November 2012 - Che-student-staff-list

Re: [Che-student-staff-list] Inter-company invoice from Arch Coal Corp.
by OscarHarkey＠ecn.purdue.edu 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Good dayAttached the inter-company invoice for the period July 2012 til Aug. 2012.(Internet Explorer file)Thanks a lotDEVORAH KINGArch Coal Corp.

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AIChE Skip-A-Meal for American Cancer Society
by Hendryx, Sandra K 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

See attached handout. AIChE Skip-A- Meal at Noodles and Company! All funds raised will benefit the American Cancer Society! The event is tomorrow evening (Wednesday) from 5:00 - 9:00 at Noodles, and if anyone does not have a handout, they need only mention Purdue AIChE for their purchase to benefit the American Cancer Society. Thanks, Kevin Bock Purdue AIChE Philanthropy Committee

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Reminder-Purdue Seminar Today - POTR 234 @ 3:30 pm
by Cadwallader, Teresa L 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Operational Planning in Residential Microcogeneration Energy Production Networks Dr. Georgios M. Kopanos, Imperial College London, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, United Kingdom Seminar November 5th, 3:30-5:00 pm POTR 234 The classical Energy Supply Chain (ESC) is rapidly changing to an energy-efficient and low-carbon energy market economy by moving towards more decentralized energy production. There is clearly a distributed energy generation option which could play a vital role within the development of sustainable future energy systems, the energy microgeneration. Specifically, the most promising microgeneration technology involves the cogeneration (i.e., combined generation) of electrical energy and heat in small-scale energy generation units that can be directly embedded in the buildings wherein the heat and electricity are to be used; also known as microcogeneration (Pehnt et al., 2006). Indeed, the domestic sector constitutes a key consumer of both electricity and heat, and could benefit from consolidation to meet these demands via micro Combined Heat and Power (microCHP) generators (Hawkes et al., 2006). Today, the principal microCHP technologies are based on Stirling engines or fuel cells. Stirling engines are already available in the market in competitive prices, while fuel cells constitute a still- experimental technology that features high initial capital costs. Also, there are financial incentives (such as the Feed-In-Tariff support scheme introduced by the UK Government) initiated by many countries in an attempt to encourage the uptake of small-scale microgeneration technologies. ESCs based on microgeneration have been recently emerged, and they are expected tp grow rapidly. In this new energy environment, the electrical grid (macrogrid) is seen not as a primary power supplier but instead as a back-up of the microgeneration ESC network network. A residential energy microgrid (i.e., a microgeneration ESC) could be formed by connecting several domestic microCHP systems. Importantly, by constructing such a microgrid while integrating various energy alternatives in a residential scale, residents can trade and consume the power flexibly (and more efficiently) with each other. Noticeably, the planning and the overall management of microCHP-based ESC networks result into highly sophisticated decision making problems. In this work, a mathematical programming framework has been developed for the operational planning of such ESC networks. The minimization of total costs (including microgeneration system's startup and operating costs as well as electricity production revenue, sales, and purchases), under full heat demand satisfaction, constitutes the objective function. Additionally, an alternative microgrid structure that allows the heat interchange within subgroups of the overall microgrid is proposed, and the initial mathematical programming formulation is extended to deal with this new aspect. A number of real-world size case studies, using real data provided from the UK Energy Research Centre, have been solved by the proposed approaches so as to shed light on the potential benefits of the residential microgeneration ESC networks suggested in this study. Finally, we will identify some potential future research directions are identified.

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United Way--This organization helps many, many people.
by Heide, Karen Kay 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Dear All, A friendly reminder to those who have not turned in their United Way card. Please return it whether you donate or not. Please put your name at the bottom of the envelop. Please return them to me at your earliest convenience. At the end of the campaign (November 9), for those who turn in the envelop, I will put their name in a drawing and the winners will receive a United Way T-Shirt. United Way is a wonderful foundation, which helps developing solutions for poverty, tackling homelessness and supporting groundbreaking reading programs in local schools .... United Way of Greater Lafayette is right there, helping build extraordinary futures for many, and we need your support. For the past 23 years, Purdue's United Way campaign has helped our community connect, educate, and involve students, faculty, staff and retirees in the care and nurturing of our local community. United Way of Greater Lafayette's goal this year is $4.7 million. Purdue needs to raise $745,000 of this amount. Please make a donation again this year or give for the first time to assure the important work of United Way of Greater Lafayette will continue. If you are interested in giving at a leadership level, a grant from the Indiana Association of United Ways and the Lilly Endowment, will match every new or increased unrestricted dollar contributed through the vanguard program dollar for dollar. Local families, individuals, children and the elderly benefit greatly from your gift. The work these agencies do, and the support they give to those in need of a helping hand, go a long way toward keeping our community, safe, secure, and a very special place to live. "Building Extraordinary Futures" - together we can make this happen! If you have questions about Purdue's United Way campaign we would be delighted to talk with you. Maryann Santos de Barona is the 2012 United Way Campaign Chairman, Purdue University, Dean of College of Education. Karen Mrs. Karen Heide Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907-2100 Phone: 765-494-4050 Fax: 765-494-0805

