Microbial Conversion of Methane to Electricity May 22, 2017Researchers at Penn State have engineered a strain of bacteria that is the key to converting methane to electricity. The researchers' goal was to eliminate the need to transport...
RAPID Manufacturing Institute Announces First Call for Pre-proposals May 24, 2017The RAPID Manufacturing Institute is announcing the first step in a call for research and development program proposals in the areas of process intensification and modular...
Tesla's Solar-Plus-Storage Moves Island of Kauai Toward 100% Renewables May 11, 2017Battery storage is starting to replace traditional gas peaker plants by replacing diesel powered generation on small islands.
From the Nanometer Scale to the Oilfield Archived Webinar Feb 4, 2015 This talk focuses on recent studies that are designed to better understand the nanometer length scale association mechanisms of asphaltenes and how these studies can be related to a macroscopic perspective. For example, asphaltenes are a class of polydisperse molecules that are believed associate...
Dynamic Emulsion Characterization Archived Webinar Jan 21, 2015 This presentation illustrates several analytical tools that are being used to characterize dynamic emulsion behavior with application to flow assurance. Results will be presented for interfacial tensiometry, acoustic spectroscopy, inflow microscopy, and diffusional NMR techniques. Insight from this...
CCUS Pathways to Synergistic Fossil and Renewable Energy Infrastructure Archived Webinar Oct 15, 2014 This presentation focuses on practical and reliable solutions to climate change issues associated with power plants and how such solutions can enable far more effective use of both renewable and fossil fuels in a much more environmentally benign fashion. The mounting concerns over global warming...
Mid-Scale LNG Processes Archived Webinar Oct 16, 2013 This Webinar presents the need for natural gas liquefaction (LNG), the LNG value chain, and compares several technologies such as the PRICO® single mixed refrigerant process.
Atmospheric Impacts of Expanded Natural Gas Use Archived Webinar Aug 21, 2013 This presentation focuses on air quality impacts associated with hydraulic fracturing. Data and modeling on emissions and impacts of photochemically active air pollutants, toxic air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions are described.
Marcellus Shale Gas Wastewater Reuse and Recycle Archived Webinar Oct 3, 2012 This webinar provides background on how water is used for drilling and hydraulic fracturing and includes a review of hydraulic fracturing fluid composition and flowback and produced water quantity and composition.
Shale Development: Air Quality Permitting Challenges and Compliance Strategies Archived Webinar May 1, 2012 Though hydraulic fracturing is far from new technology, shale gas development utilizing fracking currently faces mounting regulatory scrutiny at federal and state levels.
Impact of Shale Gas Development on NGL Supplies and Petrochemical Feedstocks Archived Webinar Feb 2, 2012 Development of shale gas and oil resources in the United States has resulted in significant byproduct production of natural gas liquids, which has reversed the declining trend in US NGL production experienced at the turn of the century. A wide gap in natural gas and oil prices has supported the...
Fracking: The Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Archived Webinar Nov 15, 2011 Led by experts from academia, government and industry, this interactive Web Forum presents an overview of the history, the current state of development and a look into the future of natural gas shale and its extraction, along with implications of the environmental and water impacts.
Natural Gas Future Archived Webinar Apr 7, 2011 Natural gas, at prices significantly below BTU parity with oil for a long time to come, will certainly play a pivotal role in world energy supply and will move towards becoming the premier fuel of the world economy. A significant feature of future gas prices is that they are likely to be technology...
Achieving "Superior Energy Performance" Archived Webinar Apr 7, 2011 This Webinar, sponsored by South Texas Section of the AIChE, Texas Industries of the Future and AIChE Center for Energy Initiatives, was presented at the 15th Texas Industrial Energy Management Forum. It presents what the Texas plants learned about implementing an energy management system and...
Industrial Energy Management in the 21st Century Archived Webinar Mar 23, 2011 In this webinar the major approaches are classified into three categories: optimization of current equipment and operations, implementation of economic investments, and sustainment activities.
WHODUNNIT? The Mystery of CO2 Emissions: Is the Flowsheet or Equipment to Blame? Archived Webinar Jul 21, 2010 This webinar is of benefit to engineers involved in the design of chemical processes, and faculty at universities who teach courses and carry out research in process flowsheet design.
Energy Efficiency, Smart Grids, and Chemical Engineering Archived Webinar Jan 13, 2010 Energy efficiency is beginning to receive increased attention as a way to reduce the use of fossil fuels and the resulting production of greenhouse gases.
