Energy (Sustainability & Environment)

This issue, a spotlight on professional development, including getting recruiters' attention, building a career in science policy, discovering your career path, and more.

Walton is being honored for groundbreaking research on the understanding and control of hydrolytic and chemical stability of metal-organic frameworks, and for its transformative impact on industrial gas.

Taking steps to reduce the urban heat island (UHI) effect makes sense for both sustainability and quality of life. Learn more about the effect and what steps can be taken.

The Hydrogen Economy Program was created to give participance both confidence and competence throughout the entire hydrogen supply chain.

Read how LanzaTech’s technology transforms carbon emissions from industry and converts them into the chemical building blocks for commercial and consumer goods.

Largely untapped renewable resources such as tidal energy, barrage systems, and geothermal energy might be the U.S.'s best chance for greater sustainability and energy independence.

This issue, check out a special section on sustainability, including new paths towards sustainability for chemical engineering, significant sustainability policy updates, solar power storage news, and much more.

Dr. Shankar is being recognized for his contributions to industry-academia partnership and technical research in direct air capture and carbon utilization pathways to fuels and chemicals.

Chemical engineers often scale up processes, but there are times when numbering up a process could be more effective and economically beneficial.

Low-cost catalyst is a major breakthrough, opening up possibility of producing fuel for naval ships at scale from seawater. 

A new super-white paint formulation can reflect 98% of solar radiation, which helps keep buildings cool and reduces energy consumption and expenses.

A new and inexpensive catalyst makes it possible to generate hydrogen through water splitting, providing an effective means of storage for renewable energy.

Meet this physicist and mathematician turned chemical engineer, and learn what drove him to pursue chemical engineering.

October 8th (10/08) was chosen in reference to the atomic weight of hydrogen, 1.008.

Madhu Khanna discusses cellulosic biofuels, their economic and sustainability benefits and tradeoffs, and what's needed to see cellulosic biofuels thrive.

Fuel cells continue to be a hot topic, and as hydrogen fuel cell technology advances, we are also seeing fuel cell alternatives.

Dow's R&D Director for Industrial Solutions shares a preview of the upcoming 2019 Process Development Symposium, where he will deliver the keynote address.

On April 2, AIChE formally unveiled its new Center for Hydrogen Safety with a slate of sessions held at the 2019 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in New Orleans, LA.

Sharon Beshouri, President of Shell Global Solutions (U.S.), Inc., has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award. She set the stage for the conference with her welcome keynote lecture entitled “Embracing Transitions Today: Assuring a Robust Future Tomorrow.”

The latest issue showcases the current thinking related to the reduction of carbon emissions, the utilization of CO2 that can ameliorate its presence and provide useful products, and storage options.

As part of our celebration of AIChE's 110th year, Pat McGrath of ARPA-E shares his predictions for chemical engineering's next 25 years.

This series looks at the future of chemical engineering, revisiting past predictions for the profession and pairing them with current predictions for the next 25 years.

Condensing natural gas into a liquid, nonflammable form through natural gas upgrading is key to expanding natural gas production.

AIChE member Wendy Young spoke with us for a few minutes at a recent conference to speak with us about some of the topics on her mind as a chemical engineer.

A host of innovations across a wide range of areas show potential for a brighter future. Read more about them here.

A microbe's ability to ingest methane opens the doors for potentially producing various product precursors in an environmentally friendly way.

As efficient as current platinum-based catalysts, the nanostructured composite material sidesteps costly platinum.

This new method generates hydrogen from methane and electricity, with near-zero energy loss. The discovery is a boon for hydrogen-powered vehicles.

Transparent solar panels that are efficient enough to be practical have been elusive, but no longer.

Inspired by insects’ compound eyes, researchers at Stanford University have developed a new solar cell that could open the doors to a new generation of advanced photovoltaics.

The North Sea is the most prolific location in the world for building offshore windfarms.

A newly developed solar cell prototype is capable of capturing nearly all energy from the solar spectrum and could potentially be the world’s most solar cell, operating at 44.5% efficiency.

Still dominating home electronics, lithium batteries are constantly pushing into new markets.

Researchers at Penn State have engineered a strain of bacteria that is the key to converting methane to electricity.

Battery storage is starting to replace traditional gas peaker plants by replacing diesel powered generation on small islands.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned by the U.S.

A discovery that improves on a commonly used catalytic reaction used to break down methane could lead to significant energy savings and pollution reduction.

California is the only state in the country coping with too much solar power, and it's a problem that's still getting worse as each new utility-scale solar farm is built

Two weeks ago, Dr. Art Rosenfeld, the embodiment of energy efficiency, died in his home at the age of 90, not far from the Berkeley lab where he worked for over forty years.

The Paris climate agreement is the world’s best effort yet to ward off the existential threat of climate change.

Low carbon jet fuel just got a big boost.

London's new mayor Sadiq Khan just put fifty electric buses on the streets to help shrink a toxic cloud blighting one of Europe's most magisterial cities.

After Hawaii killed a deal that included a new LNG import facility and its conjoined twin, a natural gas power plant; and a leading Canadian tar sands producer, Suncor Energy, voluntarily decided t

Two weeks ago reporters and fans joined Elon Musk and chief technical officer J.B.

Matt Scullin plans to corner a big chunk of the energy market. He's not an oil or gas guy, or a renewables guy.

Inspired by vitamin B2, researchers at Harvard have discovered a entire new class of high-performing organic molecules that can be used in flow batteries to store electricity from solar and wind power.

Many energy startups claim that their new software, gadget, or platform will change the way the world uses energy, but Robert Fares, writing for

Developer Deepwater Wind is on the verge of launching the first offshore wind farm in the US. Later this fall, when its five turbines finally power up off the coast of Rhode Island, it wi

Apple and a select group of US companies are starting to sell renewable power to the electricity grid, a domain traditionally controlled by monopoly utilities and third party power plants. 

Tidal power developers say 2016 is shaping up to be the new technology's coming-of-age year, with projects in France, Scotland, and Canada successfully ramping up.

Low-temperature wasted heat is generally seen as an unusable byproduct of manufacturing and power generation, but researchers at Yale’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering ha

Seven years ago, when Statoil moored the world's first full-sized floating turbine ten kilometers off the coast of Norway, engineers were looking to see if the new concept could find a pro