A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and ...

A team used light and water to convert acetylene into ethylene, a widely used, highly valuable chemical that is a key ingredient in plastics. While this conversion typically requires high temperatures ...

New research shows how gold helps transform plant-based ethanol into useful industrial chemicals with fewer emissions and ...

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Process Engineering encompasses the analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, design, control and operation of process systems, from micro-sized systems to huge industrial facilities. Many ...

This course provides a comprehensive foundational overview of industrial chemical process development; the conversion of a synthetic route used for making milligram or gram quantities of a chemical ...

The circular economy model is a proposed solution to the climate catastrophe that has gathered widespread support among legislators and industry leaders alike. The industrial chemical sector supplies ...

Industrial chemicals are used in a multitude of processes that impact every area of human society, from the food and drug industries to the chemicals industry to construction. However, processes to ...

Volatile fatty acid separation from biowaste. Cattle manure is anaerobically digested in a bioreactor, and the resulting broth is processed with redox-mediated electrodialysis. The volatile fatty ...

Northwestern University researchers have taken inspiration from plants to revolutionize the way an important industrial chemical is made. In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and ...