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March 2020

Chemical Process Electrification: An Overview

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, August 26, 2020,
1:00pm to 2:00pm
EDT
With more solar and wind energy being produced, sustainable electricity supply is constantly increasing. This could offer great opportunities for the chemical industry. The supply of sustainable...

Exploring Electrophoresis Using COMSOL Multiphysics

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, June 17, 2020,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
EDT
This hands-on webinar will use COMSOL Multiphysics® to prepare and explore simulations of the four basic modes of electrophoresis: zone electrophoresis, moving-boundary electrophoresis,...

Cornelius F. Ivory

Cornelius F. Ivory earned his BS in chemical engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1974 and his PhD at Princeton University in 1980, followed by a year as a USRA Visiting Scientist in the Bioseparations group at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. At Washington State University, his research group develops new separation technologies and protocols at the micro-, meso-, and macroscales and adapts these technologies to various platforms.

His group has done extensive modeling in chromatography, electrophoresis, biomass pyrolysis, and mass spectrometry, especially using COMSOL...Read more

Risk Reduction through Quantitative Risk Assessment

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, May 13, 2020,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
EDT
Why is a Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) conducted and how does it result in risk reduction? What are the steps involved and is there an approach that qualifies risk reduction to better manage and...

Marcel Amorós-Martí

Mr. Amorós-Martí’s experience consists of a diverse range of industries from chemical and petrochemical to oil and gas and utilities. As Lead of the California office, he is skilled in both the technical and project management aspects of process safety and loss prevention. Mr. Amorós-Martí expertise includes pressure relief and flare systems design for large chemical and petrochemical companies around the globe and in the United States.

He specializes in evaluating the risk of chemical, petroleum, and pharmaceutical process facilities, including: identifying hazardous scenarios,...Read more

Teach the Geek to Speak

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
Engineers have a lot of technical expertise, but they often struggle to present it in a way that is palatable to audiences, specifically audiences outside their technical expertise. In this webinar,...

Neil Thompson

Neil Thompson is an engineer, author, and entrepreneur. He spent several years as a product development engineer in the medical device industry. He liked his work. What he didn't like? Public speaking.

As a project lead, he had to give monthly project status presentations in front of senior management, and he was terrible at it. Over time, though, he improved, taking everything he learned and turning it into an online public speaking course, Teach the Geek to Speak. He now helps people like himself, engineers and scientists, with turning their knowhow into effective presentations....Read more

ICOSSE 2020 Session Descriptions

Below are descriptions for all session topics covered at ICOSSE 2020.

Milad Abolhasani

Milad Abolhasani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. degree (2014) from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining NC State University, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT (2014-2016).

Dr. Abolhasani leads a diverse research group that studies flow chemistry strategies tailored toward accelerated development and manufacturing of...Read more

Franklin Chang-Diaz

Franklin Chang Díaz was born April 5, 1950, in San José, Costa Rica, to the late Mr. Ramón A. Chang Morales and Mrs. María Eugenia Díaz Romero. At the age of 18, having completed his secondary education at Colegio de La Salle in Costa Rica, he left his family for the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a rocket scientist and an astronaut.

Arriving in Hartford Connecticut in the fall of 1968 with $50 dollars in his pocket and speaking no English, he stayed with relatives, enrolled at Hartford Public High School where he learned English and graduated again in the spring...Read more

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