Webinars & Conference Presentations
Monday, April 11, 2022 - 2:00pm
AIChE
The utilization of renewable energy and carbon capture have become popular and essential topics in the energy industry during the past years due to increasing concerns about global warming. This paper studies the Sabatier reaction for methanation
Monday, April 11, 2022 - 1:30pm
F&PD - Fuels & Petrochemicals Division
Methane will play a key role in all the scenarios as mainly seen as a source of primary energy for transition towards net zero future. Utilization of methane for chemical production, often considered as the âHoly grailâ of the 21st
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AIChE
Bowtie analysis is an established barrier-based risk assessment technique[1] that involves building a pictorial representation of plausible accident scenarios â a bowtie diagram â usually in a multi-
...Read moreWednesday, May 4, 2022 - 11:00am
Sponsored
When it comes to micro reaction calorimeter, could there be applications beyond scale-up and reaction calorimetry itself you’re not aware of? Join this sponsored webinar to gain a greater understanding of micro reaction calorimetry, including the measuring principle and its diverse...Read more
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 - 9:05am
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
Microalgae cultivation in large-scale raceway ponds is being developed by various organizations for production of commodities, in particular for animal feedsâa billion ton market, valued at over US$500 billion world-wide. Microalgae production requires
...Read moreWednesday, November 17, 2021 - 8:35am
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
Concrete, a mixture composed of a cementation agent, mineral aggregates, and water has the potential to serve as a gigaton-scale sink for carbon dioxide (CO2). This could make concrete the worldâs largest CO2 utilization
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 8:25am
ENV - Environmental Division
Carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, has been recognized as an accepted technology in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to achieve the
...Read moreThursday, November 11, 2021 - 9:00am
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
The use of fossil fuels, which results in huge CO2 emissions causing negative environmental impacts, is unsustainable. In addition, there are over 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol produced per year in the United States generating over 43 million tons per
...Read moreTuesday, November 9, 2021 - 4:00pm
ENV - Environmental Division
The cost-effective integration of variable renewable energy (VRE) generation is critical for power sector decarbonization but is contingent on designing power systems to be more flexible. Deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipped fossil fuel power plants on
...Read moreMonday, November 8, 2021 - 12:47pm
F&PD - Fuels & Petrochemicals Division
We are developing a strategy [1, 2] to replace crude oil feedstocks with biomass feedstocks in large integrated refineries to achieve two goals. The first goal is to use low-carbon biofuels to economically replace all liquid hydrocarbon fuels (gasoline, diesel, marine
...Read moreSunday, November 7, 2021 - 4:20pm
AIChE
In the United States, the âshale boomâ and wide implementation of hydraulic fracturing has dramatically reduced the price of natural gas. As a result, oil producers increasingly choose to flare or vent associated natural gas rather
...Read moreSunday, November 7, 2021 - 3:48pm
CRE - Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
In contrast to conventional methanol synthesis using syngas (COand H2), the use of CO2 necessitates C=O scission and, consequently, H2O is formed as a byproduct, which can inhibit the rate of methanol synthesis. Thus,
...Read moreThursday, September 30, 2021 - 9:05am
AIChE
An Overview of Pathways to Decarbonization
...Read moreJack Buehler
Principal Engineer Utilities, Energy, GHG, Renewable energy
Shell â retired
To achieve aspirational goals of becoming carbon net zero by 2050
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 2:00pm
Sponsored
Carbon capture (CCS) has become an important economic, industrial and environmental issue. However, there are technical aspects you may not understand because they typically aren’t covered in undergraduate curriculums. Attend this sponsored webinar if you not only design and operate a CCS plant...Read more
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 3:00pm
CAST - Computing & Systems Technology Division
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 11:00am
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
The atmospheric CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases have been considered as the main contributors to global climate change. To alleviate the effect of anthropogenic CO2 on global climate change, many strategies are under development that can
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 11:20am
CEI - Center for Energy Initiatives
The patent pending Black Swan, LLC âWig" Membranes and Membrane Air Enrichment (MAE) Process have several distinct advantages over other membranes and methods of producing enriched (concentrations above 20.9%) oxygen from air, including highly enriched
...Read moreTuesday, April 20, 2021 - 3:20pm
F&PD - Fuels & Petrochemicals Division
Kyle March, Albert Zwiener, Chemical Engineering Dept., Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78238.
