Session: Plenary: Separations, Energy and Sustainability (2009 Annual Meeting)

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM

Delta Ballroom A (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

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
Email: SepDivArea2a@aol.com

Co-Chair:

Norberto O. Lemcoff
Email: lemcofno@utrc.utc.com

12:30 PM

(109a) Crystallization for Energy Savings and Sustainability
Allan Myerson

12:55 PM

(109b) Adsorption and Sustainability
M. Douglas LeVan

1:20 PM

(109c) 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, Pei-Lun Chung and Chim Y. Chin

1:45 PM

(109d) Distillāre Necesse – towards Sustainable Distilling
Zarko Olujic

2:10 PM

(109e) Overview of Hybrid PSA-Distillation Processes
James A. Ritter, Fan Wu and Armin D. Ebner

2:35 PM

(109f) Automation: Driving Energy Down
Pete Sharpe

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