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Join RAPID at the 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting taking place in New Orleans, LA March 24-28, 2024.

May 14-15, 2024 | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO

RAPID Members are cordially invited to attend AIChE's 2023 Annual Meeting taking place in Orlando, FL November 5-10.

Thursday, October 12, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET Topic: Ammonia - the carbon-free petroleum

Wednesday, September 20, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET   Topic: Applied science in advanced materials and sustainability

The RAPID DEPLOY Conference Series offers attendees an invite-only opportunity to engage in a mixture of invited talks and active workshop-style sessions culminating in a synthesis activity and an actionable report out.

Thursday, May 11, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET  

Join RAPID at the 2023 AIChE Spring Meeting taking place in Houston, TX March 12-16, 2023.

Thursday, January 26, 2023 @ 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Tuesday, January 24, 1-2pm ET  

January 31, 2022 | San Jacinto College: Central Campus, Pasadena, TX, USA

December 15, 2022 | MAGNET’s New Headquarters, Cleveland, OH, USA  

RAPID Members are cordially invited to attend AIChE's 2022 Annual Meeting taking place in Phoenix, AZ November 13-18.

October 18, 2022 | 12:00PM - 4:00 ET |Virtual This event has concluded.

September 14-15, 2022 | Houston Dow Center Register for the Event

August 9-10, 2022 | Hotel Morgan

August 11, 2022 Hotel Morgan, Morgantown, WV   RSVP to RAPID Members Meeting

This free CII webinar on Thursday, May 26 at 1pm CDT will present the work of CII and the RAPID Manufacturing Institute®, which compared modular chemical process intensified (MCPI) with conventional approaches to chemical production. The presentation will offer four distinct case studies that span different sectors of the chemical industry.

RAPID Technology Showcases provide an opportunity for RAPID members to connect with and learn about a fellow member's technologies and capabilities. We invite you to our next RAPID Technology Showcase featuring ENETOR taking place Wednesday, April 6.

For the first time in its history, the RAPID Manufacturing Institute's DOE-sponsored peer review will be open to the public. Join us virtually March 14-15, 2022.

RAPID Members are cordially invited to attend AIChE's 2022 Spring Meeting taking place in San Antonio, TX April 10-14.

RAPID Technology Showcases provide an opportunity for RAPID members to connect with and learn about a fellow member's technologies and capabilities.

The RAPID DEPLOY Conference Series offers attendees an invite-only opportunity to engage in a mixture of invited talks and active workshop-style sessions culminating in a synthesis activity and an actionable report out. The third in the series will focus on modular technologies for process electrification.

Join Dr. Brian Paul and Dr. Goran Jovanovic in this 4-day course for professional engineers interested in advancing MCPI in the chemical industry, specifically through the use of "number-up" plant designs.

RAPID Technology Showcases provide an opportunity for RAPID members to connect with and learn about a fellow member's technologies and capabilities.

RAPID Members are cordially invited to attend AIChE's 2021 Annual Meeting taking place in Boston, MA November 8-12 as well as virtually November 15-19.

RAPID Technology Showcases provide an opportunity for RAPID members to connect with and learn about a fellow member's technologies and capabilities.

August 17-18, 2021, 1-5PM ET   |   VIRTUAL 

RAPID Technology Showcases provide an opportunity for RAPID members to connect with and learn about a fellow member's technologies and capabilities. 

Heat Transfer Research, Inc. (HTRI) has led research and software development of process heat transfer technology for nearly 60 years.  Join Tom Lestina, Senior Vice President, Engineering to learn about the recent initiatives to improve heat exchanger performance and reliability.

Three Manufacturing USA® institutes — IACMI, RAPID and REMADE — are proud to join forces and host a special series of webinars on Careers in

Join Keryl Cosenzo, Ravi Aglave & Jean-Yves Delannoy from Siemens Technologies and Siemens Digital Industry in this Tech Showcase. The speakers will  describe how Siemens can partner with RAPID members to develop digital twin solutions for their research endeavors.

