This preliminary program is subject to change.

Plenary: Separations, Energy and Sustainability


Description:
This session will discuss current and future roles that separations technologies (distillation, membranes) employed in the chemical and petrochemical industries have on energy conservation and sustainability.

Sponsor:
Separations Division
Co-Sponsor(s):
Topical G: Innovations of Green Process Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Environment (TG)


Chair:
Nicholas F. Urbanski
Fractionation & Heat Transfer Specialist
ExxonMobil
P.O. Box 2189
Houston, TX 77252-2189
Phone Number: 713-431-7431
Email: SepDivArea2a@aol.com

Co-Chair:
Norberto O. Lemcoff

Papers:
Crystallization for Energy Savings and Sustainability
Allan Myerson, Illinois Institute of Technology
Adsorption and Sustainability
M. Douglas LeVan, Vanderbilt University
Simulated Moving Bed Technologies for the Separations of Three or More Components and Applications for the Production of High Purity Biochemicals and Biofuels
Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, Purdue University; Pei-Lun Chung, Purdue University; Chim Y. Chin, PureVision Technology
Distillâre Necesse – towards Sustainable Distilling
Zarko Olujic, Delft University of Technology
Overview of Hybrid PSA-Distillation Processes
James A. Ritter, University of South Carolina; Fan Wu, University of South Carolina; Armin D. Ebner, University of South Carolina
Automation: Driving Energy Down
Pete Sharpe, Emerson Process Management
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