Challenges for Global Energy Archived Webinar Apr 21, 2009 This presentation describes and evaluates the technical, political, and economic challenges involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. It discusses what it would take, on a global scale, to transition to wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and...
Changes in the Energy Market and Their Impact on the Chemical Industry Archived Webinar Apr 14, 2009 Unprecedented volatility in the price of feedstocks and concerns over global warming have spurred the search for economically viable and environmentally sound alternatives. How are these forces impacting the chemical industry? How will scientists and chemical engineers solve the world's problems in...
Symposia Chair Invites You to the Refining Topical at #AIChESpring & #GCPS March 24, 2017I recently caught up with Ian Glasglow, Symposia Chair for the 20th Topical of Refining at the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting & 13th Global Congress on Process Safety . What is...
Development of a Model for the Prediction of Fouling in Heat Exchangers Processing Crude Oil Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMarch 23, 2010(Please Note: the audio does not start until 5 minutes 20 seconds as the speaker's microphone was not turned on.) A number of models have been...
Catalyzing Commercialization: DNA Sequencing: A New Diagnostic Tool for the Oil Industry November2016Catalyzing CommercializationThe U.S. oil industry is trying to do more with less, as operators seek to maximize reservoir production during a period of low oil prices. Producers are looking for cost-effective technology advances that can give them a competitive advantage to maintain profitability. One such technology may come from an unlikely source: the Human Genome Project.
Renewables Help South Africa Save Its Grid October 6, 2015Starting with almost zero renewable energy in 2010, South Africa has now built out more than 1,000 megawatts of solar and 800 of wind power. This was made possible by opening up...
Bill Hauhe Discusses the Business Side of LNG 3/13 in the series Interviews and Photos: 2016 Spring Meeting & 12th GCPS, HoustonApril 12, 2016Bill Hauhe, retired general manager at Chevron, delivered Tuesday morning's keynote at the 2016 Spring Meeting in Houston. His talk was titled "Commercial Aspects of the LNG Value...
Dave Rosenthal Discusses Reliability in the Petrochemical Industry 4/12 in the series 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting & 11th GCPS, AustinApril 28, 2015Joe Powell , chief scientist - chemical engineering for Shell, sat down to talk with Dave Rosenthal about creating reliable processes in the petrochemical industry. Dave Rosenthal...
Shell's Prelude FLNG Completes Major Construction January 22, 2016Shell has sent out a video update as its revolutionary Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project winds up major construction in Samsung’s Geoje shipyard in South Korea...
LNG Gazprom Buster Fights for Global Energy Security October 22, 2015Energy insecurity may be the world's greatest sales tool to encourage infrastructure impulse shopping. While many oil and gas producers are canceling projects to cope with low...
Swapping Solar and Wind for Coal, an Era Ends in Canada May 11, 2016Battered and reeling from falling global coal prices, by the time St. Louis-based Peabody Energy finally declared bankruptcy along with fellow miners Arch Coal and Alpha Natural...
Solar Predicted as Future's Cheapest Power in Many Markets June 25, 2015Even though the recent collapse of world oil prices will have a short term effect on the transition to a greener global electricity system, Bloomberg New Energy Finance thinks...
Electric Cars, the Smart Grid and the Next Oil-Surplus Price Crash March 9, 2016It's always hard to predict the future, but that hasn't stopped Nissan from trying. In a new video, the company uses computer-generated imagery to transport the viewer into an...
Congress Wheels and Deals: Trading US Oil Exports for Renewable Tax Credits December 23, 2015It's always nice when a business gamble turns into a sure thing. That former gamble — SolarCity's massive solar module giga-factory — is taking shape in Buffalo, New York. In 2014...
French Oil Major Total Is Gung-Ho for Solar, Batteries and Grid 2.0 May 26, 2016French oil and gas behemoth Total just bought a battery storage innovator and prepares for a century it sees as dominated by electricity.
Big Solar Meets Big Oil, Big Love and Profits Follow July 15, 2015With each new press release that pops up on internet energy sites, it's becoming obvious that innovation in the energy business is accelerating. Case in point: In Muscat, the...
The Saudi Oil Glut's Winners and Losers March 18, 2016Speaking to a packed auditorium during CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, Saudi Arabia's oil minister laid out the oil crash's cruel math for industry CEOs: first of all, the great oil...
Challenges for Water Reuse in Hydraulic Fracturing Wells May 6, 2014Of the many issues confronting the boom in formation fracturing processes at natural gas and shale oil well heads, water use and reuse are among the most important. Todd Langford...
General Motors' Private War on Coal December 28, 2015Several years ago, General Motors made a deal to turn Detroit municipal waste into steam, which helped to power one of its local plants in 2014. But that's just one facet of GM's...
