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CEP: December 2020

Drones can easily perform many activities, including routine inspections of construction sites, tunnels, bridges, power lines, and energy plants — they are unrivaled in assessing and mitigating potential disasters. Indeed, this quality makes them ideal for use within the chemical process...

Features

Quickly Assess Distillation Columns

Estimate relative volatilities and identify energy-efficient configurations for multicomponent separations.

Industrial Process Control Systems: A New Approach to Education

Several important process control topics don’t receive much, if any, coverage in the traditional chemical engineering curriculum.

Is Your Invention Patentable?

An invention may be patentable if it is new, useful, and nonobvious.

Improving Soft Skills Through Mentorship

University mentorship programs that tap into alumni expertise produce benefits for students, mentors, employers, and the school itself.

Departments

Advanced Manufacturing Progress: Electromagnetic Process Heating for Efficiency and Electrificaton

The reactor and process streams of almost all continuous-flow, heterogeneous catalyzed processes require heating or cooling. Catalytic packed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors typically use energy-intensive indirect heating via fuel combustion or conventional heating via conduction, convection, and...

Books: December 2020

Explore our selection of new books for December 2020.

Calendars: December 2020

Learn about upcoming AIChE events.

Career Connection: Build Resilience to Bounce Back from Adversity

In the TV show Mad Men, lead character Don Draper observes, “Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.”

Catalyzing Commercialization: Prototyping A Discovery Pipeline for Enzymes Using Cell-Free Systems

Enzymes are key to unlocking modern--day biotechnology, whether as an additive in detergent, a step in a biosynthetic pathway, or a replacement for chemical catalysis.

Editorial: Waste Not, Want Not

It’s easy for consumers to focus on plastic packaging waste, but other environmental impacts are largely invisible to the average consumer.

Institute News: December 2020

President’s Message: A Test of Resilience; AIChE Announces Election Results; AIChE will Collaborate with Chemical Industry on STEM Scholars Initiative; New Platform Launched for 2021 Institute and Board Award Nominations — Due Feb. 15; Introducing Some of AIChE’s New Fellows; Neil Yeoman,...

AIChE Journal Highlight: New Research Directions Appear in the Third Futures Issue

Articles contributed to the third annual Futures Issue highlight the breadth of the chemical engineering field.

Process Safety Progress Highlight: Managing Process Safety During COVID-19 and Beyond

COVID-19 has necessitated transformational shifts in the way organizations in the chemical process industries (CPI) approach risk management and work practices.

New Products: December 2020

Browse our list of new products for December 2020.

CEP: News Update

Defining a Future that Runs on Drones; Artificial Mini Lungs to Study COVID-19; Researchers Use Vanillin to Create Unique Batteries; A Future for Portable, Wearable and Sustainable Electricity

Process Safety Beacon: Reactive Chemistry Incidents Can Happen Anywhere

Reactive chemistry incidents are a concern even if no intentional chemical reactions take place at your workplace. These incidents can happen almost anywhere.

Profile: How One Professor is Teaching Separations Science

Natacha Souto-Melgar prides herself on a unique teaching style developed during her years studying and teaching in Puerto Rico.

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