Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) SBE is a global technological community that promotes the integration of engineering with biology and realize its benefits through bioprocessing, biomedical, and biomolecular applications. SBE provides opportunities for interaction of engineers and scientists, develops products and services bring value to the broad biological engineering community, and infuses awareness of biological engineering among all functions and activities of AIChE.
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division (FP & BE) The FP&BE division coordinates AIChE's activities in the fields of food, pharmaceuticals, and bioengineering.
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2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety April 22-26, 2018 Orlando World Center MarriottThe AIChE Spring Meeting is the year’s key technical conference for practicing chemical engineers. A wide range of subjects relevant to the current needs of industry is covered.
2017 AIChE Annual Meeting October 29 - November 3, 2017Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MNHilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MNRegister by September 18th for Early Bird Rates! The AIChE Annual Meeting is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth.
Biomanufacturing for Chemical Engineers eLearning (online) CourseWorking in a biopharmaceutical or vaccine company? Review the unit operations used to manufacture biological products with this online course.
Cato Laurencin: Doing a World of Good In this episode of the Foundation’s Doing a World of Good podcast, you'll meet Cato Laurencin who talks about his work in regenerative engineering. Listen on the Giving site or subscribe in iTunes.
Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers eLearning (online) CourseWhat chemical engineers working in design, operations and other support functions need to know about biotechnology.
Planning a Safe Release of Genetically Modified Organisms August 3, 2017How do you plan a safe release of a genetically modified organism? And how do you build a plan B, or deal with an accidental release?
Michael McAlpine Discusses Upcoming Bioengineering & Translational Medicine Conference August 14, 2017Michael discusses 3D printing of functional materials and devices, the subject of his upcoming presentation at the conference.
AIChE 35 Under 35: Bioengineering August 10, 2017With support from the AIChE Foundation, AIChE and its Young Professional Committee (YPC) are honoring 35 notable young professionals under the age of 35. In this post, read...
Bioseparations: Principles, Applications, and Scale-up Public (classroom) CourseThis course focuses on the principles, applications, and scale-up of bioseparations processes, which are used for bioproducts in the pharmaceutical,...
Metabolic Engineering 12 June 24-28, 2018The Westin Grand Munich, Munich, GermanyThe Metabolic Engineering Conference is the world-leading conference to share premium developments and achievements in the field. The theme of this year's conference is systems metabolic engineering for superior bio-production. The conference is chaired by Christoph Wittmann and Oskar Zelder.
Hybrid Cell Culture Models for Efficient Process Development Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 12, 2015Cell culture processes are dynamic systems governed by a large number of influential and highly interacting process variables. Despite the stringent...
Effect of Fast Pyrolysis Conditions on the Biomass Solid Residues at High Temperatures (1000-1400C) Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Fast pyrolysis of wood and straw was conducted in a drop tube furnace (DTF) and compared with the experimental work on the wire-mesh reactor (WMR) to...
Biogas Production Trend at Various Temperature Conditions and Methane Enrichment Using Solvent Absorption Method Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Depletion of the fossil fuels and their prices are going up therefore it is the need of the hour to find out alternative renewable energy resources...
Hydrolysis of Ddg Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Liquid hot water (LHW) extraction was used as a pretreatment method to separate the hemicellulose fraction from dried distiller’s grain with solubles...
The Application of Two-Step Linear Temperature Program to Thermal Analysis for Monitoring the Lipid Induction of Nostoc Sp. KNUA003 in Large Scale Cultivation Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Recently, microalgae was considered as a renewable energy for fuel production because its production is nonseasonal and may take place on nonarable...
Process Simulation of Biogas to Renewable Liquid Fuels Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Biogas is a product of anaerobic digestion of waste organic sources such as animal manure, food wastes and pretreated lignocellulosic biomass. Biogas...
Structural Characterization of Biomass Derived Biochar Using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Biochar was previously considered as a low-valued solid fuel, which is the side product from biomass pyrolysis process. However, recent researches...
Hydrolysis Kinetics of Woody Biomass: Surface Renewal Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Woody biomass is known to be composed of three major components: cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose. Cellulose is the most stable natural polymer in...
Lipid-Polymeric Hybrid Nanoparticle Based Nicotine Vaccine: Size Matters Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Lipid-polymeric hybrid nanoparticle based nicotine vaccine: size matters Zongmin Zhao ǂ , Yun Hu, Reece Hoerle, Meaghan Devine, Chenming Zhang...
