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Chemical Engineering Careers (focus on environmental consulting)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The profession of chemical engineering offers multiple, distinct career paths. Although many young professionals entering the professional world will...

Agency - Friend or Foe?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Permitting a new plant, process, or modification can be daunting task. Early presentation and meetings with the Agency can help you climb the paperwork hill. In this session, a brief description of the various Bureaus and how they interact will be presented. Further information will be provided on the Bureau of Air which has the most complex rules and regulations.

Relating Surface Viscosity to Monolayer Packing In Model Phospholipid Films Using Active Microrheology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
The reorientation of a magnetic nickel nanorod placed at the air/phospholipid interface is used to calculate the surface viscosity of spread...

Water Mobility: A Bridge Between the Hofmeister Series and the Friction of Zwitterionic Surfaces In Aqueous Solutions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
In this work, we systematically studied the effects of ions in the Hofmeister series on the friction of zwitterionic surfaces with carboxybetaine...

Experimental Measurement of near-Field Capillary Interactions Between Rod-Like Particles

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Micrometer-sized cylinders at fluid interfaces self-assemble owing to capillary interactions, forming linear chains of particles joined end-to-end by...

Solubility of CO2 and H2 In PDMS and PEGDME At 25 – 120 Oc

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Advanced gasification power plants will employ the water-gas shift reaction to produce a high pressure gas-phase mixture containing CO 2 , H 2 and...

Maskless Fabrication of Nanowells Using Chemically Reactive Colloids

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
We describe a maskless process for the fabrication of nanowells on a silicon substrate using chemically reactive nanoparticles. Positively-charged...

Kinetics of Tetra-n-Butylammonium Bromide + Hydrogen Semi-Clathrate Hydrate Formation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Hydrogen (H 2 ) is regarded as a promising alternative to fossil fuels, because it offers a solution for three main global challenges: (i) reduction...

Deliquescence Behavior of Sodium Borohydride and Steam

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Sodium borohydride as an effective, cheap and stable material for hydrogen storage has been studied widely. Despite prior studies [ 1-5 ] on the...

Thermodynamic Analyses of Solar Thermochemical CO2 Capture Via Calcination/Carbonation Cycle

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
The effect of solid and gas phase heat recovery on total energy required for an ideal solar-driven carbon dioxide capture cycle based on calcium...

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