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The CCPS Safe-Holiday Guide

The holidays should be time for rest, celebration, and family, but one accident can ruin everything. Here are a few tips to keep the holidays safe.

ARPA-E Gifts $130 Million to Cutting-Edge Energy Ideas

December 17, 2012
December 17, 2012

An early Christmas came to energy startups when The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) announced that 66 new projects will receive $130 million. This latest round of awards brings the total portfolio to 285 projects since its 2009 launch.

F&PD 2013 Elections

Elections are underway for open positions within F&PD Executive Committee. If you are a member of F&PD, we encourage you to participate in the elections. Please visit the election portal at http://www3.aiche.org/Elections/Home.aspx?electionID=7A8B172D-6122-432A-... to cast your ballot, the...

Embracing the Breadth and the Unity of ChE [Blog Series]

December 14, 2012
In this next-to-last post of the series, I take up the fifth reason that I think we are entering a Golden Age of ChE: Our profession’s breadth, linked by common background and problem-solving approaches.

SPE/AIChE Workshop on Flow Assurance

March 19, 2013 to March 20, 2013
The Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas
With the subsea and deepwater field experience gained over the last decade, great strides have been made in the understanding and management of production transport threats, also known as flow assurance. This workshop maximizes the exchange of ideas among attendees and presenters through brief technical presentations followed by extended Q&A periods.

High Starting Salaries, Meaningful Work…but Few Takers

December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012


Emissions of Mercury and Other Air Toxics: Compliance Strategies for Coal Combustion

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, January 23, 2013,
1:30pm to 3:00pm
EST
What do you need to know about mercury, HCI, metals and other toxics control? This webinar will address technical and permitting issues from two perspectives: what is required (by Nick Hutson of...

Bob Fraser

Mr. Fraser has over 33 years of experience providing engineering and environmental services to the power generation industry. His areas of expertise include power generation facility engineering, development, and permitting, air pollution control technology application (RACT, BACT, MACT), power generation asset environmental due diligence and power plant environmental compliance and non-compliance support.Read more

Nick Hutson

Nick Hutson is a Senior Chemical Engineer with the Energy Strategies Group (ESG) in the U.S. EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) in Research Triangle Park, NC. Dr. Hutson was previously, for 10 years, a staff researcher in the Air Pollution Prevention & Control Division in U.S. EPA’s Office of Research & Development (OAR).Read more

Embracing the Breadth and the Unity of ChE

December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012

In this week’s final post in the series about a new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about the breadth of chemical engineering and how the many different areas of our profession are linked by a common background and problem-solving approaches.

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