Kent Harrington
Kent is a videographer and professional storyteller. He regularly blogs for AIChE on ChEnected. See his latest posts below. You can also follow Kent on twitter @harringtonkent.
ChEnected contributions
Building a Biofuel Game-Changer
Dr Sean Simpson, founder of LanzaTech, tells about an entrepreneurial wild ride, from his first idea to his deal to make jet fuel for Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Commercial Scale Garbage-to-Biofuel Facility Nearly Operational in Canada
Enerkem is readying its full-scale municipal waste-to-biofuels facility. It will convert wood, plastics, textiles, and other materials.
Sapphire Energy and Phillips 66 to Commercialize Algae Crude
A San Diego–based startup has just announced an agreement to commercialize its algae crude oil with industry giant Phillips 66.
Japan's First Offshore Floating Wind Turbine Begins Sending Power to the Grid
An experimental 2,000 kw floating wind turbine and connected substation now send wind power to the grid, signaling a breakthrough for Japan and its energy crisis.
Can Debbie Sterling's New Toy Company Create More Women Engineers?
Debbie Sterling loves engineering. But at Stanford, where she trained as an engineer, she felt vastly outnumbered by men. So he decided to even things out.
Scotch Whiskey, a Chemist, and the Birth of a New Industry
Before Martin Tangney, a trained researcher, got his biobutanol project off the ground, he had to learn to become an entrepreneur, not just a scientist.
Construction Underway on Shell's First FLNG Project
Samsung in South Korea is building Shell’s 488 meter, 600,000 dwt Prelude, the world’s largest, offshore, floating LNG facility, a totally new type of vessel.
Molten Salt Gives Concentrated Solar a Unique Advantage
Solana Station, constructed with six hours of molten storage that allows it to produce energy into the evening, shows off CSP's advantage over solar modules.
Single-Step Methane-to-Ethylene Process
The next transformation of the ethylene story might be written by a small San Francisco startup that is on the verge of commercializing a new way to turn methane — normally cheaper than ethane — into chemicals, jet fuel, and gasoline.
Patents Show Renewable-Energy Innovation Booming
A new report from MIT shows that the number of patents for renewable energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, outpacing fossil fuels.
World’s Largest Cellulosic Biofuels Plant Opens in Italy
First plant in the world built at commercial scale using enzymatic conversion is capable of producing 75 million liters of cellulosic ethanol a year.
New Jersey Plant Converts Natural Gas Directly into Drop-in Gasoline
Company claims its product would be competitive with petroleum-based gasoline even when crude oil is trading at $65 a barrel.
U.S. Is World Energy Top Dog in 2013
According to recent statistics, the US will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's top producer of petroleum and natural gas in 2013.
Landfill Methane Fuel Goes on Sale in California
In the most ambitious plan in the US to power vehicles with landfill gas, Clean Energy Fuels has started selling methane fuel at filling stations in California.
Chemical Engineer's Carbon-Capture Plant to Use CO2 as Raw Material
Austin-based Skyonic, a carbon-capture technology developer, just broke ground on the nation’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and mineralization plant.