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January 2009, Vol. 105, No. 1
In This Issue
NEWS
Oxygen and Nitrogen: Onward and Upward
Innovative advances continue to benefit all three of today's air separation technologies, helping to reduce power consumption and capital costs, and, in turn, expand their markets.
Suzanne Shelley
BACK TO BASICS
Determining Manufacturing Costs
Making early estimates of a product's cost components enables developers to manage resources wisely and evaluate the product's economic viability.
John Anderson
REACTIONS AND SEPARATIONS
Modeling Reactive Absorption
Effective modeling of reactive absorption enhances system design, improves experiment planning for parameter-estimation, and facilitates process operation and control decisions.
Eugeny Kenig and Panos Seferlis
SPECIAL SECTION: SUSTAINABILITY
Achieving Technical Sustainability
Subhas Sikdar
Sustainability Innovation in the Consumer Products Industry
Sustainability is both a responsibility and an opportunity, and innovation can be the key to success.
Len Sauers and Shekhar Mitra
Government Perspectives on Sustainability
Advances in science and technology, the application of diverse government regulations and policies, and green business practices are all needed to advance sustainabilty. Biofuels production is a good case study to illustrate how government and business can work together to demonstrate sustainability in operation.
Alan Hecht
Incorporating Sustainability into Chemical Engineering Education
This benchmarking study of the types of courses offered and the material being taught sheds light on what the engineering profession regards as sustainability.
David T. Allen, Cynthia F. Murphy, Braden R. Allenby, and Cliff I. Davidson
A Personal Perspective on Sustainability Through Energy Efficiency
These relatively simple lifestyle changes enabled one individual to reduce energy costs by $2,000/yr and his carbon footprint by one-third.
Robert W. Sylvester
The AIChE Sustainability Index: The Factors in Detail
The AIChE Sustainability Index provides practical benchmarks along a number of well-defined metrics.
Calvin Cobb, Darlene Schuster, Beth Beloff and Dicksen Tanzil