Frackers in Permian Basin Upset Saudi Dominance August 11, 2016Once formidable, OPEC is taking a beating from US shale drillers two years after Saudi Arabia flooded the world with cheap crude trying to knock the upstarts out of the oil...
Budget-Cutting Pain Hits Oil Services July 29, 2015July 30, 2014 was just another budget-busting day to cash-strapped oil importers like Jordan and India as they bought oil on the global market. But in hindshight, it was the last...
Saudi Arabia Prepares for Life After the Paris Climate Accord March 25, 2016Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of ACWA Power , who has built cutting-edge solar and desalination plants across the Middle East and Africa, represents the future of the Saudi energy...
Chevron’s Gorgon Natural Gas Field Pushes the Limits of CCS December 7, 2014In the race to ship liquified natural gas to energy-hungry countries like Japan and China, Australia will easily surpass Qatar as the world’s largest LNG supplier before the end...
The Global Spread of Advanced Fracking Technology Is Winning the Oil War 1/4 in the series The Growth of Global FrackingJanuary 5, 2016In November 2014, OPEC and Saudi Arabia started a price war against the US shale industry (and other high-end producers) by refusing to rein in output and fighting for market...
Hawaii's Fossil-Fuel Reduction Signals Global Energy Trend August 25, 2016After Hawaii killed a deal that included a new LNG import facility and its conjoined twin, a natural gas power plant; and a leading Canadian tar sands producer, Suncor Energy,...
How US Shale Drillers Survive the OPEC-Engineered Oil Price Crash September 30, 2015When Ryan Lance, CEO of ConocoPhillips, told an OPEC conference in 2012 that the cartel was complacently under-estimating the global impact of US shale drillers, the audience,...
The Global Coal Death-Spiral Picks Up Speed March 30, 2016Last year the world began to decisively shift away from using coal to produce electricity. This reached a symbolic climax last week when Scotland shut down its last coal-fired...
Greener Use of Fossil Fuels: Lithium from Coal March 27, 2015Geologists from the Hebei University of Engineering in Handan, China have devised a plan to extract the lithium previously discovered in coal deposits in the northern part of the...
Why the US Fracking Boom Took Off and China's Sputtered 2/4 in the series The Growth of Global FrackingJanuary 6, 2016China has discovered that it isn't easy to duplicate a shale boom fueled by a special cadre of small, wildcatting oil and gas exploration companies.
Surviving $40 Oil by Unlocking the Mysteries of Frac-Sand October 2, 2015America may have started out as a religious haven with a lot of elbow room, but it's also a strike-it-rich country. That's why two of its most successful states,Texas and...
Overcoming Trouble at SaskPower's Carbon Capture Project in Canada April 5, 2016When it opened in October 2014, SaskPower’s $1.5 billion Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant was the world's flagship demonstration on the frontier of clean-tech...
Shell Buys BG Group for $70 Billion April 14, 2015As global energy needs have soared, liquefied natural gas has become a global commodity as it's transported around the world on ships from remote locations to energy-hungry...
Argentina's Vaca Muerta Is a Refuge in the Shale Storm 3/4 in the series The Growth of Global FrackingJanuary 11, 2016Productivity and costs soared as the US shale industry rapidly evolved over the past 7 years, drilling longer and longer horizontals much faster from multi-well pads that often...
Advances in Asset Health Monitoring and Predictive Analytics Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Big data is a hot topic in many commercial and industrial applications, and it also applies to the operation of refineries and petrochemical plants...
Catalytic Production of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Via Methane Dry Reforming Reaction over Hydrotalcite-Derived Ni/Mg/Al Mixed Oxides Promoted with Zr and/or Ce Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 20151. Introduction The reaction of dry reforming of methane (DRM) might become of a great importance in the near future since it is a method of CO 2...
Impact of US Natural Gas Abundance on Carbon Management Strategies Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015The abundant supply of natural gas provided by the fracking boom has dramatically changed the options for carbon dioxide management. It appears that...
Pyrochlore (A2B2O7) Based Catalysts for Hydrogen Production By Hydrocarbon Reforming Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 18, 2014Pyrochlores are a class of ternary metal oxides with general formula (A 2 B 2 O 7 ) where the A-site is occupied by the large rare-earth metal cation...
Monetizing US Natural Gas Conference PresentationSouthwest Process Technology ConferenceOctober 10, 2014Over the last several years Bechtel has experienced a dramatic increase in project opportunities that will convert low-cost, abundant North American...
