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Clearly the electric power industry is moving into a period of unprecedented competition. The utilities who prove successful in this new era will be those that can cut costs and increase customer satisfaction. Achieving these seemingly conflicting goals requires the strategic use of newtechnology. t
Karl Stahlkopf is vice president of EPRI's Power Delivery Group.
Technology Applications CenterBegun in 1987 with 4,000 square feet, Georgia Power's TAC (em probably this country's first utility-owned technology center -- now cover 19,200 square feet. A part of The Southern Co., it aids manufacturers in most of Georgia and Alabama, southern Mississippi, and the Florida panhandle. Major industries served include textiles, pulp and paper, and metals and plastics production and fabrication.
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By Daniel firstname.lastname@example.com Before Clayton County school board members interviewed the finalists for the corrective superintendent position, the official leading the search warned they might not like what they hear. Richard Greene, with the firm conducting the search, reported to the board that "one of [the finalists] told me, 'I am probably going to step on some toes, but it's going to be 18 months of straightening out what's wrong.'" John W. Thompson, one of the two finalists for the Clayton County corrective superintendent position, is remembered in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he served as superintendent for more than four years, as someone who stepped on toes. During his tenure there, Thompson's detractors decried him as "imperialist," while his supporters said he was the only one who had the courage to make tough choices and stand up to a bickering and meddling school board. "He was very strong willed," said Daniel Romaniello, Sr., a Pittsburgh school board member. "He wasn't much on having discussions. Instead of there being a dialogue, there was an argument." Johnnie Monroe, pastor of Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, said the superintendent's boldness and insistence on change conflicted with some of the city's long-time power brokers. "Dr. Thompson came here as a well-dressed man who was quite sure of himself," Monroe said. "He did not play the old-line politics and he did not kow-tow to the old games. He tried to be straight up. A lot of folks couldn't deal with that." Thompson arrived in Pittsburgh with 26 years of education-administration experience. He started as a teacher in 1966, teaching high school math and coaching basketball in Salisbury N.C. Eight years later, in 1974, at Reidsville Senior High School in Reidsville, N.C., he was made an assistant principle. After earning bachelors, master's, specialist and doctoral degrees in North Carolina, Thompson left the state in 1991 to take a position with the Kentucky Department of Education. In 1994, he was made superintendent of schools in Tulsa, Okla., and then went to Pittsburgh in 2000. Even with all that experience and that long record, though, some members of the Pittsburgh school board say they didn't know who John Thompson was, when he arrived. Theresa Colaizzi, a school board member, said the board hired Thompson on the recommendation of a search committee, when they should have taken the responsibility themselves and should have gone to Tulsa and talked to the people there. "Not the board members," Colaizzi said, "the people. The actual people. Go to the grocery store, go to the hair salon, ask people what they know about John Thompson, and they'll tell you. I would have appreciated learning from [Tulsa's] experience." Later, when Thompson was in the middle of his contract as Pittsburgh school superintendent, and the board and the community were divided into deep pro-Thompson and anti-Thompson factions, Colaizzi did meet members of the Tulsa community. "This one lady told me," Colaizzi recalled, "'John Thompson will divide you until he unites you in wanting him gone.'" Thompson's first act as Pittsburgh school superintendent was furnishing his office. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the furnishings cost about $500,000 at a time when the city and the schools were in financial crisis. School officials were debating whether to raise already-high taxes or close schools, and the move struck some as self-centered. The move seemed to symbolize -- along with his full-time driver and his, reportedly, expensive tastes in clothes -- an air of detached superiority. More than four years later, when Thompson was forced out, people were still criticizing the "half a million" he spent on the office. Romaniello said the expense may well have been necessary, but the way Thompson refused to explain, and the way he dealt with the criticism, set the tone for everything. "He wouldn't talk about it. He just said, 'I'm allowed to do it and I did it.' That was primarily the mentality of his tenure," Romaniello said. It is not clear what Clayton County school board members are looking for in a corrective superintendent, but the role has been described, by search leader Richard Greene, as guiding the school administration to meet the mandates required to keep accreditation. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is requiring the school system to meet the mandates -- including removing undue outside influences, reviewing board policies, and auditing attendance and financial records -- by Sept. 1. The search firm was originally looking for a permanent superintendent, but found from community feed-back that the public is not confident in the current board's abilities to make that decision. The search firm recommended that a one-year, corrective superintendent be brought in, someone who will clean-up the school system, but someone, too, who would help restore confidence in the system. The corrective superintendent is also supposed to have no long-term designs on the permanent position, and have a record of going into difficult situations and making a difference. During Thompson's time in Pittsburgh, he was faced with a set of serious fiscal challenges, each of which carried touchy, political dimensions. The city had a number of schools which were draining money and seemed. to some, ready to be closed. But the schools were important to the local communities, and some of the suggested closings were met with strong community opposition. The city had a $40 million budget deficit when Thompson arrived, but there was strong reaction to any mention of raising taxes. "The school district was in chaos when he got here," Monroe said. "We were running a large deficit, and he came and he eliminated that deficit. He began to move the district in the right direction, academically, and he brought in some of the right people to get the job done." Monroe said Thompson, through