Chemical Engineering Practice

Dr. Robert W. Ivester currently serves as the deputy director of the EERE Advanced Manufacturing Office, U.S.

Monica Wilson discusses what led her to the career choice of process engineer and talks about her work at Union Carbide and AkzoNobel.

@ChEnected will be live tweeting throughout the 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting and the 8th World Congress on Particle Techn

Researchers from Brazil and the UK are fighting water pollution two ways with a method that reuses polystyrene to filter toxic and carcinogenic waste chemicals from water.

Chemical engineers have developed an MOF that promises to greatly reduce energy consumption in the propylene-propane separation process.

This issue delves into process intensification, modularization in chemical processing, and takes a look at characterizing adsorbents for gas separations—plus much more.

Welcome to the second in a series of AIChE blog posts profiling process engineers, a diverse group of professionals spanning multiple industries and regions.

By targeting surfaces people touch frequently throughout the day, this self-cleaning material kills microbes to stop the spread of disease.

If you need to visualize a distribution or estimate probability, then a histogram in Excel is probably what you’re looking for.

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Welcome to the first in a series of AIChE blog posts profiling process engineers, a diverse group of professionals spanning multiple industries and regions.

Silver nanoparticles from clothing are ending up in waterways, but science is looking for ways to remove them.

This month, methods for order-of-magnitude cost estimation for shale-gas, optimized heat transfer of viscous fluids, the chemical industry in the Philippines, and more.

The two brothers' new app, Refyne, uses an interactive refinery game to teach basic chemical engineering concepts.

Chemical engineers' response to the addiction epidemic, cogeneration operation basics, an overview of Colombia's chemical industry, and more.

Chris discusses with Samir Mitragotri of Harvard the work presented in the 2017 Andreas Acrivos Award lecture.

2016 EWB grant recipients Donny Gross and 

The UConn grant recipients discuss their experiences in helping a town in Ethiopia develop its water resources.

Hear from conference chair Ian Glasgow about why you should attend this year's SW Process Technology Conference.

New liquid-metal membrane technology may help make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles viable, read this AIChE Journal article for FREE

Early-stage research and development projects sought—act now to meet the September 18 deadline.

Meet the 35 ChemEs honored in the AIChE 35 Under 35, brush up on adsorption, learn about condition monitoring, and much more.

Hear from conference board member Robert Collins what you can expect from this year's event.

I recently caught up with Harrie Duisters, Technology Director of OCI N.V., a

This month, results of the biennial salary survey of chemical engineers, ways to improve spreadsheet productivity, cybersecurity tips, and more.

Researchers at Swansea University have developed a new class of nanomaterials with tunable wettability that have wide ranging applications from antifouling to waterproofing.

Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel technique to recover nearly all water from brine waste.

The 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 chemical processing that

AIChE's Kristine Chin joined Henry Kister at the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting in San Antonio to discuss his book,

AIChE’s RAPID Manufacturing Institute officially launched on Monday, March 27, at the Spring Meeting and Global Congress in San Antonio.

A chat with Juben Chheda, programming co-chair for the Process Development Division at #AIChE Spring & #GCPS.

This month's CEP Magazine looks at managing a healthy and enjoyable work-life balance, along with features on safely servicing relief devices and on improving production scheduling for increased energy efficiency, among many other topics.

This month, CEP looks at compressors for ethylene plants, data science for chemical engineers, risk-based calibration, and much more.

A new tool has been developed to sniff out the flu: a hand-held breath monitor that detects the flu virus. 

The Saudi Local Section YPs organized a technical workshop on the topic of “Plant Design: Optimization and Feasibility Studies Utilizing AspenTech Software” on January 18, 2017.

This video tutorial from the LearnChemE YouTube series features an example of a dynamic feedforward control.

Saudi YPC organized an interactive workshop that demonstrated the “Importance of Process Safety and the Recognition of Incident Warning Si

One of the very latest screencasts from LearnChemE discusses the PID family of controllers, what they do, and how they work. The tutorial covers P-only, I-only, PI, D-only and PID.

Karen Fletcher, CEO of AIChE's RAPID Institute, which focuses on modular chemical process intensification, spoke yesterday at the Manufacturing USA Stakeholder Event at the White House.

Researchers at the University of Texas Dallas have developed a new way of capturing potentially harmful gasses in a me

Researchers at Rice University have recently published work that makes greener concrete a

The Saudi YPC organized a technical workshop on the topic of economic assessments for process engineers on November 15, 2016.

Nanotechnology advances continue to accelerate as researchers produce an increasing amount of incredible new materials and products.