Dr. Madhav Acharya currently serves as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), where he helps prepare innovative energy technologies for transition from the lab to the market. His focus at ARPA-E includes conversion of renewable energy into carbon neutral liquid fuels, low carbon cements and direct methane conversion to hydrogen and carbon. He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a M.S. in Sustainability Management from American University.Read more
Carbon capture (CCS) has become an important economic, industrial and environmental issue. However, there are technical aspects you may not understand because they typically aren’t covered in...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 11:00am EDT to Thursday, April 21, 2022, 5:30pm EDT
The East Tennessee AIChE local section has asked us to promote the upcoming eChemExpo event to be held in Kingsport, TN. Originally scheduled for 2020, then re-scheduled to spring 2022, it will now be held April 20-21, 2022. Kingsport is just over the Virginia Tennessee state line off of I-81 at...Read more
While grab sampling can be a dangerous and hazardous process for both operators and their surrounding environment, too often safety takes a back seat to other day-to-day considerations. If this...
Matt Dixon began his career with Swagelok in 1998 as an engineering co-op student. The next six years, he worked as an assembly, welding, and manufacturing engineer. He supported the production of high-volume fittings and various hose product lines and the designing and building of assembly and test equipment.Read more
Adsorption is widely used to separate and purify gases. To select an adsorbent for a given separation, and to design and optimize a process, each material must be thoroughly characterized. This white paper introduces the key performance parameters, including working capacity, heats or enthalpies of adsorption, and selectivity, and describes the experimental techniques typically used to determine the gas adsorption properties of porous adsorbents. Measurement pitfalls and the advantages and disadvantages of each technique are also discussed.