The Past, Present and Future of LNG Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 2, 2014In one decade, the gas prospects in North America have gone from dire to exceptional. In 2004, we were scrambling to build import capacity for gas as...
The Ohio State University Chemical Looping Processes: 25 Kwth Sub-Pilot Performance Studies for Natural Gas Conversion and 250 Kwth Pilot Unit Developments Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 7, 2013The increasing focus on developing alternative fossil fuel conversion technologies is fueled by growing concerns on controlling carbon emissions from...
Combined Natural Gas Liquefaction and Power Generation Plant With Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 7, 2013It is generally well accepted that an increase in anthropogenic emissions is a leading cause of the increase in levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , one...
Reliability & Availability Modeling As a Design Tool Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013
Composite Fuels Production for Combustion Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013ABSTRACT Goal of the Project The primary goal of the project is the creation of composite fuels for combustion processes containing biomass, coal,...
QRA Method for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Filling Stations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013Summary This paper describes a method to calculate risks generated by liquefied natural gas (LNG) filling stations for road trucks. An increasing...
Hydrogen Generation From Residuum Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyMay 1, 2013Refineries in the U.S. are processing increasingly heavy sour crudes that contain metals, sulfur, and high molecular weight aromatic hydrocarbons...
Applying Isd to the LPG Terminal Involved in the San Juanico Disaster Through the Use of QRA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013Inherently Safer Design (ISD) or Inherently Safer Technology (IST) is a concept that, in direct relation to the process industries, dates from 1974,...
World Scale Boil-off Gas Reliquefaction Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013Boil-off gas reliquefaction has become an industry standard for many LNG carriers, which no longer use gas as fuel for steam boilers, but tap others...
Condensate Stabilization: How to Get the Most for Your Money Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013Condensate stabilization is one of the common process units in the gas processing world. The principle considerations affecting the performance of...
Constructability Issues for FLNG Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013Constructability issues shall be reviewed and incorporated in the Project Development Plan and Design of the FLNG. This paper addresses important...
LNG FSRU and FPSO Pump Considerations for Ship Motion Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2013LNG marine pumps installed in FSRU and FPSO applications are exposed to three degrees of ship movement as a result of wave motion. There is concern...
How to Get the Best From Your Preheat Train an UK Refinery Based Case Study Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013Crude refinery preheat trains (PHTs) are a major part of a refining process as it reduces the quantity of energy required to heat the crude oil to...
From Zero to World No.1 LNG Exporter in Less Than 10 years, Qatar Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013Qatar is a member of the OPEC and is a significant oil producer, but the Qatari government has devoted much more efforts to the development of...
Building an Iron-Clad BACT Attack - Avoiding Imposition of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) on Your Next Major Expansion Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013USEPA began regulating the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in major source permits beginning Jan 2nd, 2011. Their long-awaited GHG BACT guidance...
Removal of Heavy Hydrocarbons from Lean Natural Gas Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013Removal of heavy hydrocarbons, such as C 6 + from natural gas is essential prior to cryogenic liquefaction in order to prevent freeze-out of these...
Boil-off Gas System Design for Integrated Liquefaction and Regasification Facilities Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2013BOG system design for integrated liquefaction and re-gasification LNG facilities Dipanjan Bhattacharya Senior Process Engineer Bechtel Oil, Gas, and...
Recovery of Hydrocarbons From Froth Treatment Tailings of Oil Sand Bitumen Processing Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 31, 2012Bitumen is separated from surface-mined oil sand ore in a warm water extraction process that produces bitumen froth typically containing 60 wt%...
CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage and Natural Gas/Oil Recovery – Harnessing Scientific Development and Business Principles to Achieve Fossil Energy Sustainability Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 29, 2012Fossil fuels currently comprise more than 80 percent of global (and U.S.) energy consumption and are expected to continue to play a critical role in...
Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants ñ Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts-Portuguese Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 4, 2012Structure of process safety portuguese version
Survival Techniques and Technologies of a Startup Specialty Polymer Company Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Survival Techniques and Technologies of a Startup Specialty Polymer Company
Open Innovation At Fortune 500's and What Small Companies Should Know When Doing a Deal Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Open Innovation at Fortune 500's and what Small Companies should know when doing a deal
The NSF Small Business Innovation Program ñ the Search for Transformational Technologies Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012The NSF Small Business Innovation Program – the Search for Transformational Technologies
Electrochemistry to Transform Fluids and Power Into Higher Value Forms Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Electrochemistry to Transform Fluids and Power into Higher Value Forms
Materials Development for Advanced Catalysts and Gas Sensors Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Materials development for advanced catalysts and gas sensors