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Stanford Report
April 29, 2018
Engineering Heroes are chosen by a panel of technology experts, faculty, alumni, students and historians who are attuned to the breadth of the nominees' ... MAE JEMISON: Jemison earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Stanford in 1977 and would apply her knowledge and academicÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 29, 2018
Based in Maumee, the Engineer will additionally provide support to facilities in Brampton, Ontario, Franklin, OH and Cincinnati area. The Process Engineer will support local production and plant managers while reporting to the Process Engineering Manager. Engineer will identify and perform processÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 28, 2018
Italmatch acquires metalworking fluids business from Afton Chemical. By Mary Page Bailey | April 27, 2018 ... Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) received a contract from ENCINA Chemicals, LLC (Coral Gables, Fla.; www.encina.com) to provide… Badger technology selected forÃâà...
delawarebusinessnow.com
April 28, 2018
The Chemours Company, Wilmington, announced CEO Mark Vergnano received the 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award. The award honors leaders who have made contributions to the chemical engineering profession and whoseÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 27, 2018
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) received a contract from ENCINA Chemicals, LLC (Coral Gables, Fla.; www.encina.com) to provide operations readiness (OR) support services for its new benzene toluene xylene (BTX) processing plant in Gillette, Wyoming. As part of theÃâà...
Imperial College London
April 27, 2018
Two summer opportunities for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) have arisen in the Department of Chemical Engineering. The successful candidates will be producing high-quality training videos in the Analytical Laboratory, the most comprehensive and well-equipped of anyÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 27, 2018
Hyundai Engineering said “We were able to clinch the deal as we had completed similar projects in Malaysia. We have also built up strong credentials having worked on various EPC projects with big petrochemical names in Thailand, including Siam Cement Group, PTT Group and Thai Oil Public CompanyÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 27, 2018
This new capacity, which has been brought online ahead of schedule, will enable the Group to support its customers' growth in America, particularly in emerging applications such as water filtration and in traditional markets such as the chemical process industry and high performance cables (automobile,Ãâà...
Chemicals Technology
April 20, 2018
Engineering, procurement and construction company CB&I has secured a contract to provide ethylene technology for two Lianyungang Petrochemical's plants in China. Located at Lianyungang's petrochemical facility in Jiangsu Province, the ethylene plants have a capacity of 1,250 kilo tonnes per annumÃâà...
Billings Gazette
April 20, 2018
In West Fargo, it allowed the city to see what the path of the chemical smoke plume would be and which schools, businesses and residents sat in its path. Using the data, the city was able to contact a nursing home and a school and tell them to turn off their air handlers so that the pollutants wouldn't beÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 20, 2018
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the U.S., in France, and in the U.K. With these units, Air Liquide has doubled its biomethane production capacity, which now stands at 60 MW, the equivalent of 500 GWh for a full year of production.
ChemEngOnline
April 20, 2018
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) opened a new 7.61-acre solar field in Kingstree, South Carolina. The field uses DSM Anti-Reflective coating technology to increase solar output and will help power the neighboring DSM Nutritional Products facility. A ribbon-cutting ceremony willÃâà...
Missouri S&T News and Research
April 20, 2018
Three professionals with ties to chemical and biochemical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology were inducted into the Academy of Chemical Engineers at Missouri S&T during its annual induction ceremony on Thursday, April 19. The academy honors chemical engineers forÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 19, 2018
The activities will include biotechnology and material science R&D, business and market development as well as technology scouting for key strategic ... “The operation in Boston will complement the metabolic engineering capabilities that we have in our Renewable Chemistry Research Center inÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 19, 2018
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has been awarded an ethylene technology contract by Lianyungang Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co., Ltd. CB&I's scope of work includes a process design package, heater engineering and technologyÃâà...
MIT News
April 19, 2018
Pierre Leonc Thibaut Brian, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering, died on April 2 at age 87. ... of Engineering in 1975 for his “contributions to both theory and engineering practice of desalination, mass transfer in chemically reactive systems, and the technology of liquefied gases.
