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April Newsletter
AIChE Chicago Sect ion
Chicago Section April 2018
Chair’s Corner 2
Poster Competition Information
3
April Meeting Infor-mation
4
Young Professionals News
5
Thiele Award Nomina-tions
6
Absentee Ballot Infor-mation
6
May Virtual Career Fair 6
Midwest Regional Con-ference Sponsors
7
Midwest Regional Con-ference Photos
8
Scholarship Fund 9
Particle Technology Conference
10
Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, and Webi-nars
12
Inside this issue:
April 2018 Local Section Meeting &
Annual Poster Competition
“Amine Scrubbing for Car-bon Capture and Storage:
History Repeats Itself”
Prof. Gary Rochelle UT Austin
Date: Tues, April 10th, 2018
Location: 302 Student Center East UIC 750 S Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607
Cost: Members: $40 Non-Members: $50
Students: $10 Unemployed/Retired: $15
Click on the link to register!
http://www.cvent.com/d/vgqmm3/
Agenda 5:00 - 5:30 Poster setup 5:30 - 6:30 Poster session, registration, and social hour 6:45 - 7:30 Dinner 7:30 - 7:45 Announcements and McCormack Awards
7:45 - 8:45 Technical presentation (Prof. Rochelle) 8:45 - 9:00 Presentation of poster awards
www.aiche.org/Chicago
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Chair’s Corner
The April Monthly Meeting features our annual Student Poster Competition. Our AIChE Chicago local section believes it is im-portant to encourage and support the undergraduate and gradu-ate chemical engineering student community. We do this in sev-eral ways.
We have a discounted rate to our monthly meetings in order to encourage students to attend. At the monthly meetings, students can network with professionals, learn technical topics, and discover all the career paths a chemical engineer can have.
Our annual Student Poster Competition gives graduate and undergraduate stu-dents an opportunity to showcase their research and open a dialogue about their research with professionals. For students not involved in research, it gives senior design students an opportunity to practice speaking about their senior design pro-jects in preparation for their final presentation.
In 2015, the AIChE Chicago Section awarded its first of an annual scholarship. Spearheaded by then Chair, Azita Ahmadzadeh, the scholarship was created to fos-ter engineering education and recognize student involvement in the local section. The annual scholarship continues on, and we are proud to continue to support the engineering education of our chemical engineering students! If you would like help us in this effort and contribute to the scholarship fund, please read on in the news-letter for more information.
The engagement and involvement of the student chemical engineering community
is important to our local section, and I hope that you can help us continue this en-
gagement by attending the annual Student Poster Competition and April monthly
meeting. After all, students today will be our co-workers, contributors, and leaders
of tomorrow!
Janet Werner
AIChE Chicago Section Chair
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April Meeting Information
Every year AIChE-Chicago recognizes academic excellence at our three Chicago
Section schools: IIT, Northwestern, and UIC. A student poster session competi-
tion/judging precedes dinner. The section will present the Harry McCormack
award to the top students from each of our schools along with the poster session
awards.
AIChE Local Section Poster Competition
Want to show off your research, class project or Senior Design project?
You could win up to $125!
Undergraduate: 1st Place - $125, 2nd Place - $50
Graduate: 1st Place - $125
To Enter: Submit abstract (500 words or less) to Beth Carter via email
([email protected]) by Friday, April 6.
Judging will be done on poster quality and organization, student delivery and ability to
answer questions, and project importance/relevance.
Poster Judges Needed!
Judges are needed for the student poster compe-
tition that will be held at the April 10 local section
meeting. Posters will be judged on quality and
organization, the student’s delivery and ability to
answer questions, and the importance/relevance
of the project. Please email
[email protected] by April 6 if you
would be willing to assist.
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April Meeting Speaker Information
“Amine Scrubbing for Carbon Capture and Storage: History
Repeats Itself”
Prof. Gary Rochelle
Abstract: Amine scrubbing for CO2 capture from coal- and gas-fired power plants is technically feasible and can be demonstrated. It can be deployed at full-scale in 5 to 10 years. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) by amine scrubbing will increase the cost of electricity production by 50 to 100%, so it will only happen with government incen-tives. Amine scrubbing is here to stay. No other technology will signifi-cantly reduce the cost of CO2 capture.
Biography:
Gary T. Rochelle is the Carol and Henry Groppe Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has mentored 110 graduate students working on air pollution control from coal-fired power plants, acid gas treating, and CO2 capture. He currently mentors 8 PhD students working on CO2 capture from coal-fired power plants by amine scrubbing. Their most significant contribution has been the development of the piperazine process for CO2 capture.
To Register:
http://www.cvent.com/d/vgqmm3/
Parking is available in the Halsted Street Parking Structure (HLPS) on the corner of Halsted and Taylor Streets. For map, click here for a UIC East Side campus map.
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Young Professionals News
Whirlyball Summary On March 8
th , 2018
YPC had its 10th annual
whirlyball tournament at
the Lombard location of
Whirlyball. 15 attendees
got the chance to play
Whirlyball with fellow
young professionals and
undergrads, while shar-
ing pizzas and snacks.
We had many new peo-
ple attending this event.
Everyone had a very
good time, and they had
the opportunity to get to
know each other in a casual setting. YPC events are a good opportunity for network-
ing, so we hope to see a few more new faces at our next event!
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Election Of Section Officers - Absentee Ballots
Election of officers will be held at the May Monthly meeting. If you expect to be absent from this meet-ing, you may vote by absentee ballot. Please con-tact our secretary at [email protected] to obtain one.
