2025 Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety April 6-10, 2025 Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX
2025 AIChE Annual Meeting November 2-6, 2025 John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston | Boston, MA
Archived Webinar Want to be an Entrepreneur? Personal Stories From Three Successful Entrepreneurs Who Have Traveled This Path.
AIChE April 2022 Newsletter NEOSEF Awards & Working in Antarctica Today we are celebrating the AIChE Special Judging Awards to students that participated in the NEOSEF. The NEOSEF was established ...
AIChE March 2022 Newsletters: March 14th Pi Day & March 24th Innovative Engineering Pi Day March 14th: We celebrate Pi Day every March 14th since that date has the notation of 03.14, and on that day we recognize how the many engineering disciplines use Pi in their work. For Chemical Engineering we will see how Pi is used to calculate vertical and horizontal cylindrical tank volumes...
AIChE Cleveland Section February 2022 Newsletter: Where will the Intel Ohio Chip Plant get their Pure Si? There is a high probability that the Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation (HSC) plant located in Hemlock, MI will provide a fair portion if not all of the 99.999% pure polycrystalline silicon or polysilicon needed for the electronics chip manufacturing process at the Intel Corporation facility to be...
AIChE Cleveland Section January 2022 Newsletter, Geothermal Energy and Global GE Plant Mapping The existing oil and gas drilling industry can shift its operations from drilling for oil and gas to drilling for geothermal energy to supply the nation’s needs. The infrastructure, people, and technology already exist to achieve this purpose. There would be no needed infrastructure construction...
AIChE Cleveland Section December 2021 Newsletter, The Future of Nuclear Power Generation As the world and the country try to go green, many are taking a fresh look at nuclear power because as non-emitting power source. Previous lectures have covered, how is power generated from a nuclear reaction, what is the process for splitting of the atom, why is the nuclear reaction different than...
AIChE Cleveland Section November 2021 Meeting, H2 Powered SARTA Fuel Cell Electric Bus Fleet; Joint Meeting with Akron The Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA), under Kirt Conrad’s leadership, has added 11 Fuel Cell driven buses to its bus fleet. This will be the largest fleet in the country outside of California. SARTA along with Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research lunched the...
DNV Executive Summary for Energy Transition from 2021 to 2050 Global emissions peaked in 2019, followed by an unprecedented 6% drop in 2020 due to COVID-19. Emissions are now rising again and will grow for the next three years before starting to decline. While they are being added at great speed, renewables currently often supplement rather than fully replace...
AIChE Cleveland Section October 2021 Meeting, Anatomy of a H2 Fitting, Swagelok & H2 Economy Panel Discussion 1. Anatomy of a H2 Fitting: Hydrogen must be stored at high pressures to achieve the energy density required for use in fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure. This presentation will demonstrate the performance attributes required of fittings used in these systems. As a small-molecule gas, hydrogen...
AIChE Cleveland Section July 2021 Webinar: Hydrogen Safety Codes & Standards (for Reference Only) As the emerging hydrogen transportation and stationary power markets grow, so have codes and standards which promote safety. Recently, there have been efforts to harmonize these documents to accommodate a global market. This AIChE webinar to better understand today’s model codes and major...
AIChE Cleveland Section June 2021, Road Map to a U.S. Hydrogen Economy There will be a three-presentation series on the plan to reduce U.S. carbon emissions with fossil fuels by transitioning into a Green Hydrogen economy generated by electrolysis powered by solar, wind, and nuclear power. The Green H2 will be used to power vehicles (cars, trucks, ships, trains,...
AIChE Cleveland Section May 2021 Newsletter Joint Meeting with ISA The presentation will cover the various ways of classifying hazardous areas in an industrial manufacturing facility, including how an explosion occurs and how to prevent it. It will explain how different areas are classified depending on the associated risks, including the various gasses and dusts...
AIChE Cleveland Section April 2021 NEOSEF Student Awards AIChE Virtual Awards Recognition for NEOSEF Students ...
AIChE Cleveland Section March 2021, Pi Day Celebration We celebrate Pi Day every March 14th since that date has the notation of 03.14, and on that day we recognize how the many engineering disciplines use Pi in their work. For Chemical Engineering we will see how Pi is used to calculate vertical and horizontal cylindrical tank volumes as well as fluid...
AIChE Cleveland Section February 2021 Meeting, Carbon Footprint Analysis and Ethics Climate Change is exhibiting crippling effects across the globe. 2020 has had the most hurricanes, western wildfires, warmest ocean temperatures, and polar ice melts compared to most years. These trends have been documented by the “Fourth National Climate Assessment” Volume II...
AIChE Cleveland Section January 2021 CRISPR, A Molecular Scissor, Reshapes the Future of Bioengineering and Biotechnology For generations, the field of bioengineering and biotechnology has been defined by the discoveries from the field of biology. Now, owing to the transformative discovery of CRISPR Cas systems (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020), a programmable molecular scissor, scientists have expanded this unique...
AIChE Cleveland Section December 2020, Fission versus Fusion As the world and the country try to go green, two types of nuclear power are referenced as potential clean energy sources, fusion and fission. While both terms are associated with nuclear power, what do they really mean and how is power generated from these sources? This lecture will go into the...
AIChE Cleveland Section November 2020 Newsletter, Overview of The Ohio Sea Grant Program The Great Lakes are an invaluable natural resource, containing more than one fifth of the world’s surface fresh water by volume and providing drinking water, commerce, and recreation opportunities to millions. People are drawn to live and work by the water’s edge, but they also contribute to...
AIChE Cleveland Section September 2020 Joint Meeting with ACS: Negative Emission Technologies It is widely accepted that conventional mitigation efforts, e.g., fuel switching, energy efficiency, and carbon capture and storage, are not enough to protect us from the irreversible effects of climate change. The inescapable reality of a continued atmospheric rise in heat trapping gases...
COVID-19 Resources from NSPE As you are aware, the spread of COVID-19 has had a profound impact not only on the lives of Ohioans, but equally on the day-to-day operations of workers and businesses of all sizes throughout the state. While Governor DeWine and Director Amy Acton, MD, MPH of the Ohio Department of Health continue...
CDC's COVID-19 Reopening Response (Long Version) Control of the epidemic requires action at the individual, community, and population levels. CDC has provided ...
AIChE Cleveland Section June 2020 Meeting, Harmful Algal Blooms Threaten Drinking Water in the Great Lakes Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to the Great Lakes cities drinking water. The solution of cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff should be implemented. The Great Lakes together hold 20% of the world’s surface freshwater that...
AIChE Cleveland Section May 2020 Meeting (Rescheduled), Global Warming & Climate Change Which Future? Projected Climate Change in the Coming Decades. ...
AIChE Cleveland Section January 2020 Meeting At the center of the debate about climate change is how to produce electricity without releasing CO2 to the atmosphere. The most contentious and largest form of carbon free electrical production is nuclear power. This Presentation will go over the history of nuclear power plants from early...
AIChE Cleveland Section November 2019 Meeting & Tour W. M. Wilson Company, Inc is a Manufacturers’ Representative/Distributor of steam specialties and process safety equipment that has been serving the industry since 1945. Recently, W. M. Wilson Company, Inc has opened a comprehensive hands-on, steam system training facility, located at their main...
AIChE October 2019 Newsletter We will be presenting the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) per the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and how these directives are practiced in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility making parenterals in a Final Dosage Form (FDF). This process operation has the strictest regulations...