his "bold leadership," was successful in pushing back against the board and limiting the board's rampant micromanaging. "He tried to move them away from micromanaging, to allow him to be the superintendent," Monroe said. "By and large, John was able to move many of the board members away from that, and allow him to do what he was supposed to do." Eventually, though, the board pushed harder than Thompson, and his contract was, pointedly, not renewed. The board then took another step and bought out the last four-and-a-half months of Thompson's contract, paying a reported $150,165, rather than put up with him for another four and a half months. "It was just time," Romaniello said. The editorial writers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette depicted Thompson as a superintendent who tried, but couldn't quite manage to bear all the various weights, eventually collapsing under them. "The politics of trying to close under-utilized schools, while raising test scores in an unfriendly fiscal climate and declining enrollment base doomed ... the well intentioned John Thompson," according to one editorial. Another editorial said he put all his attention into "putting the district's fiscal house in order," but was so single-minded he ignored other important things. Thompson didn't ignore the children, though. Romaniello recalls that his son would come home from school with stories about "Dr. Thompson" in the cafeteria. "He genuinely liked kids," said Romaniello. "He didn't care who they were or what they were like. He genuinely enjoyed being around them ... He'd bring pizza and have an assembly with the kids. Dr. Thompson spent a ton of time in the schools with the kids and he made it, a little bit, so that they enjoyed where they were." Monroe recalls that Thompson could be found anywhere there were Pittsburgh children in trouble. "You could depend on Dr. Thompson being there in the hospital, in the home, out on the street, because he saw each child as being his," Monroe said. That attentive touch of Thompson's did not reach the board, however. Colaizzi said Thompson's tenure in Pittsburgh taught her "what a relationship between the board and the superintendent shouldn't be like," and said she wouldn't speak more specifically, for fear of being sued. "The board became divided," she said. Romaniello said Thompson wasn't at the root of the board divisions, but the man "wasn't doing a very good job of trying to bring the board together." At some point, according to Romaniello, the board began to spend a lot of time fighting about Thompson. More than three years after the superintendent departed, Thompson is still a controversial figure in parts of Pittsburgh. Monroe said Thompson represents the future that Pittsburgh is refusing to accept, and Romaniello said the school administrators are "still trying to undo the things that he did when he was here." Thompson may have already shown Clayton County some of his toe-crushing boldness. During his interview with board members, according to Greene, the corrective superintendent candidate said he would need a budget line item of $1-2 million for "corrective actions." He told the board that "outside consultants who are experts in the field" should come in and perform audits of "every single facet of the school system." A sweeping review of the whole system would be necessary, according to Thompson, looking at the whole system, so the board would know where things stood with finances, organization, curriculum and performance. If hired, Thompson, or the competing candidate, could receive a package worth $325,000, including "salary and fringe benefits," for a year as Clayton County's corrective superintendent, according to Greene. Repeated attempts to reach Thompson for this article were unsuccessful. The board could make its decision as early as Saturday.
More like this story
- BOE moves toward 'corrective' superintendent ( March 17, 2008 )
- Clayton BOE fires Superintendent Thompson
Valya Lee becomes fourth school chief in two years ( March 15, 2009 )
- Thompson takes over Clayton schools ( April 29, 2008 )
- Thompson addresses public about Clayton schools ( April 25, 2008 )
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text: A CENTURY OF TRIUMPHS: Ten Lasting Chemical Engineering Achievements — and 100 Markers of Chemical Engineers' Progress Toward Them T his month, AIChE's Centennial Celebration Committee brings its year- long retrospective of chemical engineering's first century to a close — with a grand finale devoted to some of the profession's contributions to society's well-being. Over nine issues of CEP, we've taken an impressive journey through chemical engineering and AIChE history — with fascinating and inspiring people and breakthroughs all along the route. We were reminded of our heritage through the achievements of the profession's original innovators and forebears. We traveled on a space odyssey with chemical engineers in Earth's orbit. We ventured outside the profession to meet successful business leaders, artists, and other persons of renown — linked by their early training as chemical engineers. We saluted the people who wrote the textbooks that set the foundation for our education and professional progress. And, we reflected on the evolution of AIChE — from a collective of a few dozen men working mostly in the Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes regions, to a diverse, multi-faceted and interdisciplinary professional home for chemical engineers worldwide. We covered a lot of ground — yet we were able to only scratch the surface. There are so many more seminal and signature achievements that could have been promoted … so many more visionary engineers and brilliant researchers who could have been added to our rosters of immortals ... We might very well have continued to publish lists of honorees for years to come, and still never have been able to do justice to all the best of the profession. The complete legacy of chemical engineers could never be summed up in the samplings printed in our magazine. Indeed, the legacy is still being written — and we can bear witness to its progress day by day — in the development of new ways to bring plentiful clean water, food and medicines to countless people in need in the millions of lives improved and saved through new drug-delivery and health care options in the labs where researchers are exploring a variety of alternative fuel options in new and efficient process designs and the maximizing of raw materials in tight economies in our safer workplaces and cleaner environment in the fresh generation of chemical engineering graduates — well-equipped to enter a new type of chemical engineering practice unimagined by many of their predecessors. With all this past success and talent to spare, it's easy to feel confident that the next 100 years of the profession