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March 2011

Kilowatt Sutra: Lighting Up India's Rural Villages Using Unwanted Rice Husks

March 23, 2011
March 23, 2011

No country has more citizens living without power than India, where more than 400 million people have no electricity.

YP Speed Networking Event a Huge Success [Interview + Photos]

March 22, 2011
March 22, 2011

Life Cycle Assessment Tools for Algal Biofuels [On Location]

March 21, 2011
March 21, 2011

Edward Frank, of Argonne National Laboratory discussed his group’s efforts to create the evaluation tools necessary to perform that analysis for algae derived biofuels, be they biodiesel or other refined fuels.

Anaerobic Treatment of High-Strength Effluents in Food, Beverage, and Agriculture [On Location]

March 20, 2011
March 20, 2011

Carlos Claros of MWH Americas presented a succinct summary of the benefits of anaerobic treatment for high strength COD/BOD (organic) loaded wastewater streams. In industry, about 65% of the successful applications have been in the food, food and animal processing, agricultural, and beverage industries.

Production of Biofuels from Giant Miscanthus [On Location]

March 18, 2011
March 18, 2011

The plant giant miscanthus (GM), a grass of Japanese origins, is proving to be a viable contender for a land-efficient biomass source of biofuels. A patented hybrid has been developed that can yield 25 tons/acre (5 times more that switchgrass), and produces a bio-oil that can be used as boiler fuel, further processed into other fuels or value added products, or reformed to generate hydrogen.

Determining the Value of a Chemical Business [On Location]

March 17, 2011
March 17, 2011

Whether getting in or getting out, successful business level transactions are dependent upon an accurate and insightful valuation of the business, its assets, income capabilities, and the business's place in the market. On Tuesday, Clinton Bogart, VP of the Industrial Valuation and Advisory Services group at CB Richard Ellis, presented the tools and techniques that have brought him and his company to a leadership position in the field.

Work Would Be So Much Easier Without People

Archived Webinar
Thursday, March 24, 2011,
9:00pm to 10:00pm
EDT
Our training as engineers focuses on the physical sciences, and the relationships we learn about are generally mathematical ones. However, the day-to-day work of engineering requires constant...

"Dyeing" to Know How to Make the Chicago River "ChEnected Green"?

March 17, 2011
March 17, 2011

For more than forty years,

Improved Zinc Oxide Nanowire-Based Solar Cells [On Location]

March 16, 2011
March 16, 2011

Current research on the use of new structures in zinc oxide nano-wires to enhance PV cell efficiency is being performed at Georgia Tech University, and some preliminary results were presented by Mallarie McCune on Tuesday.

2011 Offshore Technology Conference

May 2, 2011 to May 5, 2011
Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is the world’s foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection. Learn more about OTC’s 12 sponsoring organizations, one of which is AIChE.

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