TechCrunch
April 16, 2018
... graduate who holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, Srinivasan is highly-prized in Silicon Valley. He sits on the board at power investor firm Andreessen Horowitz and is known for being an early evangelist of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
April 16, 2018
A transfer student has proposed changes to a Student Association policy that he said denies undergraduates who come to UB from other schools the ability to serve as Engineering Council coordinator. Omran Albarazanchi, a junior chemical engineering major, said current Student Association electionÃâà...
Chemicals Technology
April 16, 2018
Haldor Topsoe has secured a contract to install its sustainable emissions control technology, SNOX, in Orion Engineered Carbons' carbon black production ... Under the agreement, Haldor Topsoe will be responsible for offering engineering, licence, proprietary equipment, spare parts, catalyst, and futureÃâà...
The Observer
April 15, 2018
Ykee Benda brings first-class chemical engineering degree to music industry. April 15, 2018; Written by Observer Media Ltd ... But you went on to do Chemical Engineering? That was later. I first went to MUBS ... So, my final year I really focused and got a first- class degree [in chemical engineering]. I came back and took myÃâà...
The Chemical Engineer
April 6, 2018
A RANGE of new titles, including recently updated editions of Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering – have been added to IChemE's online library, Knovel. For the first time in 20 years, Coulson & Richardson's seminal textbook has been updated by IChemE and leading scientific publisher ElsevierÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
April 3, 2018
Imperial College London invites applications for Imperial College Ph.D. Scholarship in chemical engineering 2018-19 from students applying for ... A student must have obtained a first-class honours degree at master's level or equivalent in chemical engineering, another branch of engineering or a relatedÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 3, 2018
Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) has appointed Mr. Shishir Joshipura as the CEO and Managing Director, effective from 2nd April, 2018. Joshipura is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and an Advanced Management Graduate from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Praj, he wasÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 1, 2018
Touch displays are currently gaining ground in the laboratory environment, since they save on space and are easy to clean — keyboards are generally unsuitable for the laboratory bench. Therefore, the new version of ADVANCE software for interfacial analysis (photo) features all the contact angleÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 1, 2018
When it comes to level measurement, chemical processors long for a “silver bullet” technology that works in every application. ... Most of the difficult process conditions are related to the environment within the process, says Mike Bequette, vice president of engineering with SOR Measurement and ControlÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
April 1, 2018
Nano One's solution-based technology dissolves the lithium in water (at ambient conditions) with other transition metals, so it doesn't matter what form .... relative to larger partially dehydrated ions, such as sodium, potassium and rubidium,” explains Benny Freeman, a chemical engineering professor at UT.
ChemEngOnline
April 1, 2018
The Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) is a widely used tool for comparing plant construction costs in the chemical process industries (CPI) between different time periods since 1963. Over its history, the underlying details of the index have been revised and adjusted several times.
ChemEngOnline
April 1, 2018
... technology, and will convert non-recyclable mixed waste, including plastics, into synthesis gas (syngas), which is then used for making methanol. The plant will have two production lines, or twice the input capacity of Enerkem's commercial-scale plant in Edmonton, Canada (Chem. Eng., October 2010, p.
ChemEngOnline
March 31, 2018
Recent developments in technology and industry practices are being leveraged to drive success in the area of sustainability. ..... Roche is a member of FPSA Young Professionals Group, 3A, and holds B.S. degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and aÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
March 31, 2018
TechnipFMC (Houston; www.technipfmc.com) has completed the acquisition of Epicerol technology from Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com). The technology converts glycerol to high purity epichlorohydrin (ECH) for use in coatings, composites and adhesive applications in various industries.
ChemEngOnline
March 31, 2018
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has invested more than $50 million over the last 4 years in its Birmingham, Ala., Health Care facility to boosts its capabilities around biodegradable polymers and parenteral medicine. As part of these expenditures, the Birmingham site is now homeÃâà...
CBS News
March 31, 2018
Corinne Weeks now has to choose between the nine Ph.D. programs for chemical engineering that have offered her admission with a combined total of $2.3 million in scholarships and housing stipends. And they're not just any schools. The universities vying for Corinne's attendance are some of the topÃâà...
KIIITV.com
March 31, 2018
"We're pleased to assist the AIChE student chapter at the university since many of our students interested in pursuing the profession of chemical engineering transfer to Kingsville to complete their chemical engineering degrees," Lindley said. "We also want to recruit students into our new program.".