are in good hands. Now, we need look only to tomorrow. Let's turn the page together. CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 5 POWERING EXPANDING ECONOMIES C hemical engineering achievements fuel the world's economies. Witness the dramatic increases in the supplies of higher-quality gasoline and jet fuels that resulted from the discovery and development of continuous catalytic cracking. The cracking of hydrocarbon molecules — a truly interdisciplinary and international effort — opened the door to advances that energize today's $63-trillion world economy. Our modern industries and way of life would not exist without the improvements and access to efficient fuels created by chemical engineers. From high-octane gasoline to jet fuel, from chemicals derived from natural gas to the stretching of fossil fuels — chemical engineers power world progress. Dr. Robert E. Humphreys with his Burton distillation unit — which now resides in the Smithsonian Institution. In 1909, William Burton, general man- ager of manufacturing for Standard Oil of Indiana, instructed chief chemist Robert Humphreys to work on increas- ing the yield of gasoline from crude oil. Humphreys knew that the applica- tion of high temperatures would "crack" molecules, and he theorized that if gas oil could be held under pressure until a cracking temperature was reached, it might improve the yield of gasoline. Humphreys was right and the thermal cracking process was invented. Photo courtesy of Standard Oil of Indiana archives, Whiting Library, Whiting, IN 6 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP 1912 1942 1970 Thermal cracking at 850° F and Continuous catalytic cracking is BF3-catalyzed 1-decene polymeriza- 75 psig doubles the yield of gaso- achieved by fluidizing fine silica tion leads to energy efficient syn- line from crude oil, compared with alumina catalyst so that it flows thetic motor oil (Mobil1— first intro- 650° F atmospheric distillation. between reactor and regenerator. duced in 1974; improved polymer Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey added in 2000). Mobil Oil 1921 1944 1985 Continuous thermal cracking to First jet fuel, called JP-e, is manufac- First commercial plant built to convert heavy oil into gasoline tured to fuel early U.S. jet planes. convert natural gas to methanol is achieved using double coils Socony Vacuum and then to a premium unleaded and tubes. gasoline. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey 1950 Mobil Oil 1930 First synthetic jet and turbo-prop aircraft engine lubricants are Low-temperature lube oils are developed, providing produced using an additive to superior lubrication and prevent paraffin crystallization. greater thermal stability. Standard Oil Development Standard Oil Development 1937 1952 Multi-grade all-season motor High-octane gasoline is achieved by oil is developed; additives catalytic cracking using rapidly are used to reduce viscosity, deactivating silica catalyst regener- temperature dependency, ated in cyclic operations. This devel- and pour point. opment paved the way for fixed-bed Standard Oil Development catalytic cracking using reactors packed with catalyst pellets. Houdry, Socony Vacuum, Sun Oil Photos courtesy of ExxonMobil CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 7 BROADENING ENERGY OPTIONS C hemical engineers have been at the forefront of many world-changing — and empowering — developments. From the shepherding of nuclear power to the nickel-metal batteries that power hybrid vehicles, chemical engineering is critical to the creation of new energy options. Today's growing diversity in fuel sources and power devices brings along a new set of challenges, tailor-made for modern chemical engineers — who are working to lower emissions and creating the next generation of clean energy technologies. The Oak Ridge K-25 gaseous 1945 diffusion plant. Built in 1943 as part Enriched uranium is produced at the of the Manhattan Project, the plant Clinton Engineer works — the 2,142- was designed to separate U-235 column thermal diffusion plant at Oak from U-238. Ridge, TN. Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1957 The Shippingport reactor pressure Shippingport, the world's first large- vessel during construction, 1956. The plant — built on the Ohio River about scale nuclear power plant, goes into 25 miles from Pittsburgh, PA — service 15 years after sustained operated from 1957–1982, and nuclear reaction was demonstrated had a capacity of 60 MWe. by Enrico Fermi. Duquesne Light Co. 1959 High-powered Ni-MH battery of the Mass-scale storage and marine trans- Toyota NHW20 Prius. port of liquefied natural gas is proven feasible using a converted World War II liberty freighter. Conch Methane Services, Ltd. circa 1964 late 1970s High-energy lithium batteries using Environmentally-friendly, high-energy reactive metals in polar (hydrophilic) NiMH battery is developed; later used aprotic (no O-H or N-H bonds) in the Toyota Prius. solvents are developed. Philips; Centre National de la Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recherche Scientifique Laboratories 8 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP 100 Chemicals Engineers of the Modern Era DEALING WITH AN EVER-MORE-CROWDED ENVIRONMENT C hemical engineering has helped to alleviate many of the stresses associated with living on a crowded planet — from mitigating consumer and industrial wastes to easing some of the discomforts of our fast-paced urban, home and work environments. Chemical engineers are finding ways to purify and deliver the world's water supply, provide safer fertilizers, and raise product standards to protect increasing populations. And, through green manufacturing technologies — such as bioremediation of contaminants, chemical scrubbing, and reducing waste in the produc- tion of products like ibuprofen — chemical engineers give us a way to better cope with the headaches of everyday life, without creating headaches for the natural world. Hollow-fiber membrane 1969 Photo credit: Hangzhou H-Filtration Hollow-fiber reverse-osmosis Membrance Technology and membranes are used to treat Engineering Co.,Ltd. brackish water, providing greater capacities than similarly sized spiral-wound membranes. E.I. DuPont 1983 Polybenzimidazole (PBI) fibers are introduced as a substitute for asbestos, exposure to which can lead to lung cancer. Celanese 1989 Slow-release fertilizer for bio- remediation of oil-contaminated land and shores is developed. 