AIChE Virtual Career Fair
Looking for a Job? Register for AIChE’s Online
Career Fair
Spring 2018 Virtual Career Fair
May 3, 2018
12:00-4:00 EDT
Special Student hour: 3:00-4:00 EDT
For more information and registration, visit AIChE’s Virtual Career Fair Website.
ERNEST W. THIELE AWARD The Ernest W. Thiele award is sponsored by BP and recognizes the outstanding contributions to
our profession by a Midwest region chemical engineer. This award was established by the
AIChE Chicago Section and is presented annually to a Midwest region AIChE member. This
internationally recognized award consists of an engraved plaque and $1000 honorarium pre-
sented at our sectional meeting.
Nomination forms and additional information can be obtained from the Thiele Committee
Chair. Completed nominations are due to the committee chair no later than June 1, 2018
One of the highest honors a distinguished chemical engineer can receive is our Chicago Section
Thiele award. Please consider nominating a deserving engineer for this prestigious award.
Jim Simnick BP Amoco Complex, J-8
150 W. Warrenville Road, Naperville, IL 60566
Ph 630-420-5936, fax 630-420-4832
email: [email protected]
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Midwest Regional Conference Photos
For more photos, see our google photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WDDB493SweWEYczu2
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AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship Fund
My fellow AIChE members;
Someday we shall all want to retire and enjoy the fruits of our labors. Toward that goal, we need to plan and train our re-
placements to follow our example. You can do that with little effort by encouraging the next generation of engineers to enter
and continue their education in our field and practice chemical engineering as a professional.
For this purpose, the AIChE Chicago Section has established a Scholarship, available to currently enrolled or planning to
enroll in an ABET credited college or university of their choice in a chemical engineering discipline. The scholarship is also
available to the immediate family of AIChE Chicago section members.
By contributing to the principal of the Scholarship Fund, which is separate from the section operating funds, you can help us
make that happen. We, as a technical society, need to continually find and encourage the talented students to become engi-
neers and bring them into our profession. Small contributions now will pay big dividends in the future.
Please consider a donation to the AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship Fund by:
a. funding immediate need,
b. contributing to the endowment of the scholarship program, or
c. both.
Students or parents affiliated with the AIChE Chicago local section (students attended a high school or attending an ABET
credited college or university in the serving area and participant parents in the local section events) can apply for this schol-
arship. The total amount of the scholarship for each individual is a maximum of $2000 over four (4) years of enrollment,
which needs to be renewed annually.
To contribute, please make your check payable to AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship Fund, and mail it to:
AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship Committee
13964 Doral Lane
Homer Glen, IL 60491
or:
Visit http://www.cvent.com/d/j4q7yv/4W and click on the” Donate” button, and make your contributions using a credit card.
When making a contribution, please provide your name and address. The sec-
tion will send a thank you letter to document your contribution to a AIChE, a non-
profit organization under the IRS code at section 501(c)3 (Tax Deductible).
Thank you in advance for your consideration and contribution.
Very truly yours,
Azita Ahmadzadeh
AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship Development Team
Azita Ahmadzadeh and the 2014-2015 AIChE Chicago Section Scholarship
Recipient
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
· Hamid Arastoopour, Illinois Institute of Technology
· Rustom Billimoria, ExxonMobil
· Philip Chi Lip Kwok,
· Jeffrey Elam,
· Liang-Shih Fan,
· Masayoshi Fuji,
· Benjamin Glasser, Rutgers University
· Stefan Heinrich,
· William Heumann,
· Christoph Mueller, ETH Zürich
·
Wolfgang Peukert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
· James Ritter,
· Jennifer Sinclair Curtis,University of California, Davis
· Chris Sinko, Bristol-Myers Squibb
· Shankar Subramaniam, Iowa State University
· Chika Takai, Nagoya Institute of Technology
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Contact Charging in Granular Materials
Heinrich M. Jaeger, University of Chicago
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering —
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Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Mesoscience: Opening a New Paradigm
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
An Industrial Perspective on the Future Needs
in Solids Processing Research and Education
Karl Jacob, The Dow Chemical Company
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Upcoming AIChE Conferences, Meetings and Webinars
Chicago Section Monthly Meetings
Apr 10, 2018 Annual Poster Session and April Monthly Meeting, UIC, Chi-cago
May 2018 May Monthly Meeting, Burr Ridge Area
AIChE Conferences
Apr 22–26, 2018 2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety, Orlando, FL
June 3-7, 2018 2018 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED),Scottsdale, AZ
AIChE Webinars
April 4, 2018 Process Intensification Principles: Structure – Focus on Mi-cro- and Millireactors
April 4, 2018 Mixer Simulations, Modeling Nonideal Reactors and Mixers
April 11, 2018 Overcoming Difficult Challenges in Chemical, Petrochemical, and Refining Processes with Radiometric Measurements
April 18, 2018 Relief Devices, DOT, and OSHA: Insight for Pressure Relief Systems Engineers Trying to Make Sense of Fuzzy Jurisdic-tional Boundaries
April 25, 2018 Electrochemical Engineering
May 26, 2018 Modeling of Turbulent and Laminar Reacting Flows
Chemical Process Economic Evaluations
Distillation in Practice
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Officers and Contact Information
Chair Janet Werner
Chair Elect Mike Schultz
Chair Programming
Beth Carter
Robert Tsai
Secretary Nick Guzman
Treasurer Joe Guido
Directors at Large
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Dennis O’Brien
Ellen Kloppenborg
House Committee
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Asmara Soomro
Newsletter Editors
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Janet Werner [email protected]
Mita Jabun