AIChE Industry Interviews focus on technologies, trends and best practices in a variety of disciplines related to chemical engineering. The interviews are conducted with representatives from AIChE’s industry partners, are sponsored and reflect the sponsor company’s views opinions and insights.
Improving Process Safety Culture: A Chat with Reliance Industries’ YK Lodha
Learn how one company is transforming its process safety culture, and hear predictions about where process safety practices, technology, and related regulatory issues are headed.
Using Modeling to Develop Healthier and More Sustainable Food: A Chat with Schrödinger’s Jeffrey Sanders
Hear from a principal scientist at Schrödinger about how modeling is changing product development, and also hear his take on the trends and influences shaping the future of food processing.
Developing the Process Safety Community: A Chat with Ecolab’s Manju Parkhe
Hear from Ecolab’s global engineering leader about process safety trends in the Asia-Pacific region and about the company’s path to process safety leadership.
New Technologies Advancing Risk Management: A Chat with Enablon’s Alwin van Aggelen
Learn how Enablon is helping companies use predictive analytics and AI to help evaluate risk and improve risk management.
Using Synthetic Biology to Treat Disease: A Chat with Synlogic's Jim Collins
Learn about the work Synlogic is doing to develop synthetic biotics to treat diseases by harnessing engineered bacteria to carry out therapeutic tasks in a patient's body.
Lessons Learned on Process Safety: A Chat with Vale’s Eduardo Francisco
Learn about how Vale would like to help apply CCPS Risk-based Process Safety (RSPS) to the mining, minerals, and metals industries, and hear how the company continues to learn from the process safety lessons of a major incident.
The Impact of Process Safety: A Chat with Braskem’s Douglas Tavares de Araujo
Gaps in process safety can affect not only individual businesses and the communities around them, but also entire industries. Learn about how Latin American companies are working together to face process safety challenges and minimize risk.
An Interview with Petrobras’ Flaubert Matos Machado, Keynote at the 9th CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety
Flaubert Matos Machado is the General Manager for Strategy and Center of Excellence in Safety, Environment and Health at Petrobras and a keynote speaker at the 9th CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety. I spoke with Flaubert about his and Petrobras’ involvement with the conference.
Technology Developed at the University of Houston Could Advance Treatment of Lymphoma
The high-throughput, single-cell technology that merges artificial intelligence with a nanowell imaging platform could be a valuable new weapon in the battle against lymphoma.
Building a Process Safety Culture: a Chat with Acelen’s Celso Ferreira
Learn how Acelen has a close eye on process safety at every level of its operations, as it processes 300,000 barrels of oil each day at its Mataripe refinery.
How to Plan Successful Plant Shutdowns in the Chemical Industry
While costly in the short term, a well-run shutdown minimizes costs and pays off significantly in the long term by helping maintain proper quality and safety standards.
Digitization of Process Safety Management: a Chat with Enablon's Paul Tours
Learn how new technologies are helping companies to improve their risk management processes.
A Chat with Genomatica’s Christophe Schilling on Metabolic Engineering
ChEnected sat down with Christophe to talk about the future direction of metabolic engineering.
Management of Change and Pre-Startup Safety Review: A Chat with VisiumKMS’s Mike Bearrow
Learn how safety practices are evolving for chemical process and refining companies and the role that management of change and pre-startup safety review play.
A Chat with CPFD’s Peter Loezos about Fluidization
CPFD's vice president of operations discusses recent advances in fluidization as well as how the company is helping industry solve fluidization challenges.
A Chat with Shell's Joseph Powell about Process Development
Hear from chemical engineer Joseph Powell, Shell's Chief Scientist, about the growth of process development and the technology that will bring more change to the field.
A Chat with Twist Bioscience's Emily Leproust on DNA Synthesis
Twist Bioscience CEO, cofounder, and director Emily Leproust discusses the company's work and the promising future of synthetic biology.
A Chat with SwRI's Hsiang Yee Hoekstra about Process Development
Hear what areas of process development have the most growth potential, and get a preview of what you can expect from the all-virtual Process Development Symposium in June.
Solving Mixing and Simulation Challenges in Process Development: A Chat with John Thomas of M-Star Simulations
Learn how M-Star CFD's simulations help clients with complex flow and mixing challenges, and get a preview of their talk at the all-virtual Process Development Symposium.
