"Process Safety Management for the Biofuels Industry" is a training program that was developed by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a Technology Alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers under a “Susan Harwood Grant” from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA).

Henry Ford was a complicated visionary who was, in some respects, ahead of the times, while woefully behind in others. His Fordlandia project in Brazil is an interesting study of Ford as a business man and individual.

Dan Fish is an environmental engineer at Covanta Energy who works at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC), located in downtown Minneapolis. Watch the full interview.

Ready to dream about the perfect Christmas gift to satisfy your deepest techno-lust fantasies? Feast your eyes on these beauties that are sure to make any design conoisseur's heart beat faster.

The other advantages were that he developed a new level of appreciation for the situations detailed in Dilbert and he didn’t mind taking time off to visit Beth (his future wife) as she was studying abroad.

In response to some recent posts on applications of renewable energy and moving energy use/production off grid, I've been thinking about technologies and concepts could be valuable right now and have stronger driving forces, which let me to the idea of the military as a source or development and implementation.

Daniel M. Kammen, the World Bank Group's Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, speaks to ChEnected at the E3-2010 Conference.

Tax decisions can affect chemical engineers as they take their projects from the lab to the field. Learn more about how you can learn to make wise tax-related decisions that will please your boss and bolster your project's success.

Researchers, students, government officials, and nonprofit and business leaders from Minnesota and across the nation attended E3 2010, Tuesday, November 30 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. This year’s conference focused on the intersection among innovative technologies and policies, environmental benefits, and emerging market opportunities in the renewable energy sector.

This month, CEP covers the topic of sustainability through eco-efficiency analysis and brings you a look at the subjects of chromatography for separating complex mixtures and heat integration for improved energy efficiency.

AiChE young professionals attending the 2010 Annual meeting in Salt Lake City took in a football (i.e., soccer) game in their free time.

Commercial aviation just reached an important milestone. Germany's Lufthansa Airlines has announced they will begin using a biofuel blend for regularly scheduled passenger service starting in April. This six-month trial on Hamburg to Frankfurt flights is part of a long-term study of a 50-50 biofuel blend on flight performance, maintenance and engine life. One caveat: only one of the two engines will use the blend; the other will still rely on pure jet fuel.

Why does your bo$$ talk about things like inventory control when he asks you about operating costs? Inventory is the aggregate of items that are either held for sale in the ordinary course of business, in the process of production for sale, or currently consumed in the production of goods or services to be available for sale in the future.

Before working for an upstream oil company, I was under the impression that chemical engineers working in oil and gas belonged in pipeline and downstream operations. For those of you not in the industry, most large, integrated oil companies consist of an upstream organization and a downstream organization. The former focuses on exploration and production and the latter refines crude petroleum into usable products (gasoline, lubricants, etc.).