Post-Fukushima Japan Chooses Coal and Nuclear Over Renewables
Japan's Prime Minister Abe calls for both additional coal plants and restarting the nuclear power fleet, leaving renewables in limbo.
Japan's Prime Minister Abe calls for both additional coal plants and restarting the nuclear power fleet, leaving renewables in limbo.
Learning about a region's geography can enhance a chemical engineer's knowledge and understanding of the region's dominant industries and need for chemicals.
Glori Energy's AERO System improves water-flooded well production by pumping nutrients to native but dormant microbes. They grow, knocking loose stranded crude.
Learn about the experiences and plans of this senior in chemical engineering at the University of Buffalo.
Take a guided tour through an oil refinery in the pages of CEP this month, and learn about 3-D printed prosthetics, the latest in biofuels, and much 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.
Purdue's Biowall entry took home the prize, with an ingenious design that improves indoor air quality thanks, in part, to plants' ability to purify air.
Meet Hope Quintana and learn about her professional development as a ChE, including her post-graduate work at New Mexico State University.
Of the many issues confronting the boom in formation fracturing processes at natural gas and shale oil well heads, water use and reuse are among the most important. Todd Langford of GE Power & Water presented an overview of these challenges and current solutions.
Lafayette College Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) and American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) hosted the Lafayette ChBE Symposium “Engineering re-Connections: framing future networks.
On Wednesday April 2nd at Tulane University, more than 160 students from three high schools in the New Orleans area gathered to listen and learn from practicing chemical engineers during the AIChE high school outreach event as part of the Spring Meeting.
Researchers have put a new gene into the poplars, replacing ether bonds in the lignin backbone with ester bonds that are easier to break down.
If you are considering or have been offered a management position, how are things going to change for you? What is that first year going to be like? Dr. Jonathan Worstell outlined some answers to these questions and a framework for the transition of the new manager.
Researchers have proven that it’s possible to power engines with a cheap and abundant seawater. To prove their point, they flew a model airplane using the new technology.
In the US, more than 3,200 hazardous materials listed by the EPA must be conveyed through double-containment pipes.
Developing biological processes that yield bio-fuels that that are devoid of oxygen moieties, and thus don't need to be upgraded, is some of the current work that is going on at Calysta Energy, as reported by their CTO, Dr. Josh Silverman.
As competing groups pressure the Obama administration about selling US natural gas overseas, the DOE recently authorized exports from a proposed Oregon terminal.
A group of 25 Young Professionals took a break from the AIChE Spring Meeting to take a tour of the Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, LA, and learned more about the green engineering behind the brewery's operations.