Emergency Relief System Design: A Chat with Fauske's Ben Doup
Learn about industry's evolving approach to emergency relief system design and about some of the areas that present the greatest opportunities for design improvement.
PSM’s Role in Operational Excellence: A Chat with AcuTech’s David Moore
Understand how process safety management (PSM) fits into operational excellence (OE), and why PMS is so important in the process industries.
A Chat with Arbor Biosciences' Evelyn Eggenstein on Synthetic Biology
ChEnected sat down with Evelyn Eggenstein, Arbors Biosciences, prior to this year's Synthetic Biology conference (SEED).
Supporting the Future of Synthetic Biology: A Chat with Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Kelly Rose
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) helps to accelerate the growth of synthetic biology by supporting projects in the field that align with its mission.
Building Smart Cells Through Improved DNA Synthesis: A Chat with Synplogen’s Dr. Akihiko Kondo and Dr. Kenji Tsuge
Hear what the founders of Synplogen expect from the future of metabolic engineering and learn how the company is helping advance research in the field.
Reinventing Manufacturing Using Metabolic Engineering: A Chat with Manus Bio’s Christine Santos
Learn about the opportunities that metabolic engineering and industrial biotechnology offer manufacturers.
A Primer: How to Sample Gases and Volatile Liquids
Using simple, well-designed grab sampling systems and industry-standard best practices will help you provide the best product to your customers.
Preparing for the Quantum Era: A Conversation with Tennin Yan
Learn about the latest trends in quantum computing and understand what companies can do to become "quantum ready."
Xavier Godron on Making DNA Printing More Accessible
Learn about how DNA printers work and how they are poised to revolutionize synthetic biology.
Realizing the Potential for Biomanufacturing with DMC’s Made to Scale™ Technology
Hear from Kathryn Sheridan (Sustainability Consult) and Matt Lipscomb (DMC Biotechnologies) as they discuss biotechnology's impact, challenges, and opportunities.
Developing Genetically Engineered Brewing Strains with Lallemand
Hear from researcher Bailey Carignan about Lallemand’s specialized work, genetic engineering’s potential, and about improving consumers' understanding of genetically engineered microbes.
Michael Köpke on Synthetic Biology and Carbon-Negative Biomanufacturing
Read how LanzaTech’s technology transforms carbon emissions from industry and converts them into the chemical building blocks for commercial and consumer goods.
Direct Air Capture’s Role in the Energy Transition
Jesse McManus, a Carbon Capture Scale-up Engineer at ExxonMobil, talks about the role of direct air capture (DAC) in attaining net zero emissions, and discusses his work in this important area.
Purdue’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Launches Research Area Endowments
Ten initial endowments will support innovative research in a variety of disciplines that will advance chemical engineering. Four of these endowments will be introduced at the Annual Meeting.
David Moore of AcuTech Reflects on the CCPS Global Summit on Process Safety
Hear what attendees learned to improve their facilities’ safety, learn about how one Japanese firm has gained from implementing CCPS's Risk-based Process Safety model, and more.
New Technologies Advancing Risk Management: A Chat with WK Enablon’s Sean Wilson and Alwin van Aggelen
Learn why dynamic management of barriers and safeguards is so critical, and understand where many companies go wrong with process hazard analysis.
Bio-Manufacturing and the Next Wave of Innovation: A Chat With Inscripta’s Richard Fox
Richard Fox discusses overcoming barriers to progress in synthetic biology and biomanufacturing, looks at where the next wave of innovation will come from, and more.
Whycomm President Martín Fernández Discusses the Evolution of Process Safety and the 10th CCPS LACPS
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Whycomm and reflects their views, opinions, and insights.
Prolific Machines CEO Deniz Kent Discusses Using Light to Enable Better Biomanufacturing
Find out how optogenetics is providing new ways to control cells, allowing researchers to move away from the limitations and challenges of molecular inputs.
What ExxonMobil Has Learned (So Far) from Our Direct Air Capture Pilot
Lead process researcher Jun Shi talks about her work on ExxonMobil’s direct air capture pilot and looks at what’s ahead for DAC and other solutions that address climate change.
Eduardo M. Francisco on the Important Role of Process Safety Management in the Mining Industry
Hear from Vale's Eduardo Francisco about the important role of process safety management in the mining industry.
Julian Jude on Synthesizing a New Era in Functional Genomics
Julian Jude of Twist Bioscience talks about how synthetic DNA has changed genomic research and about how recent developments that will fuel progress.