...Read moreTopic: Fluidized reactor technology /Carbon capture/CO2 utilization
Monday, April 19, 2021 - 1:30pm
F&PD - Fuels & Petrochemicals Division
Internal Combustion (IC) Engine Power Generation is used throughout California in municipal Sanitation Districts to produce power with renewably produced fuel from waste digesters in the form of biogas, typically with 65% methane with the balance of the dry composition
...Read moreTuesday, March 2, 2021 - 2:00pm
CRE - Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
As levels of atmospheric CO2 continue to rise, all areas of society, including the chemical industry, are being asked to “do something” about CO2. But what? How should we best use our limited resources to address climate change? In this webinar, we’ll look at some of the various...Read more
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 1:15pm
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
The value of liquid hydrocarbons is hard to overestimate. If they did not already exist, they would need to be invented. Today, mining fossil carbon provides access to hydrocarbons for fuels and chemicals. However, there are other ways to produce liquid hydrocarbons. For
...Read moreFriday, November 20, 2020 - 8:00am
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
The U.S. Department of Energyâs (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy aims to advance the science and technology of the fossil energy industry to enable the reliable, efficient, affordable, and environmentally sound use of fossil fuels. Carbon capture,
...Read moreFriday, November 20, 2020 - 8:00am
AIChE
The Carbon Storage Program implemented by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is helping to develop technologies that safely and permanently store carbon dioxide (CO2)
...Read moreThursday, November 19, 2020 - 10:30am
AIChE
The Separations Division is more than an organizationâit is a community, and the areas within this community compete with each other in a collegial manner. This fact notwithstanding all areas face the need to optimize separation efficacy and cost
...Read moreThursday, November 19, 2020 - 8:00am
CRE - Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Catalytic conversion of CO2 to methane (via hydrogenation) and syngas (via dry reforming of methane, DRM) has significant importance in controlling global CO2 emissions. The widely employed nickel-based catalysts have limitations, and gaining
...Read moreWednesday, November 18, 2020 - 9:00am
AIChE
With this presentation, Mary Ellen Ternes, B.E. (ChE), J.D., 2020 President of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and Fellow and lifetime member of AIChE, will review the context, significant progress and important lessons learned beginning with the initial
...Read moreHigh-Temperature Solar Thermochemistry CO2 Reduction over Cr2FeO4/ZrO2@ZrO2 Oxygen Exchange Material
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 9:00am
SEF - Sustainable Engineering Forum
Artificial photosynthesis inspired by natureâs design concept focusing on harnessing concentrated solar radiant energy flow can be processed for efficient CO2 reduction into high-grade fuels. Solar thermochemical cycles have been firstly
...Read moreMonday, November 16, 2020 - 9:00am
NSEF - Nanoscale Science & Engineering Forum
Carbon black is the largest nanostructured material with annual production rate of just over 10 Mt/y worldwide. At the same time, soot emissions from fossil fuel and biomass combustion are comparable, just over 8 MT/y worldwide. As a result, there is renewed interest in
...Read moreThursday, August 20, 2020 - 3:20pm
AIChE
The benefits and challenges of a large scale industrial waste heat-to-power/cogeneration facility are presented in this case study of the Port Arthur Steam Energy Project. The project recovers 2000â°F flue gas energy from a petroleum coke calcining plant
...Read moreThursday, August 20, 2020 - 3:00pm
AIChE
Dry Reforming of Methane (DRM) refers to the reaction between CH4 and CO2 to produce syngas. However, due to the stoichiometry of the reaction, the H2/CO ratio of the syngas produced is slightly below 1. Life cycle analysis work done by our group [1] indicates that
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