Energy (Sustainability & Environment)

October 8th (10/08) was chosen in reference to the atomic weight of hydrogen, 1.008.

Madhu Khanna discusses cellulosic biofuels, their economic and sustainability benefits and tradeoffs, and what's needed to see cellulosic biofuels thrive.

As the hydrogen economy grows, so does the need for technical information and know-how about hydrogen safety. Read more about safety advances.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology continues to advance and show great promise. Sunita Satyapal of the US DOE discusses advances with Nick Barilo of AIChE's Center for Hydrogen Safety.

On April 2, AIChE formally unveiled its new Center for Hydrogen Safety with a slate of sessions held at the 2019 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in New Orleans, LA.

Sharon Beshouri, President of Shell Global Solutions (U.S.), Inc., has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award. She set the stage for the conference with her welcome keynote lecture entitled “Embracing Transitions Today: Assuring a Robust Future Tomorrow.”

Chemical industry entrepreneur John Sofranko talks about his background, building a business, and about his company's goals and challenges.

Watch a discussion on the future of energy.

This series looks at the future of chemical engineering, revisiting past predictions for the profession and pairing them with current predictions for the next 25 years.

Condensing natural gas into a liquid, nonflammable form through natural gas upgrading is key to expanding natural gas production.

Air temperature is no longer a significant factor for electric-car charging, thanks to new battery technology.

Wind energy can now be more sustainable than ever, thanks to recyclable resin with low-energy production requirements.

A microbe's ability to ingest methane opens the doors for potentially producing various product precursors in an environmentally friendly way.

As efficient as current platinum-based catalysts, the nanostructured composite material sidesteps costly platinum.

Computer modeling reveals the true potential of open-ocean wind farms, compared to conventional land-based wind farms.

One day a simple yoga class or stroll down the street may power wearable electronics, and one research team thinks it has created the ideal power source.

Inspired by insects’ compound eyes, researchers at Stanford University have developed a new solar cell that could open the doors to a new generation of advanced photovoltaics.

The North Sea is the most prolific location in the world for building offshore windfarms.

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Until now, biodiesel could not be used undiluted in a conventional diesel engine since its boiling point is higher than that of petroleum diesel.

Researchers at Penn State have engineered a strain of bacteria that is the key to converting methane to electricity.

Battery storage is starting to replace traditional gas peaker plants by replacing diesel powered generation on small islands.

Imagine a technology that could capture atmospheric carbon dioxide, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, reduce the alkalinity of industrial waste, and generate useful materials — all in one proc

The EU is reducing carbon production, thanks to hydrogen-fueled rail technology and new steelmaking technology.

California is the only state in the country coping with too much solar power, and it's a problem that's still getting worse as each new utility-scale solar farm is built

Two weeks ago, Dr. Art Rosenfeld, the embodiment of energy efficiency, died in his home at the age of 90, not far from the Berkeley lab where he worked for over forty years.

Catching the strong Atlantic winds thirteen miles off the coast of Rhode Island, Deepwater Wind's five 6 MW offshore wind turbines started sending clean power to Block Island'

A new electric bus has clocked 600 miles on one charge in track testing, and its makers are ready to rid the country of diesel buses.

London's new mayor Sadiq Khan just put fifty electric buses on the streets to help shrink a toxic cloud blighting one of Europe's most magisterial cities.

After 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, voluntarily decided t

It's all hands on deck for the monumental task of decarbonizing the world energy system, and some speculate that may take a decade shy of the next century before it's complete, if ever.

Every tailgating long-distance trucker knows that slip-streaming behind another big rig — a driving skill perfected on NASCAR tracks — can boost the bottom line by saving expensive fuel

Inspired by vitamin B2, researchers at Harvard have discovered a entire new class of high-performing organic molecules that can be used in flow batteries to store electricity from solar and wind power.

Many energy startups claim that their new software, gadget, or platform will change the way the world uses energy, but Robert Fares, writing for

Last January a documentary crew in Abu Dhabi watched the global energy system reach a tipping point and shift decisively toward renewable energy.

Nuclear reactors have had long, productive lives.

Tidal power developers say 2016 is shaping up to be the new technology's coming-of-age year, with projects in France, Scotland, and Canada successfully ramping up.

Low-temperature wasted heat is generally seen as an unusable byproduct of manufacturing and power generation, but researchers at Yale’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering ha

A more environmentally friendly recycling method for polyethylene not only eliminates waste but also provides liquid fuel.

Grid 2.0 is hot. Which means battery storage is heating up too.

Battered and reeling from falling global coal prices, by the time St.

Rail storage shows major advantages for the future of California's grid storage, potentially leaving storage batteries in the dust.

There’s enough untapped wind streaming across the vast plains of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to generate more electricity than a fleet of Hoover Dams.

As we watch coal get kicked to the curb, particularly in developed countries, the International Energy Agency thinks it's time for a paradigm-check.

When 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 innovatio

With 24 airlines, 1,000 flights a week and 7 million passengers a year, Cochin International Airport in India’s Kerala state is the third busiest in India.

Speaking to a packed auditorium during CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, Saudi Arabia's oil minister laid out the oil crash'

Many utilities think that wind and solar PV can only provide a small percentage of power without undermining grid stability.

A new generation of microgrids is beginning to win funding from investors as a profitable way to bring power to the 620 million Africans who lack access to electricity.

Two weeks ago, when the King of Morocco ceremonially switched on the Noor I concentrated solar plant (CSP), he was hoping to turn his country into a renewable energy powerhouse over the next ten ye

By loading warehouse rooftops with with solar panels and selling electricity back to the grid, Prologis is a global model of profitability and sustainability.

Neste Oil, a Finnish oil refining and marketing company, officially dropped "oil" from its name, given its major emphasis on biofuels.