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Mark Brower

Mark Brower is currently a member of the Downstream Process Development and Engineering group within the Biologics and Vaccines Development organization.  There, he is responsible for leading a team of scientists investigating novel upstream and downstream initiatives towards a low cost protein production platform including perfusion cell culture, continuous biomanufacturing and single-use systems.  Prior to this, Mark has developed purification processes for both natural product secondary metabolites and small molecule enzymatic biotransformations.  Mark earned his BS in...Read more

Members

Members Ad Astra Rocket Company* Air Liquide* Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.* Alakai Technologies* Bayotech Deutsche Gesellschaft für chemisches Apparatewesen (DECHEMA)* FirstElement* Gangwon Technopark National Grid National Renewable Energy Laboratory* Nebraska Public Power District Nel Hydrogen North-West University (South Africa) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory* PDC Machines Plug Power Power Innovations Protium Innovations LLC* Sandia National Laboratories* Shell* The Society for Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ)* Sunline Transit HySUT* Toyota UL LLC* Washington State University*...

Optimize Your Fluidized Bed Catalyst Make-up Rate

Here, in Part 2 of this series, we consider fluidized beds and slurry reactors with a continuous catalyst make-up and purge rate. From the perspective of an economic evaluation, the make-up catalyst is treated as an ongoing variable cost, rather than an initial investment that pays back over...

Scholarships

The following scholarships are currently offered by Mid Michigan AIChE Engineering Exploration Scholarship Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Education Scholarship Support the Mid-Michigan Section of AIChE Scholarships The Mid-Michigan Section of AIChE is involved in STEM educational outreach. We provide classroom demonstrations and support aspiring engineers through scholarships for summer camps and chemical engineering degrees. Your donation will be used to help Mid-Michigan AIChE establish a sustainable scholarship fund that sends high school students to the Michigan Technological...

Dividing-Wall Columns: Lessons Learned from Naphtha Upgrading

Dividing-wall columns (DWCs) improve the energy efficiency and reduce capital cost requirements by approximately 20–30% relative to conventional distillation towers. The unique feature of a DWC is a vertical wall (or walls) within the column that eliminates remixing of components, which is...

Process Intensification using Building Blocks

Process intensification often requires innovative solutions to make drastic improvements. However, identification of optimal intensification schemes is not always an easy task, even at the conceptual design stage. The traditional paradigm of unit-operation-based process synthesis may not always...

Using Simulation and Digitalization in Modular Chemical Processing for Process Intensification

The chemical process industries (CPI) have been built upon two fundamental tenets: economies of scale, and unit operations. Traditional chemical processing takes advantage of economies of scale by building large plants, which make better use of capital and resources. And, the processing steps...

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