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CEP: February 2015

"Ethics - Examining Your Engineering Responsibility" looks at several well-known incidents, focusing on their nontechnical causes. It then discusses how to avoid potentially difficult spots and what you might do if you find yourself in one. Other topics in this issue include controlling column...

Features

Ethics — Examining Your Engineering Responsibility

Engineering ethics frequently has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with communication, thought and decision-making patterns, and conflicts around time and money.

Control Column Pressure via Hot-Vapor Bypass

Hot-vapor bypass employs a flooded condenser located at ground level to control distillation tower pressure. It offers capital cost savings, but can be tricky to implement. This article offers guidance on designing and troubleshooting a hot-vapor bypass system.

Modeling Chemical Reactors

Models can be used to describe chemical reactors to help solve problems and optimize processes, while saving time, money, and resources.

Measure Viscosity Effectively

Knowledge of a material’s rheological behavior can be of value for research and development, process design, and quality control. This article provides a foundation for understanding viscosity measurement.

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CEP: Calendars

AIChE Meetings Calendar; AIChE Academy Calendar; Webinars

CEP: Catalyzing Commercialization - Self-Assembled Nanofibers Sniff Out Explosives

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are not just a threat to military troops but to civilians as well. Thwarting these attacks will require many measures, one of which is improved screening technologies. Vaporsens, a Univ. of Utah spin-off company, is developing a sensor that could meet the need for...

CEP: Editorial - Navigating Ethical Dilemmas

It seems not a day passes without news reports of a politician or corporate executive taking bribes, engaging in insider trading, or getting caught up in some other ethical dilemma. As engineers, though, we will more likely find ourselves in situations that have subtler, less-obvious ethical...

CEP: Institute News

AIChE Elects New Fellows; Minority Affairs Committee Turns 25; AIChE Recommendations for Establishing Process Safety Investigation Boards

CEP: AIChE Journal Highlight - Chemical Engineers Advance Molecular Simulation

In the February AIChE Journal Perspective article, “Recent Advances in Molecular Simulation: A Chemical Engineering Perspective,” Jeremy Palmer of the Univ. of Houston and Pablo Debenedetti of Princeton Univ. discuss the state of molecular simulation, challenges that need to be addressed, and...

CEP: Letters

CEP: Meeting Preview - Process Safety Takes the Spotlight in Austin, April 25–29

The global process safety community will join with chemical engineers across a spectrum of industries when AIChE holds its 2015 Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety at the Hilton Austin and Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX, April 25–29. ...

CEP: What's New

Read about the latest products and services in the areas of fluids and solids handling; environmental, health and safety; instrumentation; and laboratory equipment. ...

CEP: News Update

Pop-Up Method Transforms 2D Materials into 3D Objects; Digging in the Dirt Uncovers a New Antibiotic; Algorithm Predicts Bacteria Countermoves; An Organic Approach to Controlled Polymerization; and more.

CEP: Patent Update - Maintain Your Company’s Trade Secrets

Can a trade secret violation that is geographically widespread and continues for several decades still be actionable? A recent lawsuit provides the answer. ...

CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Who Are All These People?

In many serious events, there may have been more people in the area than were needed to do or monitor the job. Too many people in the area, whether the control room or the plant, can be a distraction, causing bad decisions that could lead to serious process safety incidents. They may also be injured...

CEP: Profile - Allan McDonald: Remembering Challenger and Looking Forward

Nearly 30 years after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, Allan McDonald is on a mission to prevent it from ever being forgotten. McDonald, director of the shuttle solid rocket motor project at the time of the incident, is one of the few engineers who vehemently opposed NASA’s decision to...

CEP: Career Corner - Get an Early Start on Planning Your Retirement

Whether you are a Millennial, Generation Xer, or Baby Boomer, it can be difficult to start planning for retirement ...

CEP: Software

CEP: Product Digest

This month's topic is engineering services. ...

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