1918 Exxon Research and Engineering Co. FLIT, the first petroleum-based household insecticide, is marketed. Its advertising art was created by Theodor Seuss Geisel (later known as Dr. Seuss). Standard Oil of New Jersey CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 9 1991 Anaerobic bioreactors capable of high-rate clean-up of wastewater gener- ated in the making of purified tereph- thalic acid are developed. Amoco Chemical 1993 Ibuprofen is manufactured using anhydrous hydrofluoric acid as both a catalyst and a solvent, resulting in the conversion or complete recovery of starting materials. This eliminated the disposal of large quantities of unrecoverable original aluminum Asbestos fibers. Photo courtesy of chloride (AlCl3) catalyst. U.S. Geological Survey BASF; Celanese 1998 Distillation-based method is developed for recovering unstable tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvent used in paints and paint removers. Mitsubishi Chemical 2001 Individual fibers of Membrane-based chemisorption Polybenzimidazole (trademarked as Celazole PBI) — a high process permits ammonia recovery performance imidized thermoplastic from anaerobic digested wastes; that replaces asbestos. allowed for a 99.9+% recovery of waste stream ammonia at Staten Photomicrograph by Island, NY, location. Michael W. Davidson, National High Foster Wheeler; Civil Engineering Magnetic Field Laboratory Research Foundation 2002 Dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) equal in purity to that made from petroleum is made from recycled polyethylene New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection Ammonia terephtalate (PET) bottles and converted Recovery Process test system at to high-grade terephthalic acid (TPA) for CASTion's Worcester, MA, facility. Since use in making new bottles. conducting the demonstration project in Teijin Limited 1999 at Staten Island's Oakwood Beach wastewater treatment plant, the process has been improved using 2006 proprietary Controlled Air Separation Self-assembled monolayers on meso- Technology (CAST) followed by ion porous supports (SAMMS) are used to exchange. selectively remove metal contaminants Photo by John Mauer, from coal-fired power plant waste courtesy of CASTion, streams. This was the first technology to A ThermoEnergy Company effectively reduce groundwater mercury to meet 2-ppb potable water standards. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 10 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP PROCESSING SULFUR- CONTAINING FUELS S ulfur is one of the noxious components that chemical engineering has helped to remove from burned fossil fuels. The catalytic converter cleaned up automotive exhaust, while other developments dealt with NOx and partially oxygenated hydrocarbons. Unleaded gasoline is another chemical engineering innovation that's made life cleaner. John J. Mooney co-invented (with Carl D. Keith) the three-way catalytic converter while working at 1973 Engelhard Industries (now BASF Corp.) Automotive catalytic converter is The single catalytic bed in the developed to clean up automobile three-way converter greatly reduced exhaust emissions. Sulfur, a catalyst emissions of carbon monoxide, hydro- poison, must first be removed from carbons and nitrogen oxides. the gasoline. First used on 1976 model-year cars, the converter's O2 sensor feedback Engelhard; General Motors system also brought the computer to the automobile, resulting in a 10% to 12% improvement in fuel economy. 1978 First unleaded premium gasoline is Photo by Nat Clymer introduced. Gasoline would later be reformulated with less benzene and more oxygenated compounds (1989). Mobil Oil 1983 Highly efficient selective removal of hydrogen sulfide and other acid gases is achieved using hindered amines (FLEXSORB SE). Exxon Research and Engineering Co. 1954 1991 Sulfur in the form of hydrogen sulfide Deep hydrodesulfurization of gasoline (H2S) is removed from heating oil and is achieved, making possible the simul- jet fuel by hydrofining — a catalytic taneous reductions of nitrogen and fixed-bed hydrogenation process aromatic contents. using hydrogen produced by catalyti- Mobil Oil cally reforming n-paraffins to high- octane aromatics. Standard Oil Development CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 11 LIVING BETTER THROUGH CHEMISTRY AND PLASTICS O ne might wonder whether Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, in their screenplay for "The Graduate," considered writing an alternative to the mentoring advice delivered to Benjamin Braddock … Mr. McGuire: I have just two words for you. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes. I am. Mr. McGuire: Chemical engineering. Ben: Exactly what do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in chemical engineering. Think about it. Will you think about it? Ben: Yes. I will. Mr. McGuire: Enough said. Perhaps not. But if Benjamin had followed the actual one-word advice from the movie — "plastics" — he would have certainly rubbed shoulders with chemical engineers, and made a productive career for himself, too. In the early 1930s, DuPont's attempts to synthesize commercially viable polyester fibers were stymied by the problems of low melting points and high solubility in water. The research team, led by chemist Walter H. Carothers, turned its attention to polyamides rather than polyesters, and in 1934 pulled a polymer fiber based on an aminoethylester — the first nylon. The team would face two possibilities: polyamide 5,10, made from pentamethylene diamine and sebacic acid; and polyamide 6,6, made from hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid. (DuPont named its molecules for the number of carbons in the starting materials.) DuPont settled on polyamide 6,6, ("Fiber 66") because the intermediates could be more easily prepared from benzene, a Samples of "Acele," Fiber 66 (nylon), and Viscose Rayon Fiber (1937). "Acele" was a more-expensive readily available starting material acetate rayon and viscose rayon was a cheaper rayon. derived from coal tar. Photo courtesy of Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections 12 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP "Old Faithful" — the first Bakelizer, used in 1909 by Leo Hendrik Baekeland. Made of iron alloys, the steam pressure vessel measures about 36 inches wide and is still in usable condition. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Searching for a synthetic replace- Argon gas bubbles trapped in polystyrene gel. ment for shellac, Baekeland began experimenting with the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde. By control- ling the pressure and temperature applied to an intermediate made from 1910 the two reagents, he produced a Bakelite, the first entirely synthetic polymer that, when mixed with fillers, thermosetting plastic, is produced from produced a hard moldable plastic. phenol, formaldehyde and wood flour. Bakelite, though relatively expensive, Bakelite soon found many applications — from household products like the telephone to automobile components to the 1928 rapidly growing radio industry. