Life Cycle Assessment is a tool used in the field of industrial ecology to evaluate the environmental impacts of products or processes over their entire life cycle – from raw material extraction,...
Brian Hilton joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003 as a senior research engineer. He has over 20 years of experience in sustainable product design and holds 29 U.S. patents.
In various positions within industry, he has designed and developed products from concept-inception through fully-automated production successfully launching many products. As a part of the university, he is currently developing and using tools, such as LCA, to assist companies in creating economically and environmentally sustainable product systems.
He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering...Read more
2014 Spring Meeting Co-chair Meagan Lewis had a chance to chat with TJ Larkin, who spoke at the spring meeting on "Shale Oil & Gas - Don't Let Communication Mistakes Cause an Accident."
The difficulties in capturing and efficiently utilizing flare gas in the Northern Shale Oil fields are primarily ones of scale and lack of infrastructure. The Ceramatec corporation is working on cost effective modular solutions to this challenge of energy conservation and conversion.
April 8, 2014 Dear Colleague, Each year, AIChE’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) acknowledges the contributions of engineers and scientists to the field of nanoscience and engineering with two awards, the Forum Award and the Young Investigator Award. The Forum Award recognizes...
The majority of chemical products are produced and consumed in solid forms. Solid-liquid equilibrium (SLE) and solid-supercritical fluid equilibrium (SFE) are two critically important phase equilibrium phenomena that represent the thermodynamic limits of chemical processing involving solids....