Controlling Mechanical Properties and Dissolution Rate of Strip Films Loaded with Griseofulvin Nanoparticles Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Polymer strip films have been demonstrated to be an ideal delivery form for poorly water-soluble drugs. Specifically for active pharmaceutical...
Investigation of Dissolved Lignin in Autohydrolysis Liquor Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Autohydrolysis (water, temperature, pressure) pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is a sustainable unit operation that effectively reduces...
Estimation of Energy Consumption and Production in Woody Biomass Pulverization with a Multiple Tube Vibration Mill Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Scale-up estimation of woody biomass pulverization with newly developed multiple tube vibration mill (MTVM) was carried out. Pulverization ability in...
Process Modeling and Simulation for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing of Diphenhydramine Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (CPM) has been recognized as an increasingly promising multidisciplinary research domain, addressing the...
Kinetics of the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Papermaking Pulp Fines Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Waste fibers from papermaking are often rejected due to quality and production issues. Since the rejected fibers also known as 'fines' are discharged...
Model of Ink Particle Separation in Column Flotation Deinking Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Column flotation is a novel technique of separation of hydrophobic particles from a suspension. An experimental investigation of column flotation as...
Effect of Redox Properties of LaCoO3 Perovskites on Production of Lactic Acid from Cellulosic Biomass Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015Effect of Redox Properties of LaCoO 3 Perovskites on Production of Lactic Acid from Cellulosic Biomass Xiaokun Yang , Lisha Yang, Hongfei Lin *...
IQ Consortium Enabling Technologies for Pharma Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015The International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in Pharmaceutical Development (IQ) is a technically-focused organization of pharmaceutical...
Lightweight Functional Material from Sustainable Resources: Lignin-Soy Aerogels Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Recent development in functional materials using natural polymers has triggered a lot of interest in applications that required both lightweight and...
Functionalization of Pyrolyzed Biomass and Their Characterizations Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Carbonaceous materials are commonly applied as an effective reinforcement in polymer composites. However, current materials such as carbon fibre and...
A DFT Study of Methanol Reforming on C- and N-Doped TiO2 (110) Rutile Surfaces Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015: Biomass reforming is a sustainable method for hydrogen gas production. Hydrogen gas is an increasingly desirable clean burning fuel source that is...
Implementation of Advanced Multilayer Plant-Wide Control Architecture into a Direct Compaction Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Process Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing provides an appropriate platform where feed-forward and feedback control strategies, including necessary...
Investigation of Nanostructural Characteristics of Lignin-ABA Block Copolymer Aggregates Leading to Use of Micelles As Nanoreactors for Lignin Conversion Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Nanostructural self-assembly of lignin derivatives incorporated in polyethylene oxide-block-polypropylene oxide-block-polyethylene oxide (PEO-b-PPO-b...
A Quantitative Determination of the Specific and Nonspecific Interaction Forces Between Carbohydrate-Binding Module of CBH1/Cel7A and Lignocellulosic Biomass Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Introduction Enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass has been considered as one of the key steps in the biochemical conversion of cellulosic...
Developing a Strategy for Constructing Modular Biosensors Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015The rapidly increasing toolbox of synthetic biology has allowed numerous advances in the engineering of metabolic pathways. One tool that is largely...
Making Escherichia coli Grow on Methanol Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015The quest for using methanol as a substrate to produce useful metabolites such as commodity chemicals, chemical precursors, biopolymers,...
Clone and Media Selection in Mab Biosimilar Process Development Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015In the biopharmaceutical sector the topic of biosimilars remains a highly controversial issue. Until 2014, eleven different biosimilar active...
From Metabolic Engineering to Metabolomics and Back Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Metabolic engineering is a field where the level of a specific metabolite is quite obviously a very important thing, because that metabolite is the...
Technoeconomic Optimization for Green Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing of Analgesics Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (CPM) has recently emerged as a promising alternative to the currently dominant batch production methods...
Tools for Engineering Non-Growth Metabolism Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Stationary phase metabolism that is not carbon-limited is ideal for metabolic engineering. Without cell growth, feedstocks can be efficiently...
Effects of Endocrine Disrupters on Adipose Metabolism and Inflammation Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Contamination of the environment with organic pollutants has emerged as a significant public health concern due to the pervasive nature of these...
