Chemical Engineering Progress

James Rutherford Fair, the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair Emeritus in Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of...

HEADNOTE President's Message "This is a great time to be a chemical engineer." Several other AIChE Presidents have...

Bucket Elevator Enables Rapid Process Line Expansion The multi-axis Elecon bucket conveyor and elevator system now comes with...

HEADNOTE It is a common misconception that the November-December holiday season is an unproductive time for job-hunting. Smart...

HEADNOTE Process heat integration using pinch analysis is a respected tool for achieving energy efficiency. This article explains...

HEADNOTE Purifying high-value mixtures, such as pharmaceuticals, can be an expensive undertaking. Choosing the correct chromatography methods can...

HEADNOTE Eco-efficiency analysis promotes an understanding of the economic and environmental trade-offs over products' lifecycles, and supports informed,...

We've all heard about the emergence of a service economy - a scenario in which you cut my...

Modeling Tool Assists With Battery and Fuel Cell Design The Batteries & Fuel Cells Module is the latest...

With the emergence of globalization and outsourcing, commercializing a new idea is frequently the result of teamwork -...

SOLIDS AND FLUIDS HANDLING Insulated Screener Controls Temperatures of Sifted Materials The Insulated Quick-Clean CentriSifter is a high-capacity...

The manufacturing of nanoscale materials and devices offers opportunities for chemical engineers to make significant contributions to product...

When economic growth is from the supply side perspective, economic output, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP),...

Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new organic solvent process that selectively dissolves noble...

A new, lightweight biodegradable foam material, made from two unlikely ingrethents, holds promise as a plastic substitute for...

HEADNOTE MATERIALS Scientists at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory...

Engineers at Case Western Reserve Univ. have built diamond-based flexible electrodes to identify, monitor, and manipulate chemical and...

HEADNOTE ELECTRONICS Scientists at the Univ. of Illinois have developed a simple and highly sensitive colorimetrie sensor for...

Oregon State Univ. (OSU) engineers have produced nanoparticles 500 times faster in a new method that could advance...

Stanford Univ. engineers have developed a device that removes bacteria and other organisms from water, enabling faster, less-expensive...