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Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
The newly created Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering has a focus on environmental engineering science, energy systems, and chemical engineering. The department provides integrated and multidisciplinary programs of scientific education. The department offers a curriculum of fundamental education coupled with application in an advanced focal area and is strengthened by its breadth in other disciplinary areas. Students participate in cutting-edge research with faculty and industrial partners and have access to state-of-the-art facilities. The program is also affiliated with the Environmental Studies Program.
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Workaholic
Single-celled bacterium works 24-7, converting light to energy by day, moonlighting at night
April 28,
2008 -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight into the way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a type of cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) known to cycle between photosynthesis during the day and nitrogen fixation at night.
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In the mix
Research aims to produce energy on the farm
April 15,
2008 --
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| Muthanna Al-Dahhan (left) and graduate student Rajneesh Varma are researching effective ways to take agricultural waste and make biofuel out of it. |
Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm wastes treatment. They are studying ways to take "the smell of money," as farmers long have termed manure's odor, and produce biogas from it.
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Mixed culture
New techniques create butanol
Jan. 15,
2008 --
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| Lars Angenent in his lab. |
A team of researchers headed by Lars Angenent, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.
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Jay Turner
Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering
Jay R. Turner, associate professor in chemical engineering with a joint appointment in civil engineering, focuses his research on such topics as environmental reaction engineering and environmental chemical analysis. He is the Principal Investigator for both the Midwest Fine Particulate Matter Supersite ...
Expertise: environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, environmental reaction engineering, environmental chemical analysis, air pollutant sampling and characterization, stationary source air pollution, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5480
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jrturner@seas.wustl.edu
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Pratim Biswas
Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor
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Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...
Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu
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John Kardos
Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor of Chemical Engineering
The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor of Chemical Engineering is an expert in composite materials and their applications ranging from the construction industry to medical uses. Kardos has been on the Washington University faculty for more than 30 years, serving in a variety of capacities. He began ...
Expertise: aerospace, composite materials, fiber-reinforced resin laminate
Direct contact: (314) 935-6062
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kardos@che.wustl.edu
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New study advances method to make energy from farm waste
Associated Press
and 81 others
April 17,
2008 -- WUSTL engineers, including WUSTL chemical engineering professor Muthanna Al-Dahhan, using imaging technology have found that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into alternative energy.
The goal is to produce a simple method that farmers can use to treat their waste and generate energy.
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Eat less for a youthful heart
Hindustan Times (India)
and 5 others
Jan. 11,
2008 -- WUSTL medical school scientists examined a group of healthy, overweight but not obese, middle-aged men and women and found that a yearlong regimen of either calorie restriction or exercise increase had positive effects on their heart function. WUSTL professor and study senior author Sandor Kovacs comments.
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Technique controls nanoparticle size, creates large numbers
Nanotechnology Now online
and 2 others
Dec. 4,
2007 -- WUSTL chemical engineering professor Pratim Biswas has a method that controls the size of the nanoparticles he makes, opening up possibilities for new nanotechnology applications and different techniques.
Biswas described the technique and his work in a recent issue of Nanotechnology.
He is currently collaborating with WUSTL radiology professor Sam Achilefu, who is working to selectively deliver chemotherapy drugs in cancer patients.
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Depression: hidden cause of heart attack?
The Wall Street Journal
and 2 others
April 26,
2004 -- You may have one of the biggest risk factors for heart attack, and your doctor doesn't even know it. While doctors screening for heart problems know to monitor smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, few pay attention to a potentially more serious foe: depression. "In cardiology there have been dozens of studies done on hypertension," said Kenneth Freedland, professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, who has been studying the link between depression and heart disease since the 1980s. "We need to make sure the public and medical community understand that this is an important problem, too."
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