A new flying wind turbine by Mankani Power recently stole the show as ARPA-E showed off some of its projects. ARPA-E is the Department of Energy's investment program that invests in high-risk, potential high-gain energy projects.
During the poster session at the Spring Meeting and 8th Global Congress on Process Safety, we spoke with Anjana Meel, research and development engineer at Safer Systems, to discuss her research on spills. The research compares shrinking vs. non-shrinking spills to help process safety engineers deal with spills quickly and efficiently.
Dr. Eric C. D. Tan of NREL presented the current state-of-technology (SOT) sustainability assessments for two conversion platforms: biochemical and thermochemical biomass conversion technologies.
This Sunday the world will celebrate Earth Day once again, but if thoughts of the Earth's future cause you more pessimism than hope, then the new book Abundance may be exactly what you need! According to co-writers X-Prize Founder Peter Diamandis and journalist Steven Kotler, the future looks bright, and technology's rapid growth is the reason.
Dr. TJ Larkin of Larkin Communication Consulting took a moment after his talk at the 8th Global Congress on Process Safety to sit down with ChEnected to discuss communications strategies that allow good safety policies and initiatives to be effective.
The faster you are to market, the quicker you can begin to profit. At Zeton, they are fine-tuning the art of "just-in-time engineering," and Adam Whalley talked about how they shave weeks and even months off already tight schedules.
The Society for Biological Engineering is happy to announce the launch of the Daniel I. C. Wang Award for excellence in biochemical engineering. This award is to show great appreciation for Professor Wang's contributions in the classroom and beyond. He has helped to make vast progress in biochemical engineering as well as make technological innovations in bioprocessing.
Trey Morrison, chair of the 8th Global Congress on Process Safety & principal engineer at Exponent, discusses some of the highlights from the this year's event in Houston and shares an anecdote about an experience that helped lead him to a career in process safety.
Columbia professor Jingyue Ju, early co-inventor of the fluorescence energy transfer labeling technology that enabled the development of high-throughput DNA sequencers, finds himself in the middle of a patent protection lawsuit that will affect some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies.
During the poster session at the Spring Meeting in Houston, we spoke with Ryan Vano of Natural Composites Inc. He shared with us his company's work with coconut fibers and the composite materials it's making from this largely untapped natural resource.
This month, CEP Magazine's Back to Basics looks at minimizing the risks of flammable materials. Also covered this month are bulk solids segregation problems, Taiwan's chemical industry, and news about the latest in chemical engineering, from nanoglue to carbon management and a progress report on the recovery of Japan's chemical industry.
Joe Stough of IHS spoke with us at the Spring Meeting poster session in Houston to explain his company's research on better understanding how the best-performing companies are working towards improved safety in their facilities.
When a large, well established organization determines that it cannot internally provide the level or speed of innovation and new product development that it needs to survive and grow, it will often engage a small innovative start-up company to make up for the shortcoming.
The Featured YP for April is Lauren Deitch. Learn more about her background, her advice to other young professionals, and what she'd be doing if she hadn't chosen to study chemical engineering.
ChEnected sat down with Michael Dolan, senior vice president of ExxonMobil following his keynote address in Houston. Hear his thoughts on process safety as it relates to chemical engineers and the petroleum industry, including a discussion on the balancing of risk and the future challenges for chemical engineers and industry.