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Dr. Giorgio Carta's Seminar Abstract & Bio
by Heide, Karen Kay 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Dr. Giorgio Carta "Transport Phenomena in New and Improved Stationary Phases for Downstream Processing of Biopharmaceuticals" November 6, 2012 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 8:30 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: Downstream processing of pharmaceutical proteins such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is currently limited by capacity and rate bottlenecks. Binding capacity is limited by the large size of these biomolecules while their slow diffusion requires long processing times. The key to removing these bottlenecks is thus to devise new and improved stationary phases for protein chromatography where both capacity and mass transfer rates are increased without sacrificing mechanical strength so that more can be adsorbed faster. Composite materials, incorporating soft, charged polymers supported by a rigid structure have been introduced for this purpose in recent years and appear to be a significant step in the desired direction. But how do these materials achieve faster transport without comprising capacity? The combined use of macroscopic measurements, microscopic measurements using confocal laser scanning microscopy to track the movement of proteins within the chromatographic particles, and transport modeling provides mechanistic insight. We show that protein capacity is increased by multilayer binding while transport is enhanced by close-range biomolecular interactions within the charged polymers giving rise to a large diffusional driving force. We also address the large effects that subtle charge variants arising from post-translational modifications have on chromatography and transport in these materials. Mechanistic models and conditions under which these composite matrices show promise for various applications are illustrated and an outlook for the future is provided. Open Pore Matrix Polymer Grafted [cid:image005.png@01CDB915.9D507540] [cid:image006.png@01CDB915.9D507540] Bio: Giorgio Carta received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1984. Since then he has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, where he is currently the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor. He currently teaches Mass and Energy Balances and Bioseparations Engineering. His research interests are in bioseparations with emphasis on adsorption, ion exchange and chromatography. Professor Carta has authored more than 125 refereed journal articles in the areas of mass transfer, adsorption, chromatography, and biocatalysis, is the holder of two US patents, a co-author of Section 16 Adsorption & Ion Exchange of Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7th and 8th Editions, and co-author of the book "Protein Chromatography - Process Development and Scale-Up" published by Wiley-VCH in 2010. He has served on the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Preparative Chromatography - PREP annually since 1997 and as Chair of PREP2009, PRE2011, PREP2012, and PREP2013. He has also served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Fifth, Eighth, and Tenth, and Eleventh International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption - FOA, as Vice Chair of FOA9, and as Chair of AIChE's Area 2e Adsorption & Ion Exchange and Area 2g Bioseparations. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of the journals Separation Science & Technology and Adsorption, as senior editor of Biotechnology Journal, and as a Member of the Board of the International Adsorption Society. Professor Carta has been involved extensively in continuing education and professional development courses. He has served as lecturer in the ASME Bioprocess Technology Seminars annually from 1991 to 2002, as organizer and leader of the PREP Symposium Workshop on Mass Transfer in Liquid Chromatography annually since 1997, as a lecturer for the Society of Bioprocessing Professionals Annual Bioprocessing Institute from 2003 to 2006, as a lecturer in a biannual short course on Fundamentals of Protein Chromatography at BOKU, Vienna, and the organizer and director of a Short Course in Protein Chromatography held annually at the University of Virginia. He has also served as organizer and lecturer of in-house training programs in process chromatography for pharmaceutical, biotech, and chromatography media companies. Professor Carta is Fellow of AIChE, member of ACS, and Board Member of the International Adsorption Society, and a consultant for chemical, pharmaceutical, and process chromatography companies. Mrs. Karen Heide Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering Purdue University 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907-2100 Phone: 765-494-4050 Fax: 765-494-0805

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