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August 2012

Teenagers Illegally Enrich Uranium [FunnyBone]

August 31, 2012
August 31, 2012

Leave it to the Onion to combine two serious topics to create something outlandish and silly. Check out this hilarious fake news segment on illegal uranium enrichment by high school students.

Marcellus Shale Gas Wastewater Reuse and Recycle

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, October 3, 2012,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
EDT
This webinar provides background on how water is used for drilling and hydraulic fracturing and includes a review of hydraulic fracturing fluid composition and flowback and produced water quantity...

Jessica Gray

Jessica Gray is a chemical engineer with Eastern Research Group, Inc. She currently leads projects supporting EPA with evaluating air pollution control strategies and multi-media compliance for the oil and gas sector, including hydraulic fracturing. Her experience extends to evaluating petroleum refining industry compliance with the Clean Air Act. She also supports the development of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program for petroleum and natural gas systems. Ms. Gray has also supported projects in Europe to identify the potential risk from hydraulic...Read more

Sustainability in (Bio)Pharmaceuticals

August 30, 2012
August 30, 2012

This meeting will bring together thought-leaders from the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The meeting's goal is to allow engineers in these industries to assess processes aimed at improving sustainability in their organizations and to both justify their ROI and improve their performance.

Reformulated Diesel Means Cleaner Ship Emissions

August 29, 2012
August 29, 2012

A new fuel mixture has been developed to cut air pollution from cruise ships, oil tankers, and container ships burning traditional bunker oil, the cheapest and most highly polluting form of diesel fuel.

2012 Undergraduate Student Poster Competition

Join fellow students as they present posters on findings in sustainability, catalysis and reaction engineering, computing and process control, environmental aspects of chemical engineering, as well as food, pharmaceutical, bioengineering, fuels, petrochemicals, energy, materials, separations, among other topics.

Beacon Subject Database

View the full list of all issues of the Process Safety Beacon, with a key word index and a list of available languages.

AIChE's Sustainable Meeting Initiative

AIChE's Environmental Division and Institute for Sustainability have developed a series of sustainability goals for the 2012 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. These goals are designed to minimize generated waste as well as energy and water consumption resulting from Annual Meeting activities and can reduce incurred costs.

Startup to Convert Post-Consumer Waste into Sugars

August 28, 2012
August 28, 2012


Environmental Commitment Statement

Kicking off with the 2012 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, AIChE is undertaking a number of initiatives to reduce the environmental impact and improve the economic sustainability of AIChE’s Annual Meeting. Our Commitment to a Greener Meeting. Decreasing the amount of solid waste produced by the event...

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