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) acrylic glass in developed; marketed in 1933 as Plexiglas. Rohm & Haas 1937 Polystyrene is produced commercially. It was first made accidentally from a Turkish Sweetgum (Liquidambar orientalis) tree in 1839. Dow Chemical 1939 Polyamide Nylon 66 is produced commer- cially for use ins women's hosiery. E. I. DuPont 1941 Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the first polyester, and Terylene (a trademark of ICI, known as Dacron in the U.S.), the first polyester fiber, are developed. E. I. DuPont CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 13 1942 1959 Foamed polystyrene (Styrofoam) is First commercial production of thermo- produced and first used to float U.S. plastic polycarbonates — products Coast Guard six-man life rafts. characterized by outstanding low- U.S. Coast Guard; Dow Chemical temperature ductility, impact resist- ance and superior optical clarity (Lexan trademark). 1946 General Electric Teflon is marketed under its trademark. It was first inadver- 1977 tently produced in 1938 from Fluid-bed catalytic process is commer- compressed/frozen cialized to produce polyethylene tetrafluoroethylene. copolymerized with three to six E. I. DuPont carbon alpha olefins (propylene, n-butane, etc.). This development allowed precise control of polymer 1952 properties (UNIPOL trademark). Union Carbide Mylar polyester film is introduced; used widely in electrical, electronics, imaging, 1982 and graphics applications. Structural composites (e.g., 1984 E. I. DuPont Corvette bumper) are manufactured using reaction injection molding, the rapid mixing/reaction of Mylar polyester film, isocyanates and polyols. commercialized in 1952, replaced NSF; Bayer; Dow; Texaco cellophane as the major product of the DuPont Film Dept. 1993 Photo courtesy of DuPont. From the book "DuPont: From the Banks of the Metallocene catalyst is developed Brandywine to Miracles of Science," to produce ethylene copolymers of by Adrian Kinnane. exceptional strength, toughness and film clarity. Metallocenes are made of metal atoms held between two carbon rings. Dow Chemical 1953 2003 First-generation alkyl metal catalysts (TiCl3 Fermented corn sugar is converted to and AlEt2Cl) are developed for polymer- short-chain polylactic acids for use in izing alpha olefins (e.g., ethylene and plastics and fiber manufacture. propylene). Important products include Cargill; Dow LLC linear low-density polyethylene and crystalline polypropylene. Ziegler-Natta 1955-59 High-density polyethylene (1955–56), polypropylene (1957–58) and stereo- specific rubber (1958–59) are commer- cialized. Hoechst; Grace; Hercules; Phillips Polyethylene pipe extruder. 14 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP STRETCHING RESOURCES D evelopments in synthetic rubber are just one exemplar of the evolution of innovative and versatile materials brought about by chemical engineers. From the new rubbers that helped the Allies win World War II … to the thermoplastics on the soles of athletic shoes … to the Kevlar vests that protect law enforcement and troops — chemical engineers bring the world new and improved materials, replace scarce ones, and help industry to maximize available resources. Cordura rayon yarn was used for 1933 tire belting. Here, at the Spruance Rayon tire cord is introduced as Cordura. The plant outside Richmond, VA, strands are being drawn from a creel and trademark may be best recognized for its later wound up on a beam. In a textile mill use in outdoor nylon products, such as luggage the yarn was then twisted into and backpacks. cord and shipped to a tire E. I. DuPont manufacturer. Photo courtesy of DuPont. From the 1937 book "DuPont: From the Banks of the Butyl rubber, particularly known for its imperme- Brandywine to Miracles of Science," ability, is produced by polymerizing isobutylene by Adrian Kinnane. (98%) and isoprene (2%); used as tire inner tubes. Standard Oil Development 1943 Silicone elastomers are developed to replace glass fiber containing phenolic resin; used as insulating At the Shell Amsterdam laboratory, materials for electric motors and generators. a glass pressure vessel used for General Electric polymerization experiments, 1968. Photo courtesy of 1942 - 1947 Shell International, Ltd. Superior emulsion-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) produced at 5°C replaces SBR produced at 41°C, resulting in improved tires and retread compounds, and a host of industrial, military and household products. U.S. Rubber; Goodyear; Firestone 1964 Thermoplastics (e.g., shoe soles) are produced by block polymerization of styrene and anionic polyisoprene polymerization in a block sequence. Shell Chemical CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 15 MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS IN PROFUSION C hemical engineers improve the processes that make mass production possible. They play a pivotal role in the diversity and distinctive properties of consumer products, and the quantities that factories are able to produce — as well as the costs and values of the starting materials and final products. Corning Glass Works (now Corning Inc.) used advertising 1915 to educate consumers about the Highly heat- and corrosion-resistant benefits of cooking with glass. lead-free borosilicate glass is intro- duced as Pyrex. The name may Photo courtesy of Corning Inc. have been derived from the Greek "pyra" (hearth). Corning Glass 1916 Weitzman acetone-butanol fermen- tation with clostridium acetobuty- icum is used to make smokeless gunpowder. Unwanted butanol is later used as automobile lacquer. This development signaled the beginning of large biotechnologi- cal processing. Strange and Graham, Ltd. 1920 Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) is the first commercial petrochemi- cal — made from propylene by indirect hydration in sulfuric acid. Standard Oil of New Jersey Pyrex baking dish. Photo courtesy of Corning Inc. 1924 Introduction of stainless steel allowed production of nitric acid at high pressure for use in manufac- turing agricultural fertilizers, dye-stuffs and explosives. E. I. DuPont 16 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP 1926 1934 Chromium plating is invented to pro- First plant capable of extracting tect iron and steel products, such as 67-ppm bromine from seawater automobile bumpers, against rust. starts up in North Carolina. Columbia Univ. (Colin Fink) Bromine, as ethylene dibromide, is used to scavenge lead oxide 1927 deposits produced in automobile engines from tetraethyl lead (TEL) First fractionating bubble tower is added to increase octane number. introduced, supplanting inexpensive Dow Chemical but lower-capacity and less-efficient packed columns (which were intro- duced in 1889). 