2009 Chicago Midwest Regional AIChE Conference
Joint Meeting with IEEE
October 5th and 6th, 2009
At the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL
Location:
UIC Student Center East (SCE)
Cardinal, Dearborn, and Illinois Rooms
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
750 South Halsted Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Directions to campus
Parking:
Parking is available for $11/day in the UIC lot at the northeast corner of Taylor and Halsted (enter on Taylor).
Conference Overview
The theme for this year's symposium is “Energy & Sustainability”.
Join us for a symposium planning meeting on May 4th at 4:00 pm 810 S. Clinton, Chicago.
Please contact Dennis O'Brien
Tentative program will be 3 parallel sessions on both days. The high school outreach program will be planned for both days.
Program
| Session | Chair / Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Presentation |
| Session 01 | Pat Shannon | Middough | Alternative Fuels | |
| Session 01-a | Dr. Balan Venkatesh | GLBRC (MSU) | All About the Great Lakes BioEnergy Research Center | download pdf |
| Session 01-b | Woei Lau Ming | GLBRC (MSU) | Cellulosic Ethanol Hydrolysis | |
| Session 01-c | Leonard Da Costa Sousa | GLBRC (MSU) | Cellulosic Ethanol Fermentation | |
| Session 01-d | Dr. Patricia Slininger | USDA | Stress-Tolerent Yeasts for Ethanol Production form Cellulosic Biomass | |
| Session 01-e | Dean Karafa | Middough | Biomass Fuel for Combined Heat and Power | download pdf |
| Session 02 | Kevin Taylor | The Future Electrical Energy System | ||
| Session 03 | Robert Becker | UIC-EE | Electrical | |
| Session 04 | Dr. George Crabtree | Argonne | Energy and Sustainability | |
| Session 04-a | George Crabtree | Argonne | The Sustainability Challenge | download pdf |
| Session 04-b | David O'Donnell | Dept. of Environment, City of Chicago | Chicago's Vision for Energy and Sustainability | |
| Session 04-c | David Dunand | Northwestern University | The Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at NU | download pdf |
| Session 04-d | Cindy Klein-Banai | University of Illinois at Chicago | Sustainability in the Urban University | download pdf |
| Session 04-e | Peter Dreiske | EPIR Technologies | The Business of Sustainability: The balance between profit and progress | download pdf |
| Session 05 | Jim Van der Kloot | USEPA | Engineering Opportunities in Sustainable Development | |
| Session 05-a | Jim Van der Kloot | USEPA | Overview of Sustainable Development Challenges | |
| Session 05-b | Bob Newport | USEPA | Green Stormwater Management Practices | |
| Session 05-c | Janet Attarian | Chicago Dept of Transportation | Green Streets and Alleys | |
| Session 05-d | panel + Dennis O'Brien | Jacobs Consultancy | Discussion of Opportunities in Sustainable Development | |
| Session 06 | Justin Notestein | NU-ChE | Novel Materials and Processing for Energy & Sustainability | |
| Session 06-a | C. Bayram, F.H.Teherani, D.Rogers, R. Mcclintock & Prof M Razeghi | NU-EE | Novel Green Light Emitting Diodes: Innovating Droop-free Lighting Solutions for Sustainable Earth | |
| Session 06-b | Paul Desario, Le Chen, Michael Graham, Prof Kimberly Gray | NU-Civil & Envir Engr & ChE | Synthesis and Characterization of Nb-substituted Titania thin films for energy and energy efficient applications | |
| Session 06-c | Post-Doc & Prof Randy Snurr | NU-ChE | Metal organic framework materials for H2 storage or energy efficient separations | |
| Session 06-d | Steven Girard & Prof Mercouri Kanatzidis | NU Chemistry & Argonne | Thermoelectric materials for efficient electricity generation | |
| Session 06-e | Prof John Torkelson | NU-ChE & Materials Science | Novel processing techniques for polymer recycling | |
| Session 06-f | TBD & Prof Harold Kung | NU-ChE | Novel battery materials for transportation applications | |
| Session 07 | Randall Meyer | UIC-ChE | Catalysis | |
| Session 08 | Alireza Khaligh | IIT-EE | Electrical | |
| Session 09 | GTI | |||
| Session 10 | Charles M. Schroeder | UIUC-ChE | ||
| Session 10-a | Dylan Dodd, Shinichi Kiyonari, Yejun Han, Charles M.Schroeder, Roderick I. Mackie, Isaac K.O. Cann | UIUC-microbiology, genomic biology, energy biosciences, chemical & biomolecular engineering, animal sciences | Reconstitution of an enzyme mixture from the fiber degrading rumen bacterium Prevotella bryantii B14 which is capable of deconstructing hemicellulose | |
| Session 10-b | Fei Wen, Jie Sun, and Huimin Zhao | UIUC-Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology | Recombinant Yeast Strains Towards Consolidated Bioprecessing: Surface Display of Functional Mini-cellulosomes for Direct Conversion of Cellulose to Ethanol | |
| Session 10-c | Tae-Hee Lee and Huimin Zhao | UIUC-Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology | Engineering an L-arabinose/xylose co-utilizing S. cerevisiae for biofuels production | |
| Session 10-d | Ryan Sullivan and Huimin Zhao | UIUC-Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology | Microbial Synthesis of Xylitol from Hemicellulose | |
| Session 10-e | Talk on membrane-less fuel cells by Professor Paul Kenis' group |