The RAPID DEPLOY Conference Series offers attendees an exclusive invite-only crowd providing opportunities to engage in a mixture of invited talks and active workshop-style sessions culminating in a synthesis activity led by RAPID staff. Attendees will leave energized with new connections and empowered to deploy new ideas. The first in the series, RAPID DEPLOY: Waste-to-X, will focus on developing new routes for converting waste biomass to products.

Thomas A. Adams II, PhD. P.Eng, an Associate Professor at McMaster University, will introduce the movement toward developing standards concerning eco-technoeconomic analyses (eTEAs) for industrial process systems.

Join Kim Tutin, Founder and CEO of Captis Aire, who will describe an alternative emissions control device, the Fluidized Bed Concentrator (FBC).  Baseline technology, the Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) controls emissions by oxidizing them.

Join RAPID leadership for a 60-minute overview of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute™ including:

The RAPID Software Toolbox contains a curated list of models and software tools developed by RAPID members for use with modular and intensified process technologies (MCPI).

In December 2019, StenCo, LLC was formed by co-founders John Brown and Alex Gerogiannis.

Join RAPID for the following virtual events taking place as part of the 2020 AIChE Virtual Annual Meeting

IFS is a startup OEM providing continuous flow fluid heating equipment to the process industries built on their proprietary 'middle-out' platform to improve manufacturing performance and profitability.

The RAPID Manufacturing Institute will host its annual peer review virtually September 28-October 2, 2020.

Showcase Title: "Breakthrough Adsorption-Based Technology for the Separation of Fluid Mixtures Including Carbon Dioxide Capture and Removal"

Showcase Title: Liquid-liquid extraction in flow and hybrid batch-flow processes

The COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 impacted the global economy on many levels. As countries sought to protect their populations, the ensuing economic shutdowns created a lack of critical goods in the U.S., highlighting the global interconnectedness of our supply chains.

AIChE is virtually hosting the 9th International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering (ICOSSE) on August 3-5, 2020. Both the call for abstracts and the early bird registration are open until July 15th.

Process intensification (PI) methodologies are key to establishing new designs in our process industries. Considering the applicability, we may innovate industrial processes from idea to commercial-scale implementation.

RAPID is developing a new student design competition known as the ChemE Cube. This student design competition would challenge students to create a modular chemical process using a non-toxic chemistry that changes annually in a one-foot cube.

This presentation will describe MATRIC’s capabilities, both facilities and staff expertise, and how these come together to meet our customers’ needs for the development of their intellectual property. 

We at RAPID welcome you to invite your colleagues and join us for an upcoming technology showcase featuring RAPID Member Optimation Technology, Inc. This showcase will take place on Thursday, April 2nd, from 2pm-3pm ET.

RAPID cordially welcomes you to this virtual information session to learn more about what it means to be a part of the RAPID community and the resources and benefits available to active RAPID members.

The Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance is hosting a 2-day conference to discuss challenges and opportunities in the digital transformation of the chemistry and manufacturing landscape. During this conference, Dr. Ignasi Palou-Rivera will participate as a keynote speaker and discuss the RAPID Manufacturing Institute and its mission to transform the process industries.

On behalf of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, this workshop will bring together thought leaders interested in guiding the future of process safety and process intensification at this invite-only virtual workshop.

Join us for RAPID's monthly technology showcase which highlights individual member capabilities or initatives that can be of value to the broader community. January Topic: Overview of DOE’s Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems

RAPID will be hosting process intensification topical conference sessions, a Member Mixer, an Info Session and more at the 2020 Virtual AIChE Spring Meeting. Learn more about the RAPID-related events.