IIT Today
March 30, 2018
Armour College of Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering David Venerus and co-author Hans Christian Oettinger of the ETH Zuerich recently published a textbook titled A Modern Course in Transport Phenomena (Cambridge University Press). This graduate-level text presents a unique approachÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
March 30, 2018
Data collected and tabulated by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) show that growth in global chemical production continued on a soft note in February. The ACC's Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) indicates that globalÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
March 25, 2018
GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking theÃâà...
MIT News
March 23, 2018
As a newly tenured faculty member in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering, Roman now tries to guide his students toward their own tipping points. ... He won a full scholarship to Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, in Mexico, for high school and college, but during his first year ofÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
March 23, 2018
This data is the only timely source of market trends for twenty-eight market and functional specialty chemical segments. Chemistry directly touches over ninety-six percent of all manufactured goods, and trends in these specialty chemical segments provide a detailed view of trends in manufacturing. The dataÃâà...
Photonics.com
March 23, 2018
Students simulate reactions in a chemical plant using an augmented reality tabletop developed in the lab of Andrew White, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester. Courtesy of University of Rochester Photo/J. Adam Fenster.
WLNS
March 22, 2018
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 22, 2018--Infiniti Research, a global competitive intelligence solutions provider, has just released their new industry risk assessment study on the chemical engineering equipment industry. A renowned chemical engineering equipment manufacturer wanted to boost theirÃâà...
create digital (blog)
March 22, 2018
Hellstedt told create digital that the engineering school's expansion would give students significantly greater practical hands-on design and build opportunities to make them more job ready. Jacqueline Beech, a recent graduate of the university's Master of Chemical Engineering, agreed that the newÃâà...
Chem.Info
March 22, 2018
Using an augmented reality (AR) platform, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Rochester in New York is developing an innovative way for ... (VR), which creates a three dimensional environment, augmented reality overlays video and audio onto the physical world using digital technology.
ChemEngOnline
March 22, 2018
Susan Dio, a chemical engineer by training, has been chief executive of BP Shipping for the past three years, responsible for BP's shipping business ... BP's business in Alaska and, earlier in his almost 35-year career with BP, held executive and engineering posts in the US, UK, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Governance Now
March 22, 2018
Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan, said, “I am happy that ICT Mumbai, and Indian Oil Corporation have joined hands to set up a world-class Centre of Excellence in Chemical Engineering & Technology at Bhubaneswar to catalyse theÃâà...
Penn State News
March 21, 2018
Ken Graziani, a Penn State chemical engineering alumnus, was recently named one of 12 recipients of the 2018 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award. ... Since then, he has held numerous senior technology leadership and executive management positions with EMRE, serving as senior engineeringÃâà...
The Guardian
March 21, 2018
The immigration journey of AnnaLaura Arredondo, USC chemical engineering student ... She decided she'd go into the engineering field that had the least women and start to change that. Of that story arc, she says, “You only get one opportunity and you have to take it all the way. I saw one door closing andÃâà...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
March 15, 2018
Musicians, singers and dancers will showcase the talents of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students in this year's Engineers in Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday ... Pianist Hannah Spiegel, a senior mechanical engineering student, and cellist Paige Bateman, a senior chemical engineering and mathematicsÃâà...
Chemicals Technology
March 15, 2018
Canada's Alberta Government is set to provide C$2bn ($1.5bn) in funding to support an expanded 'Petrochemicals Diversification Program' and a plan to ensure the necessary infrastructure for petrochemical feedstock. Alberta Minister of Energy Margaret McCuaig-Boyd announced the funding, whichÃâà...
ChemEngOnline
March 15, 2018
Demilec and the entire SPF industry has delivered strong double digit growth, which we expect to be sustained as their technology provides outstanding insulation performance in a world which is increasingly concerned with improving energy efficiency. The Demilec team will continue to be fundamental toÃâà...
The Star Online
March 14, 2018
MIRI: Curtin University Malaysia senior chemical engineering lecturer Dr Stephanie Chan Yen San has won the Venus International Women Awards ... active researcher whose current research interests include bio-nanotechnology, bio-process engineering, biotechnology and microwave drying technology.
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