Adding to the list of potential ill effects of hydraulic fracturing or fracking which include ground water contamination and enhanced seismic activity (earthquakes), the generation of radioactive waste becomes the latest topic of debate. When water (along with sand and chemicals) is used to crack open these formations to release the hydrocarbons, radium is also displaced to the surface along with the water.
The webinar is from modeling and optimization experts at Idaho National Laboratory, Humberto Garcia and Richard Boardman. Their work has focused on topics ranging from biofuels to hybrid nuclear...
Dr. Richard Boardman oversees the INL Clean Energy Platform for Integrated Energy Systems development. His staff develops computational tools and test facilities supporting the design, assessment, integration, optimization, and control of industry-scale hybrid energy systems. Hybrid energy systems operate in a closely-coupled, dynamic manner to enhance the systems technical, economic, and environmental performance. Boardman is also responsible for coordination of DOE Laboratories, government, universities, regional stakeholders, and industry for this...Read more
Humberto Garcia received a doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a minor in Mechanical Engineering, from PennState. He worked for Argonne National Laboratory before joining the Idaho National Laboratory. As the group lead for dynamic systems integration, optimization, and resilient controls, he leads the development and use of systems theories and applications, including physical systems modeling, simulation, control, optimization, and integration; dynamic hybrid energy systems; resilient and predictive monitoring and controls for cyber-physical systems; anomaly...Read more
With a background in synthetic chemistry and chemical engineering, Dr. Dom Hebrault worked for 12+ years in chemical development in the pharmaceutical industry. He built his experience around the development and scale-up of safe, green, and reliable multi-step synthesis of fine chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. As a result of the acquired practical experience in real time spectroscopy and process safety evaluation, Dom started at Mettler Toledo nine years ago as Technology Consultant, and then became Principal Technologist. He's been invited to speak at ≥ 20...Read more
What’s a hydrogel? How do chemical engineers design mixers for viscous fluids such as chocolate? These and other questions were answered at the AIChE-sponsored booth at the recent 3rd USA Science and Engineering Festival (USASEF) in Washington, D.C.
If you haven't toured the Georgia Iron Works Plant, sign up early as the tour has room for only 15 people. Plus we'll gather for sandwiches after the tour...Read more
A modeling language provides a powerful yet convenient interface to number-crunching "solvers" of large-scale optimization problems. But what is the interface to the modeling language? It...
Robert Fourer's career has been devoted to the theory and practice of optimization, going back to the 1970s when he worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research and studied Operations Research at Stanford University. He was a member of the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences faculty at Northwestern University for over three decades, during which time he participated in the invention of the AMPL modeling language while on sabbatical at Bell Laboratories. In 2002 he co-founded...Read more
We present a stochastic optimal control model to optimize gas network inventories in the face of system uncertainties. The model captures detailed network dynamics and operational constraints and...
