The following Poster Sessions are scheduled from 9 AM - 12 Noon, unless otherwise noted. Please sign in at the registration desk located in front of Beckman Auditorium. Researchers can use this software, which has an efficient and easy to use World Wide Web interface, without any prior training or familiarity with a specific computer platform or database. The Biology Workbench enables any user with a browser to efficiently access, extract and process data from remote databases.
Chemical engineers develop processes that turn raw materials into usable products.
In many industries, reducing environmental impact is a critical challenge. Such processes often use solvents to separate reactants not used in the reaction and unwanted by-products from desired products. A key to cleaner, more efficient, and profitable manufacturing is to turn around the design process so that the starting chemistry is a design parameter rather than a given. The Application Technologies Chemical Engineering Team is developing computational tools to do this. With these tools, chemical engineers will be able to design plant processes in conjunction with downstream separation techniques, specifying reaction pathways and solvents that minimize environmental consequences.