The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) is pleased to announce its CCPS India Regional TSC Meeting to be held at Mumbai, on Thursday, October 4th, 2018.
Please visit the "Events" page of our website to learn about the sessions and activities sponsored by the Management Division at the 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting.
This issue delves into process intensification, modularization in chemical processing, and takes a look at characterizing adsorbents for gas separations—plus much more.
Process intensification aims to dramatically improve manufacturing processes through the application of novel process schemes and equipment. This month's special section provides an introduction to process identification and discusses current industry trends and opportunities
Ignasi Palou-Rivera is the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute. Additionally, he serves as the President of the US Manufacturing Innovation Council (an independent non-profit connecting the Manufacturing USA institutes) and the Chair of the Manufacturing USA Council. With a career spanning more than 25 years, Ignasi has diverse expertise in chemical process development, process modeling, refinery planning, process technology valuation and commercialization, and R&D management.
Prior to joining RAPID in 2017, Ignasi held roles at...Read more
This award recognizes outstanding scholarship, commercialization, education, or service in nanoscience and nanotechnology by engineers or scientists in the early stages of their professional careers (within 10 years of completion of highest degree). Nominations will be due May 1, 2018. Nomination...
Recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of nanoscale science and engineering in the field of Chemical Engineering through scholarship, commercialization, education, or service.
Darren Broom, Phd, is a product manager for Hiden Isochema Ltd., a leading manufacturer of analytical gas and vapor sorption instrumentation. He holds a BSc in applied physics from Staffordshire Univ., U.K., and an MSc in computational physics and PhD in materials physics, both from Salford Univ., U.K. After completing his PhD, he spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the European Commission’s Institute for Energy in the Netherlands, before returning to the U.K. to join Hiden Isochema in 2007. In 2011, Springer published his book, Hydrogen Storage Materials: The...Read more
MARK A. JONES is Kenics Product Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at NOV (Email: mark.jones@nov.com). He has worked for over a decade in the design, manufacture, and supply of static mixer equipment covering all industrial sectors, throughout the globe. He has a bachelor of mechanical engineering degree and master’s in computational methods of engineering from the Nottingham Trent Univ. (U.K.).
