Events - 2015

ABSTRACT:  With the growing demands placed on industrial production to achieve an integrated smart plant, factories require the development of efficient and viable methods for analysing and assessing the available data. Recently, the emphasis has focused on the development of data-driven control methods that use economic key performance indices (KPIs).

ABSTRACT:  Chemical engineering models may have many reactions, many kinetic parameters, and many mass transfer and thermodynamic constants. Consequently, models that can fully describe a chemical engineering process are usually nonlinear and complex and have many unknown parameters. Additionally, chemical engineering models are not perfect and there are random disturbances from the environment that should be estimated.

ABSTRACT:  Oil sands are a strategic resource for Canada, but despite technological advances in extraction techniques, the treatment of tailing ponds resulting from bitumen extraction is plagued by many environmental challenges. The crucial technical challenge is to separate bitumen from the sand and clay particles, then flocculate or stack the clay particles to release water that can be recycled to the bitumen extraction process. The clays can then be placed in the mine, giving rapid reclamation without forming tailing ponds that may take decades to be reclaimed.

Registration

2015 Chemical Engineering

Annual Master's Seminar Presentation

Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Time:  1:00-4:00pm and Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Time:  8:30-4:00pm

Location:  E6-2022

Please come to the Reception following Master's presentations: 

Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 4:30-6:00,

Location: E6-4024 (Faculty Lounge)

Threshold/Troublesome Concepts - What MUST We Teach?

Refreshments will be provided.

Any questions contact Kathy Becker, Assistant to the Associate Chair, Teaching  kabecker@uwaterloo.ca

Canada's top engineering schools talk about the critical need for graduate level engineers

Canada's top engineering schools have joined together to lead a national dialogue on the myths surrounding graduate school. Come learn more about the graduate studies opportunities available at the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, McGill University, University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.

Learn what a graduate degree in engineering can off you!

 ABSTRACT:  Silicon has the potential to revolutionize the energy storage capacities of lithium ion batteries, propelling their capabilities to meet the ever increasing power demands of next generation technologies. Silicon has a huge energy storage capacity (4200 mAh/g), ten times higher than the conventionally used graphite materials (372 mAh/g). To avoid the operational stability problems associated with the use of silicon-based anodes, the electrode structure needs to be architectured on the nanoscale.

ABSTRACT:  In this work we present results on the use of Gamma-Polyglutamic Acid (PGA) biopolymer to produce nanoparticles and encapsulate the anti-cancer drug Doxorubicin (DOX). Microbially produced PGA is used alone and in combination with Chitosan (CS) to form DOX-loaded nanoparticles at different conditions. The main mechanism of nanoparticle formation is the ionic complexation between PGA, DOX and CS.

"Mussel Power:  Defining the Essentials for Translation to Technology" by Dr. J. Herbert Waite, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Departments of Molecular Cell, Developmental Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)