The AIChE Center for Energy Initiatives, in collaboration with other entities, is hosting a 2 day symposium to focus on solar energy innovation, challenges and opportunities for engineers and other stakeholders. RAPID will hold a short interactive session alongside this conference focused on the application of modular and chemical process intensification for producing chemicals and fuels from solar energy as a storage mechanism.

Join RAPID at the upcoming 2019 Food Innovation and Engineering (FOODIE) Conference. Hosted by AIChE's Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division, this conference will discuss emerging technologies for food production, analyze strategies to connect industry and cuisine, and navigate methods to fit the consumer market. RAPID will hold a short interactive session alongside this conference focused on the application of modular processing on protein separation and purification.

Join RAPID at the upcoming Food-Energy-Water Nexus in New York, NY. This conference focuses in addressing obstacles and initiatives in providing and maintaining the food, energy and water supplies in urban environments. RAPID will hold a problem-discovery brainstorming session at the conference to identify the role that modularization and distributed manufacturing will play in the context of the Food-Energy-Water nexus.

This latest workshop in the AIChE PD2M series is the first event to address the question of what pharmaceutical manufacturing will look like in 2030 and how we should prepare now to be ready for the changes that are coming. RAPID's CEO Bill Grieco will participate as a speaker and will discuss the RAPID Manufacturing Institute and its mission to transform the process industries.

Join RAPID at the 2nd Space Travel: Adaptive Research and Technologies from Biological and Chemical Engineering (STAR Tech) Conference. This conference will focus on space travel technology and capability needs, in an effort to accelerate the development of commercial and non-commercial space exploration. Alongside this conference, the RAPID Manufacturing Institute will hold a short problem-discovery workshop to identify ways that modular and chemical process intensification could be applied to space travel and habitation.

Join us on January 7-10, 2020, for RAPID’s Emerging Membrane Processes for Water Purification Course Click here for more info or to register.

The RAPID Manufacturing Institute will host its annual peer review on November 13-14, 2019 in conjunction with the AIChE Annual Meeting. Click here for more information about the event and a link to register.

RAPID members are cordially invited to attend AIChE’s 2019 Annual meeting in Orlando, FL. RAPID will be hosting a number of events and PI Topical Conference sessions - click here to view the full schedule.

Pilot Course Date: September 9-12, 2019 Location: Oregon State University’s ATAMI Center, Corvallis, OR

The RAPID Manufacturing Institute will hold a problem-discovery brainstorming session on the afternoon of Monday, Aug.

Join the RAPID workshop at the 2018 Natural Gas Utilization Workshop at College Student Center in College Station, TX. This session will convene subject matter experts, both members and non-members of RAPID, to review the roadmap developed last year for the Natural Gas Upgrading (NGU) Focus Area (FA).

Join RAPID for a workshop at ICOSSE '18 in Cincinnati, Ohio. This includes a facilitated discussion of how modular and chemical process intensification can be applied to two topics: water use and reuse; and carbon capture, storage, and utilization.

Join RAPID for the upcoming 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, which runs from October 28-November 2nd. See our Calendar below for more information. The dates and times are set. However, speakers and some content may be subject to change.

The 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting is the year’s key technical conference for practicing chemical engineers. It will be held April 22-April 26 in Orlando, Florida. Participants can expect a wide range of subjects relevant to the current needs of industry.

We invite you to join us for the Fall 2017 RAPID Members Council Meeting, taking place at the Hilton hotel in downtown Minneapolis on Thursday, November 2, 2017. 

Mark Johnson, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

The first RAPID Members Technical Council (MTC) meeting took place at the Hilton San Francisco, November 15th, 2016.

Please be sure to register here on or before October 25th, 2017.

Get up-to-speed on the institute’s jumpstart projects in the areas of natural gas conversion, modular manufacturing, renewable bioproducts, and advanced modeling.

For the first time, there will be a separate section of the Annual Meeting exhibit hall for organizations and attendees focused on process intensification and modular chemical processing.

The first RAPID Members Council meeting was held Monday, March 27th 2017, at the