Changes in Lignin Structure after Autohydrolysis Pretreatment Analyzed By Quantitative NMR Techniques Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015The economic success of a lignocellulosic biorefinery is highly sensitive to the final price at which the lignin residue can be sold for at market...
Extractives of Douglas-fir and their Implications for Fermentation Based Biofuel Production Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) has been investigated as a feedstock for biofuel processes due to its abundance in western North American...
To Label or Not to Label: Addressing America's Genetically Modified Organism Policy Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 8, 2015Biotechnology in the United States has the ability to genetically modify organisms in order to better serve farmers and consumers. However, these...
Biobased Materials (Plant Proteins) As Alternatives for Suspected Carcinogens and Other Hazardous Chemicals in Large-Scale Manufacturing Processes Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Biobased Materials (Plant Proteins) as Alternatives for Suspected Carcinogens and other Hazardous Chemicals in Large-Scale Manufacturing Processes
Simultaneous Biofuel and Electricity Generation Using CO2-Neutral Microbial Fuel Cell Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012Limited availability and the environmental impacts from fossil fuels require that we find alternative energy sources that are renewable and safe. The...
The Development of An Advanced Biofuel Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 3, 2012The Development of An Advanced Biofuel
Optimization and Characterization of the Different Fractions of Biocrude Oil (BCO) From Waste Biomass Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 20, 2011The increasing demand for heightened energy security, the sky rocketing prices of oil and the concerns over escalating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
Dynamic Design Space As An Integrated Component of Quality by Design Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The Food and Drug Administration requires from pharmaceutical companies the development of extensive knowledge databases regarding the control of the...
Modeling a Reactive Crystallization with a Reduced Population Balance Equation for Dissolution and Growth to Control Critical Quality Attributes Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Modeling has always been a powerful weapon in a chemical engineer’s arsenal. Use of modeling should be considered a key piece in the application of...
The Role of Cellulose Accessibility On Enzymatic Saccharification of Lignocelluloses Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011So much research has been dedicated to understand the effects of various factors on enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocelluloses. It has been understood...
A Novel Reactive Distillation Approach for Producing 1,3-Dihydroxyacetone From Glycerol Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Glycerol is a viable renewable feedstock that has emerged as a consequence of triglyceride conversion to biodiesel. In addition to glycerol...
The Effects of Carbon-to-Oxygen Ratio Upon Supercritical Water Reformation for Hydrogen Production Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The Effects of Carbon-to-Oxygen ratio upon Supercritical Water Reformation for Hydrogen Production Jared Bouquet 1 , Ryan Tschannen 2 , Aaron...
Model-Based Characterisation of Organic and Aqueous Tablet Film Coating Processes: Parameter Estimation and Risk Management Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Tablet coating is an important processing step in the pharmaceutical industry in which tablets are coated with an aqueous or organic film coating for...
Study On Thermo-Bio-Chemical Biorefinery: Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass After Hydrolysis Pre-Treatment Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Study on Thermo-Bio-Chemical Biorefinery: Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass After Hydrolysis Pre-treatment Rene Garrido, Nydia Ruiz-Felix,...
QbD In Dry Powder Inhaler Development Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Summary Developing products comprising un-bound fine cohesive powders throws up significant challenges. Dry powder inhalers present a prime example...
Incorporating Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods for Quality by Design Framework for Exploring Design Space of a Fermentor Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011In the Quality by Design (QbD) framework, there is a significant emphasis on the robust characterization of manufacturing processes and prospectively...
Dissolution Testing of Prednisone and Salicylic Acid Calibrator Tablets At Different Tablet Locations Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Dissolution testing is routinely carried out in the pharmaceutical industry to determine the rate of dissolution of solid dosage forms. This test is...
Biodiesel Production by Transesterification Using Heterogeneous Base Catalyst and Effect of Co-Solvent Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Biodiesel production by Transestrification using heterogeneous base catalyst and effect of co-solvent Arun Kumar Gupta a , Goutam Deo b Department of...
Scaling up Strategy for Continuous Powder Mixing Process Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Scaling up strategy for continuous powder mixing process Yijie Gao, Fernando Muzzio and Marianthi G. Ierapetritou Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical...
Towards Developing Anaerobic Digestion Based Biorefinery – Research On Food Wastes As Feedstock Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a proven technology for waste treatment. However, as the organic material becomes more valuable and being treated as...
