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Friday, October 3, 2014 11:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar - “The Role of Rheology in Non-Pressurized Polymer Foaming Systems” by Maryam Emami, PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

ABSTRACT:  Plastic foams, as engineering materials, are widely used in variety of industrial sectors and represent an extraordinary class of materials. Foaming in polymers involves delicate scientific mechanisms and unique morphology transformations. This work explores the influence of rheological properties on polymer foam development in non-pressurized systems.

Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar - “Discrete and Continuous Optimization Models for the Design and Operation of Sustainable and Robust Process Systems” by Ignacio E. Grossmann, Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

ABSTRACT:  In this presentation we give an overview of recent applications in Process Systems Engineering of new discrete and continuous optimization techniques. We first provide a brief overview of logic-based optimization methods, emphasizing the theoretical relation of the continuous relaxations between mixed-integer programming and generalized disjunctive programming for nonconvex optimization problems.

Friday, October 31, 2014 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar - “Separation Processes – Soil Remediation and Air Pollution Control” by Kathryn Mumford, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne

ABSTRACT:  Increasing challenges associated with environmental remediation projects has driven the development of new, efficient and effective separation materials, technologies and processes suitable for large scale deployment. This presentation will provide an overview to some of the work being conducted at the University of Melbourne in this area for soil and air pollution control.

Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING BEST PUBLICATION PRIZE (2013) SEMINAR - “Hard Spherical Colloids at Fluid Interfaces: A Cellulosic Nanoparticle System” by Navid Bizmark, Chemical Engineering University of Waterloo

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING BEST PUBLICATION PRIZE (2013) SEMINAR

“Irreversible Adsorption-Driven Assembly of Nanoparticles at Fluid Interfaces Revealed by a Dynamic Surface Tension Probe” by Navid Bizmark, Marios A. Ioannidis, Dale E. Henneke, Langmuir, Vol. 30, pages 710-717

For:  “A Balanced Theoretical-Practical paper, with a Significant Contribution for the Quantitative Description of Nanoparticle Adsorption at Fluid Interfaces”

Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PARK AND VEVA REILLY DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR - “Genetic and Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium pasteurianum for Production of Butanol as a Renewable Biofuel” by Michael Pyne, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo

(Please be advised that signing a NDA will be required for attending this seminar)

ABSTRACT:  The Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) fermentation by anaerobic bacteria from the genus Clostridium was one of the first large-scale industrial bioprocesses, operating globally for the production of acetone during the first half of the 20th Century. Feedstock and product recovery costs prevented the ABE process from remaining profitable and acetone production was overtaken by the developing petroleum industry.