1941 Standard Oil Development Steam cracking is commercialized, and allowed for production of a 1931 wide range of chemical feedstocks from ethane, propane and other Beginning of tungsten powder metal- petroleum naphthas. lurgy: ductile tungsten for incandes- Standard Oil Development cent lamp filaments is produced by doping tungsten oxide before its reduction. Columbia Univ. CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 17 1946 First low-sudsing washing machine detergent, ALL, is produced; a key ingredient was ethylene oxide adduct. Monsanto 1955 Industrial synthetic diamonds are produced at 6 to 18 GPa and 5,000°C, from graphite dissolved General Electric's in a molten nickel, cobalt or iron synthetic diamond press, 1955. catalyst. Photo courtesy of Schenectady General Electric Museum and Suits-Bueche Planetarium 1959 First synthetic molecular sieve zeolite (Zeolite A) is commercialized to absorb oxygen. Union Carbide late 1960s Kevlar ballistic fabric is developed for use as body armor; it was originally intended to be steel belting in tires. Nylon had been used in WWII flak jackets. E. I. DuPont 1961 First disposable paper diaper (creped tissue in rayon/plastic liners) is developed; hydrogel-forming polymers would later provide magnitudes greater absorption (1972). Procter & Gamble; Kimberly-Clark 2004 Enhanced morphyline extractive distillation is used to recover high- purity benzene from close-boiling nonaromatics; distillation alone requires too many separate stages and excessive liquid recycle. Benzene is used to make ethylbenzene — a styrene precursor. Maxygen; DSM 18 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP MAKING FOOD MORE AVAILABLE & CONVENIENT F rom the farmer's field to the dinner table, chemical engineers contribute to the abundance of food choices available to modern consumers. Chemical engineers are responsible for putting packaged foods — cake mixes, low-fat snacks, beverages — into their most familiar and convenient forms, and they bring modern consumers increased variety, accessibility, and safety in foods. 1922 Peanut butter is commercialized after methods are developed to prevent oil separation. John Kellogg first created peanut butter for toothless patients (1890). Procter & Gamble 1942 Dehydrated, but slushy, orange juice concentrate is developed using the same WWII technology used to freeze-dry blood plasma and then penicillin for battlefront use. It was successfully marketed after the war as Minute Maid Orange Juice. National Research Council (NRC) 1950s Lumping of cake mix is eliminated by using large milling drums designed to polish aluminum foil; cake mix becomes a best-seller. Procter & Gamble 1959 Asphalt-water emulsion soil barriers are developed to increase crop yields, foster early crop emergence, minimize weed propagation and stablize arid soil. Esso Research and Engineering Co. CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 19 Olestra molecule. While normal fats consist of a glycerol molecule with 1966 three fatty acids attached, Olestra is Fried bacon analog is produced from synthesized using a sucrose molecule spun soy protein fiber. This meat fla- with up to eight fatty acid chains, voring was originally developed as a making it too large to move through car fabric (Henry Ford was a soy- the intestinal wall. Since it does not bean-use pioneer, and developed contain glycerol, and the fatty acids cannot be removed from the sucrose many industrial uses for the crop). molecule for digestion, it passes Similar spun soy fiber products would through the digestive system without be developed for ground beef, as well being absorbed. as beef and poultry chunks. Procter & Gamble 1969 Large-scale ham-, beef-, and chicken- flavored protein enters food market, e.g., Beeflike (beef), Prosage (sausage), Stripples (bacon), White Chik (chicken), and other products. Worthington Foods 1975 Soda bottles are produced from biaxially oriented terephthalate (polyethylene terephthalate; PET); a major success for the carbonated beverage industry due to PET's tough- ness, clarity and ability to be oriented. E. I. DuPont 1984 First non-toxic oil-based plant and insect spray is developed, initially for apple and pear tree pests (ORCHEX 796). ExxonMobil 1996 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves use of synthetic cooking oil (Olestra) for production of fat-free snacks. Olestra was later used in french fries and baked goods (1998). Procter & Gamble 2004 Self-rehydrating pouches that use reverse-osmosis are developed, allow- ing 99.9999% bacterial removal from any fresh water source. This permitted a 90% weight reduction in soldiers' daily 3.5-kg food supply. U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center 20 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP DELIVERING NEW MEDICINES & PROSTHETICS C hemical engineering's innovations in medical science run the gamut from antibiotics to new methods of drug delivery; from non-invasive surgery to bioengineered tissue replacement. These advances have brought us an abundant supply of penicillin, nearly painless tests for diabetes, hemodialysis, transdermal patches, and even modern sunscreen … to name only a few achievements. Chemical engineering saves lives by the millions. In 1943, a chemist examines a stack of glass flasks, each 1943 containing penicillin mold growing in a Large-scale production of penicillin wrinkled layer called a "felt." During is achieved using submerged this process, the mold exuded fermentation; mold is grown in penicillin into the growing solution, agitated and aerated tanks, rather from which it could later be extracted. than on the medium surface. Each flask contained enough mold to produce a single dose. Abbott; Lederle; Merck; Pfizer; Squibb Photo courtesy of Science and Society Picture Library 1949 The Skeggs Leonards artificial kidney becomes the first practical flat-plate dialyzer, employing negative pressure and hydrostatic ultrafiltration. Development coordinated by the The Skeggs Leonards plate dialyzer. National Institutes of Health Leonard Skeggs, PhD, and Jack Leonards, MD, developed the first parallel-flow artificial kidney at Case 1964 Western Reserve Univ. in Cleveland, First portable patient dialysis OH. Two sheets of membrane were machine is developed. sandwiched between two rubber pads The Milton Roy Model A was in order to reduce the blood volume designed to perform nocturnal and to ensure uniform distribution of home hemodialysis. blood across the membrane. The Univ. of Washington device had a very low resistance to blood flow and it could be used with- out a blood pump. The dialyzer used negative pressure — creating a siphon on the effluent of the dialyzing fluid — to remove water from the blood in the artificial kidney. Photo courtesy of Dialysis Museum Online CEP November 2008 www.aiche.org/cep 21 Implanted at the time of surgery, the biodegradable Gliadel Wafer 1977 (polifeprosan 20 with carmustine Sunscreens containing compounds (such implant) was the first commercially as oxybenzone) that absorb ultraviolet available brain cancer treatment to and/or reflect light (titanium dioxide, deliver chemotherapy directly to the zinc oxide) are invented. tumor site. The wafer minimizes U.S. Patent 4,129,645 exposure to other parts of the body, and complements standard therapies, such as surgery, radiation and circa 1982 intravenous injections. