The Value of Educated Guessing I would like to affirm the value of the article “Combine Dimensional Analysis with Educated Guessing,” by Gommes and Gilet in the February 2018 issue (pp. 49–54). I find dimensional analysis to be a powerful...
April
2018
Filtration and Separations Dust Filter Meets Sanitary Standards The Hygienic Round Top Removal (HRT) filter is a pulse-jet filter designed for dust collection in low-capacity pneumatic conveying systems. The unit has a top-hinged dome and uses snap-...
April
2018
Maintaining a sense of vulnerability is an essential component of a good process safety culture. But, what does it mean to maintain a sense of vulnerability? It means everyone in the plant: is aware of the hazards of processes and materials looks...
April
2018
Reflecting on a career in the oil industry that has spanned more than four decades, Steve Elwart, the Director of Systems Engineering at Ergon Refining, finds that many of the positive changes in industry have occurred on the human side of...
April
2018
Water is one of the most important resources in the chemical process industries (CPI) — presenting both opportunities as well as compliance obligations. It is involved in a broad range of operations, including separations, product recovery,...
April
2018
AIChE members balance two roles in their public lives: that of citizen and that of chemical engineer. As citizens, we desire a just and effective government; as chemical engineers, we apply our skills to improve the well being of society. These two...
Ophelia S. Venturelli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Venturelli lab aims to extract evolutionary design principles of networks and synthetic ecologies using a combination of experiment, computation and theory.Read more
Dr. Tsai is an Assistant Member in the Department of Hematology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His lab currently focuses on genome editing technologies for therapeutics, with a special interest in potentially curative genome editing strategies for treatment of hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell disease. Previously, he has developed methods for high-throughput genome editing with TALENs, and for defining and improving the genome-wide specificity of CRISPR-Cas nucleases. Dr. Tsai completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School...Read more
Join AIChE NorCal for our 56th Annual Symposium focusing on some of the challenges and opportunities in process scale up. We invite you to hear insights from professionals in industry and academia, honor our student and service award winners, and network with fellow NorCal chemical engineers. Time...Read more
