Industrial Engineering/Chemistry

The AAPP 2019 conference brought together outstanding researchers in the field of plasma physicsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University "A big day for science and for all mankind" - this is how Mikhail TENDLER,…

Pitt researchers find new, lower-cost way to separate valuable ethylene from ethane gas PITTSBURGH (Sept. 23, 2019) -- From soda bottles to polyester clothing, ethylene is part of many products we use every day. In part to meet demand, the…

Scientists find new way to capture heat that otherwise would have been lost COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity. The discovery, published last week in the…

Study finds climate change, increased demand could limit available resources COLUMBUS, Ohio -Climate change and over-tapped waterways could leave developing parts of Asia without enough water to cool power plants in the near future, new…

Credit: Takeshi Fujimoto, Taro Kawasaki, and Keiichi Kitamura, Yokohama National University As a fighter jet quickly ascends and accelerates forward, a sonic boom reverberates across the jet's surface and through the surrounding…

Pitt researchers create first universal computer model for metal nanoparticle adsorption PITTSBURGH (Sept. 18, 2019) -- Metal nanoparticles have a wide range of applications, from medicine to catalysis, from energy to the environment. But…

Toward realization of lightweight and high strength structural materialsCredit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Single-walled carbon nanotubes should theoretically be extremely strong, but it remains unclear why their…

Credit: David Kelly Crow In a series of lab tests, a relatively common soil bacterium has demonstrated its ability to break down the difficult-to-remove class of pollutants called PFAS, researchers at Princeton University said. The…

Prior evaluation of crystal structure analysis using a small data setCredit: ©Manabu Hoshino A research team from Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), RIKEN, and the University of Tokyo developed a novel data analysis method…

PITTSBURGH (September 16, 2019) -- The Stephen R. Tritch Nuclear Engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering has received three substantial grants from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Nuclear…