By reducing, reusing, and recycling, we hope to mitigate our landfill impact as much as possible. We are careful to recycle any cans or bottles that we use throughout the day and often take the time to separate paper from plastic waste. But in most...
July
2019
Naomi Mburu is the first student at the Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to earn the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, which awards its recipients a post-graduate education at Univ. of Oxford in the U.K. Mburu, who recently graduated with an...
July
2019
Operators at a refinery observed a leak in a pipe that contained light gas oil exiting a crude unit atmospheric column at a high temperature ( Images 1 and 2 ). During the response to the leak, the pipe catastrophically failed, releasing a large...
July
2019
Heat Transfer Stirring Hot Plates Handle Corrosive Materials These corrosion-resistant, multiposition, stirring analog hot plates are suitable for acid digestions and can be used with most corrosive solutions. The 12-in. (305-mm) square ceramic...
July
2019
Your AIChE Membership The AIChE Beer Brewing Competition Chemical engineering factors into a staggering array of products and industries. One popular, if somewhat overlooked, endeavor is homebrewing of beer — an activity that demonstrates chemical...
July
2019
I have donated blood many times, and while I am familiar with this process, last month I donated platelets for the first time. Starting a few days earlier, I increased my water intake, and the night before, I ate high-iron foods. I arrived at the...
July
2019
Forty billion pounds of wild fish are used as crustacean fishing bait every year, consuming approximately one-third of the global catch of such forage fish. This $20-billion bait market plays a critical role in the vibrancy of commercial fisheries...
July
2019
AIChE Meetings For information and registration details, visit www.aiche.org/conferences or call Customer Service at 1-800-242-4363 or 1-203-702-7660 (outside the U.S.). July 15–18, 2019 • 2019 Carbon Management Technology Conference Magnolia Hotel...
July
2019
Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Development Moe Toghraei, AIChE-Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, $150, 496 pages, April 2019, ISBN: 978-1-119-32933-6 This text reveals the fundamental steps for creating accurate piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs...
July
2019
The July issue of the AIChE Journal focuses on process systems engineering (PSE) and how it is playing a role in society’s shift to sustainable energy. The issue highlights sustainable energy research from PSE groups across the globe. Articles in...
