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January 26, 2018

Food Engineering: Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

With consumers constantly demanding more from their food, the food production industry offers many opportunities for innovation. Engineers could design small equipment and low-cost sensors for gastronomic applications, work with chefs to scale up novel culinary techniques for production, and...

Journey to Mars and Chemical Engineering

This article will discuss the role of chemical engineers in creating the technologies used on spacecrafts designed to bring humans to Mars. Technologies include air filtration and water reutilization. The engineers must consider diverse materials and the technologies’ affects on human health....

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage 

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) encompasses methods and technologies to remove CO2 from emissions and from the atmosphere, recycle the CO2 for useful applications, and store CO2 safely and permanently. This article identifies some of the innovative CCUS options that are being...

Microbiome Engineering

Microbiota is the ecosystem of microorganisms that live within a cellular environment. This article will discuss the microbiome, which is the collective genetic information of microbiota within biological systems.

Natural Gas Upgrading

Smaller-scale, modular solutions will be needed to enable economic production of natural gas as the amount of smaller, more-remote wells increase. This article will highlight what RAPID’s natural gas upgrading focus area is doing to address performance improvements and cost reductions for...

New CRISPR Technologies 

CRISPR-Cas9 is a revolutionary technique for editing genes. This article will discuss how CRISRP-Cas9 has evolved to find new useful methods.

Sustainable Plastics

Block chains can be used to overhaul supply chains for sustainable plastics.

Water and Chemical Engineering

Water is one of the most important resources in the chemical process industries — bringing both compliance obligations as well as opportunities for companies operating in CPI. See how chemical engineers can play a role in making processes that use water more efficient and less capital intensive...

Mammalian Cell Biology

Synthetic biology is a growing field that combines biology and engineering methodologies to create artificial biological systems for the advancement of research, medicine, and engineering. This article will discuss the latest trends and techniques used in mammalian synthetic biology, a subset of...

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