials and Membranes for Molecular Separations

Oct 29, 2012
Sankar Nair
This talk will describe our recent progress in the synthesis and processing of MOF/ZIF materials for molecular separation applications, and their subsequent use in the fabrication of membrane/thin film devices for such uses. New separations technology is key to increased energy efficiency in the...

Looking to the Future in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Oct 29, 2012
Richard D. Braatz
This presentation describes the motivations, challenges, and opportunities in continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Some of the motivations are particularly intriguing, such as semicontinuous and continuous-flow unit operations that have the potential to have order-of-magnitude higher...

International Comparison on the Application of Societal Risk Criteria

Apr 4, 2012
Robin Pitblado
Quantitative risk assessment is now a common tool used for planning and approval of high risk process facilities globally. The initial focus was towards individual risk contours as these were easier to apply and communicate, but a number of regulators and companies also wish to see societal risk...

Modeling of Ground Flare Pits

Apr 4, 2012
Nicolas F. Ponchaut
New LNG liquefaction facilities have been configured to include large ground flares to allow for the safe combustion of large volumes of combustible gasses in the event of facility upset conditions. A recent example is a planned LNG development nearby Darwin, Australia. These ground flares can...

Amine Treating: A Technology Review and Tutorial

Apr 3, 2012
Richard Ackman
Removal of H 2 S and CO 2 from gas streams and liquid hydrocarbon streams is important in many industrial processes. Solutions of aqueous amines have been used for more than 70 years to remove these unwanted acidic components in refineries streams, chemical processing and gas purification...

Controlling Mechanisms of Dust Layer Ignition and Flame Propagation in Dust Clouds

Apr 3, 2012
Ali S. Rangwala
Initiation and propagation of dust deflagrations are extremely complex phenomena due to the interaction between solid particles and the gaseous flame front. In comparison with premixed gas deflagration, a dust-oxidizer deflagration depends on the rate of evolution of volatiles, the mixing of these...

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