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is used Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins to produce enriched oxygen in portable Medical Institutions generators that allow patients to receive medical oxygen without sacrificing their mobility. The process was first used in air drying during the 1960s. A scanning electron micrograph Esso Research and Engineering Co. of a biodegradable scaffold circa 1985 used to bioengineer skin. Photo courtesy of FAB —Fidia Dime-sized dissolvable plastic wafers that Advanced Biopolymers release chemotherapy drugs to sites of excised brain tumors are developed. MIT; Johns Hopkins 1998 Biodegradable plastic scaffolds, capable of regenerating damaged organ tissues, e.g. skin, are produced. MIT 1998 Temperature- and flow-controlled micro- Biodegradable foam structure for fluidic reactors and subsequent micro- regeneration of bone. electrophoresis separator carry out various genetic analyses. Photo courtesy of M. Shoichet, Univ. of Michigan The Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedicine, Univ. of Toronto 2000 Painless blood sampling using micro- needle arrays, for closed-loop control of insulin infusion and continuous drug monitoring, are developed. Univ. of Texas 2006 Photosensitive silicone lenses that can be precisely and non-invasively adjusted after cataract surgery provide clearer vision in early clinical trials. Cal Tech 22 www.aiche.org/cep November 2008 CEP EMPOWERING MOORE'S LAW B ased on the insight of Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, Moore's Law describes the exponentially advancing technology of the past half-century, specifically illustrated by the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit board — a quantity that doubles approximately every two years. The personal computer, in its various forms, has become the ubiquitous representation of digital technology's penetration into every facet of our existence. Some believe that Moore's Law is finally approaching its limit, but the law is evident in the capacity of our digital electronic devices, from laptop processing speed to the number of pixels in digital cameras. 1950s Ferrous-oxide-coated magnetic tape (0.5 in. wide by 1,200/2,400 ft. long) becomes the de facto standard for com- puters. In the 1980s, thinner Mylar film would allow for 3,600-ft. long tapes. 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HPDE instructor Nick gives us his review on the F82 M4 after providing hotlaps in the car to attendees of the Coronado Speedfest.
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Lionsgate Films
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images and thematic material.
Running time: 123 minutes.
Two stars out of four.
Despite its action and revelations, its substantial political allegory and its strong performances from a tremendous cast, "The Hunger Games: Mockingkay — Part 1″ still feels like one long placeholder. It's an elaborate game of hurry-up-and-wait. And it's the most shameless example yet of splitting the final book in a hugely popular series into two film adaptations.
The "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" franchises took the same approach with some success. Actually, the absolute last "Twilight" movie is so exciting in such an insane way that deviates so daringly from the text, it almost excuses all the films that preceded it. "Mockingjay — Part 1″ features some tweaks and expansion of its own in bringing the third book in Suzanne Collins' trilogy to the screen, but they do little to enhance the story. More often, they feel like filler, and they make the split seem like a rather transparent attempt to cash in twice. (And it worked: "Mockingjay — Part 1″ made an estimated $123 million in its opening weekend.)
Director Francis Lawrence's movie has some smarts and some thrills, but too often it feels like a turgid, repetitive slog, especially compared to the excitement and the cliffhanger ending of its predecessor, "Catching Fire" (which Lawrence also directed). Still, as the heroic teen Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence once again engages us by finding that tricky balance between bravery and vulnerability. Considering the diverse and mature work she's done amid the "Hunger Games" movies, from "Silver Linings Playbook" to "American Hustle" to "X-Men: Days of Future Past," it's a pleasant change to see her looking young and fresh-faced again. At the same time, it feels like she's moved beyond this YA-novel, futuristic dystopia by now.
This time, Katniss must serve as the reluctant face and voice of the revolution that is sweeping across Panem. The games are over, and we now know that the man who devised the sadistic competition, Plutarch Heavensbee (the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, to whom the film is dedicated), is a key figure in the rebellion. Katniss, her mother and her younger sister, Prim, are now among the refugees in the secret rebel headquarters of District 13, a massive underground bunker led by the all-business President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, in an extremely different "Boogie Nights" reunion with Hoffman). The massively overqualified cast does so much to elevate this material beyond its familiar, post-apocalyptic trappings. There's a scene in which Hoffman, Moore and Jeffrey Wright (returning as gadget guru Beetee) are sitting around a conference table in the District 13 war room, strategizing with Lawrence as Katniss, which feels way more substantive than it might through the sheer presence of these performers.
The political satire element of "Mockingjay — Part 1″ is its strength. In order to rally the people to persevere and push on with their fight, Katniss must star in a series of propaganda films. She must become the Mockingjay — the physical symbol of strength and hope — complete with a high-tech outfit, special effects and inspirational (but fake) background footage. Hoffman serves as the shrewd and sardonic puppetmaster. But another key member of Katniss' team is her old Capitol escort, Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), now deglammed in the same drab wardrobe as the rest of the folks who are lucky to be alive in 13. Effie doesn't even appear in this section of the book, but Banks' playful flamboyance is a welcome source of humor in this otherwise dour setting. (And while this was probably unintentional, her appearance in a makeshift turban is reminiscent of Jared Leto's transsexual turn in "Dallas Buyers Club.")