Optimization of a Wild-Type Mesophilic Clostridium Species That Produces Butanol Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Optimization of a wild-type mesophilic Clostridium Species that produces butanol Fengxue Xin, Sandhi Eko Bramono, and Jianzhong He* (*Email:...
Challenges, Opportunities, and Scientific Aspects of Implementing PAT In Biopharmaceuticals Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011As an essential milestone for both the cGMP for the 21 st Century and the recent pharmaceutical quality regulatory initiatives (Q8/Q9/Q10), the 2004...
Managing Uncertainty In Design Space Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Design of experiments, followed by numeric and graphical optimization, is frequently used by engineers to optimize a process, and to define a design...
Green and High Efficient Enzyme Hydrolysis Process for Sweet Sorghum Bagasse Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011In order to improve enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency, several approaches including liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment, adding surfactant, magnetic...
Scale and Bioreactor Design Translation for Rocking Bag Bioreactors Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Scale and Bioreactor Design Translation for Rocking Bag Bioreactors. The translations of scale and bioreactor designs for disposable rocking bag...
Simultaneous Extracellular Polymeric Substance (EPS) and Lipid Production by Activated Sludge Via Fermentation of Glucose Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The use of activated sludge microflora to convert sugars, derived from the hydrolysis of lignocellulose biomass, into lipids for biofuel production...
Use of Single-Use Technologies In Downstream Purification of Mabs - A Case Study Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The employment of single-use technologies in the downstream processing of biologics in general and monoclonal antibodies in particular is gaining...
The Influence of Crystals, Particles and Powders On the Performance of Dry Powder Inhalers Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011This presentation focuses on some key developments in understanding the relationships between the governing properties of DPIs and how these properties can be harnessed to develop designer formulation systems for DPIs.
Effect of Steam Explosion On Degradability and Accessiblity of Loblolly Pine In Bioethanol Applications Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Abstract Among the various biomass pretreatment methods, steam explosion is one of the most widely used due to its cost-effective disruption of the...
Biofuels Manufacturing: From Feedstocks to Manufacturing and End-Product Quality Control Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Biofuels quality is related to the inherent of feedstock materials (RMs) and operating conditions used in their production. However to be used as...
Design Space Definition Using a Variational Bayes' Approximation Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The design space may be interpreted as the constrained region of the key manufacturing parameters space which provides assurance of quality of a drug...
Quality by Design for DPIs -A Regulatory Perspective Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Inhalation Powders have become an important dosage form in developing products for delivery to the lungs. Since the approval of the first DPI in the...
BIOCORE - On a Paradigm for the Design and Synthesis of Real-Life Biorefineries Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011As oil is a fast depleting resource (BP, 2010), much is expected by the production of biofuels as valid options to replace fossil-oil transportation...
Effects of Reaction Conditions On the Acid-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Miscanthus Dissolved In An Ionic Liquid Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Miscanthus, a perennial grass, is an attractive biofuel feedstock compared with corn and poplar due to its high energy yield per hectare and low...
A Data-Driven Modeling Approach Using the Design of Dynamic Experiments Methodology In Calculating the Design Space of Batch Pharmaceutical Processes Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The development of fundamental models for fed-batch pharmaceutical processes range from very challenging to almost impossible as not all the inner...
Aging of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis-Oil and Process Strategies to Produce Stable Pyrolysis Oils Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Fast pyrolysis bio-oils are unstable due to a variety of factors, the most important being the high concentration of reactive oxygen-functionalized...
Incremental Disassembling of Woody Biomass and Production of Biochemicals Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Woody biomass is a reliable renewable source of raw materials for energy and chemicals. Woody biomass is structurally composed of cellulose, lignin,...
An Anaerobic Bacterial Treatment of Corn Stover to Prepare a Biorefining Feedstock Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Anaerobic Bacterial Treatment of Corn Stover to Prepare a Biorefining Feedstock James MacLellan, Zhengbo Yue, Robert Kraemer, Wei Liao* Department of...
Change of Structure of Corncob with Dilute Acid and Lime Pretreatment and a Potential Process for Xylose Co-Production of Cellulosic Ethanol Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011Degree of polymerization (DP) of cellulose is considered an important factor to effect on the conversion of Lignocellulose. The higher DP of...
Bioconversion of Brown Seaweed Into Mixed Ketones Through the Carboxylate Platform Processing Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingOctober 19, 2011The Carboxylate Platform, also known as the MixAlco TM process, is an acidogenic fermentation process using mixed culture inoculums, which offers...