The 5-year, $40 million investment will propel research, development, and demonstrations (RD&D) of advanced process technologies to enable more resilient, lower cost, and reduced energy and carbon footprint manufacturing in the process industries.
On March 15, the U.S. Department of Energy announced two major Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) totaling over $900 million for RD&D projects driving industrial decarbonization efforts. With the RAPID Manufacturing Institute's increased focus on industrial decarbonization of the process...
During the 2nd Annual ChemE Cube Competition, the RAPID team announced the theme for next year's competition as Direct Air Capture . As part of the competition, students will design, build, operate, and compete a 1-cubic foot Direct Air Capture unit, addressing the key goal of removing carbon...
NEW YORK, NY — The RAPID Manufacturing Institute® — an entity of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and one of the Manufacturing USA Institutes — has been awarded $9.5 million by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct three...
After a successful pilot in 2021 in Boston, RAPID is proud to announce that we will be hosting an extended pilot ChemE Cube Competition taking place November 14, 2022 in Phoenix, AZ. We invite any undergraduate student team to participate.
RAPID DEPLOY: Process Electrification will take place April 9-10, 2022 in San Antonio, TX - just prior to the AIChE Spring Meeting . This invite-only event will focus on modular technology deployment for process electrification, specifically around process heating, electrochemical processing and...