At its best, this subplot calls to mind the sharply cynical commentary of Barry Levinson's "Wag the Dog," with its fabricated war. But then, "Mockingjay — Part 1″ believes its own hype and sends Katniss out into real scenes of battle and squalor in hopes of achieving a sense of authenticity. While Katniss' willingness to set out among the people provides some disturbing and violent images, it also smothers the film in a suffocating sameness. The carnage and destruction in District 8 looks like District 13 looks like District 2. Every place she goes, Katniss scales a pile of bone and rubble, only to reach the top and realize there's even more, as far as the eye can see. While Lawrence is more than capable of displaying a fiery presence, too often she's relegated to furrowing her brow in sadness.
While the rebellion's team is penetrating the airwaves with its feisty messages, the creepy and tyrannical President Snow (Donald Sutherland) responds in kind, airing interviews between game show host Caesar Flickerman (an underused Stanley Tucci) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), Katniss' former competitor-turned-companion. Turns out he's alive, and he's become the Capitol's mouthpiece. Still, Katniss finds herself once again torn emotionally between this twisted version of Peeta and good, old reliable Gale (Liam Hemsworth), her childhood best friend. The hunky Gale is clearly the correct choice for her, although both dudes remain woefully bland.
The "Hunger Games" series has never been about Katniss' inner conflict in the midst of a love triangle, though. It's been about her being a bad-ass and defining herself not by a man but by her own actions, either through a selfless gesture or her strength with a bow and arrow. Yet in the most dangerous sequence in "Mockingjay — Part 1," she's stuck staring in frustration at a series of television monitors while the men carry out a "Zero Dark Thirty"-style rescue mission.
She — and we — will have to wait for her to reclaim her glory a year from now in "Mockingjay — Part 2."
Nov 21
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Rated PG for some thematic elements.
Running time: 80 minutes.
Zero stars out of four.
Let's just set aside the ideology for a second. We'll get to that, I promise.
Purely from a technical perspective — from a perspective of sheer craft — "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas" is hilarious in its ineptitude. It feels simultaneously slapped together and padded. It is "The Room" of Christmas movies. Actually, "The Room" is more enjoyable. But you get the idea.
Even with a climactic, overlong dance sequence to a hip-hop version of "Angels We Have Heard on High" (and I wish I were making that up), "Saving Christmas" feels desperately stretched to reach a respectable running time. It is barely 80 minutes long. It feels much, much longer.
Didactic dialogue, stiff performances, flat jokes, baffling camera angles, inexplicable editing choices and lighting and sound values that are below those of a high school AV club project — these are the hallmarks of this laughably cheesy production aimed at Christian audiences. Between this, "Moms' Night Out" and "Persecuted" this year alone, I remain baffled as to why these films tend to look so shoddy.
As you might be able to surmise from the title, Cameron — the "Growing Pains" child actor of the 1980s turned evangelist — serves as executive producer and star. Darren Doane is the director, co-writer and co-star. Large chunks of the film consist of the two men sitting in the front seat of a minivan outside a house where Doane's character — the conveniently named Christian — is seething while a gaudy Christmas party rages inside. And by "rages," I mean it features kids running around, a dude dressed in a Santa Claus costume, a stereotypically sassy black friend and plenty of extras looking straight into the camera.
Cameron's character, whose name just happens to be Kirk, has walked outside to find out what's troubling Christian, who's married to his sister (Bridgette Ridenour, who is often shot standing behind the island in the kitchen, partially obscured by poinsettias). Kirk is helpful enough to narrate the fact that he's walking outside to see what's troubling Christian; then again, he narrates everything that's going on and repeatedly spells out everything we're supposed to be thinking and feeling.
Seems Christian is irked by the materialistic orgy the holiday has become. He can't find any references to Santa Claus or Christmas trees in the Bible. These are pagan traditions. The reason for the season has been eviscerated (my word, not his). He wants to put the Christ back in Christmas.
Without missing a beat, Kirk goes back through the Bible and cherry picks details and passages that validate modern-day Christmas iconography. Never mind that these arguments don't jibe with either religious or historical teachings. Kirk is flipping the script in totally selective ways to suit his purposes and those of the film. Each of these examples comes illustrated with a fantasy sequence that looks as if it was shot in someone's backyard. And at the end of each one, Christian says something along the lines of, "You know what? You're right. I never thought of it that way." Case closed.
Basically, the moral of the story is that we should embrace the excess of Christmas — the presents and the feasts and the lavish parties — because it's the manifestation of God's love in material form. In one of Kirk's many lengthy voiceovers, he insists that we should buy the biggest ham and cook with the richest butter when we sit down with family and friends to enjoy our Christmas dinner. On second thought, this is the only part of the film that actually makes any sense.
Anyway, this movie might be a lot of fun if you watched it with a group of friends over beers. Cameron mentions hot cocoa so many times throughout the course of the film's 80 minutes, it could be a drinking game. I attended a matinee with five other people at a depressing theater in Burbank, the only place in Los Angeles showing "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas." Trudging out afterward, I did not sense that any of us were newly filled with the holy spirit.
Nov 21
This beautiful and beautifully strange animated film, which originally was released in France in 1980, has taken a long and tortured road to reach the United States. It's a surreal satire of the perils of tyranny, told in twisted fairy tale form. Try and find it if it comes anywhere near you. My RogerEbert.com review.
Nov 20
The first half of the film adaptation of the third book in "The Hunger Games" trilogy feels like a stretched-out placeholder for the real finale. Jennifer Lawrence is strong as always, though, as Katniss, who's now the reluctant symbol of hope for the revolution.


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