In response to the recent biotechnology boom, many chemical engineering departments have recognized the need to incorporate biology, biochemistry, and bioprocessing into the undergraduate curriculum. Since curriculum changes can often be difficult to implement, departments must develop innovative problems, projects, and laboratory experiments illustrating bio-principles that can be incorporated...

Following four different fundamental principles, in addition to Weinberg’s universal relation, we find five reasons demanding that any gravitational mass m, and the speed of light c, vary with cosmological time (the masses increasing linearly with time and the speed of light decreasing with time, in such a way that the product mc remains constant). This is required by the universal condition of...

Continuously seeking the improvement of environmental protection, limitation exhaust emissions is significance for tire manufacturing industry. The aim this study to assess potential biofiltration treatment such gaseous emissions. This work highlights that able remove both hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds within a single pilot unit biofiltration. Due Ethanol/Alkanes ratios (95/5 80/20), hi...

The development of nanofiltration membranes with hollow fiber geometry is a relatively young field research in membrane science only limited, but quickly growing, availability on commercial scale. These offer promising properties for application water treatment such as high fouling resistance and low cost compared to Reverse Osmosis membranes. Major differences are found dimension operating con...

The present study investigates the thermochemical conversion of Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF), represented by selected “model materials”. A laboratory-scale induction heated device was specifically developed to achieve fast pyrolysis conditions close those encountered in a fluidized bed reactor. novel can handle up 5 grams solid, allowing heating rates (near 70°C/s) and homogeneous distribution te...

Chemical engineering unit operation labs do an excellent job of integrating the whole curriculum and exposing students to pilot-scale systems. Where they are often lacking, though, is the exposure to and use of real-life industrial automation by the future graduates. A unit operation lab that has been automated using industrial level paradigms and equipment is the focus of this paper. A partner...