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Chemical Engineering Alumni News Chemical Engineering massachusetts i n s t i t u t e Alumni News o f t e c h n o l o g y Spring 2008 r oom 66-350 • Fax: 617.258.8992 Course X From thE head oF thE DepArtment... Professor Klavs F. Jensen Head, MIT Chemical Engineering Welcome to the Spring 2008 edition of the Alumni industry to continuous manufacturing processes. Novartis Newsletter. The department continues to maintain its will invest $65 million in research activities at MIT over ChemE graduate students leadership role in the profession, with high productivity the next 10 years. Bernhardt Trout, who skillfully led Joel Moxley and Andy Peterson walk sand dunes and visibility in education and research. As a measure the formation of the center, is the center’s director; the in Saudi Arabia (Page 20). of the vitality of our sponsored research programs, initial research projects involve additional faculty from expenditures were over $27 million for the fiscal year chemical engineering (Charlie Cooney, Alan Hatton, ending June 30, 2007. Moreover, several new research Greg McRae, myself) and chemistry. Bernhardt also initiatives are starting, including several in energy co-chairs the Department of Chemical Engineering’s conversion and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Singapore–MIT Alliance-II program, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, which focuses on metabolic Faculty are actively participating in the MIT Energy engineering, chemical catalysis, and downstream processing Initiative (MITEI) with Bob Armstrong as the Initiative’s relevant to pharmaceutical research and manufacturing. Deputy Director and Jeff Tester co-chairing the Education task force. Jeff also coauthored the study, “The Future of Arup Chakraborty has established a new consortium Geothermal Energy,” sponsored by the U.S. Department (funded by the NIH) called the Immune Response of Energy. Greg McRae and János Beér were members Consortium, which involves nine principal investigators of the interdisciplinary MIT study, “The Future of from seven institutions. This consortium brings together Coal - Options for a Carbon Constrained World.” Greg theory and computation (based on statistical physics and Stephanopoulos and Kristala Prather play key roles in the engineering analysis of chemical kinetics) with genetic, biofuels research. Bill Green co-chairs the newly funded biochemical, and imaging experiments to understand the BP Advanced Conversion Research Project, which also mechanisms underlying T cell activation. Arup also won involves Paul Barton and Michael Strano, among others. the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to initiate a major Along with Paula Hammond, Michael is also active in new research direction aimed toward understanding the MITEI’s research on nanomaterials for solar power. principles underlying T cell mediated autoimmunity. ALSo IN THIS ISSUE: The students are also engaging challenges of energy News from the Head. 1 conversions. For example, senior chemical engineering The department faculty continues to show leadership students contributed to the coal study through their and participation in established programs. Bob Cohen Practice School News. 2 capstone design project in integrated chemical engineering and Karen Gleason are associate directors in the DuPont 2006 Chemical Engineering Fellowships. 6 (ICE). Furthermore, junior Joe Roy-Mayhew was part of MIT Alliance and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, the team “Biodiesel@MIT” that won the GE/MTVU’s respectively. Both successful programs are now in their Awards Ceremony. 7 Ecomagination Challenge. More details about these second five-year funding cycles. Charlie Cooney is the New Faculty Appointments. 8 research activities appear in the newsletter. faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Faculty Awards Highlights. 10 Innovation, which supports projects in a wide range of Faculty Distinctions. 12 On September 28, 2007, Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman emerging technologies, including several sponsored projects ChemE Connection. 16 and CEO of Novartis, and MIT President Susan in chemical engineering. George Stephanopoulos is the Lectureships and Events . 22 Hockfield inaugurated the Novartis-MIT Center for co-director of the newly formed BP Operations Academy, Continuous Manufacturing. The Center combines the which parallels the BP Projects Academy in which Charlie News from Alumni . 26 industrial expertise of Novartis with MIT scientific and Cooney and Greg McRae have been active participants. Alumni Donors . 28 technological innovation with the aim of transforming Research Highlights. 31 conventional batch-based systems in the pharmaceuticals see page 5 GSC-X 2006-2007 News. 35 Practice School News By Professor T. Alan Hatton The David H. Koch School the corporation may best be described as a commodities of Chemical Engineering supplier in this market. Their products are well known Practice has provided a unique to farmers, livestock producers, food manufacturers, food opportunity for generations service distributors and retailers, pharmaceutical and dietary of chemical engineers (over supplement companies, and investors. nine decades worth!) to hone their technical leadership skills This latest station involved working on a total of six projects through augmentation of on-campus academic coursework with the Process Solutions Technology Development with immersion in high-profile industrial projects at Center. The projects selected by Cargill afforded us host company sites. And we continue to do so, attracting opportunities to learn a great deal and provided useful input top students from around the country and the world to to their corporate mission. In the first session the projects participate in the program. During the summer of 2006, covered the range of Cargill’s Project Delivery Process, sixteen students attended stations in Minneapolis, MN; which advances through feasibility, development, and Billerica, MA; and Basel, Switzerland. For the 2006- product/process launch phases. Our assignments involved 2007 academic year, 15 students worked on projects in a conceptual design/feasibility study for the utilization of Minneapolis, MN; Harlow, UK; and Basel, Switzerland. reactive distillation coupled with unique processing steps to Thank you to our host companies who have helped provide improve a bio-based production system, proof-of-concept the kind of education that only these hands-on, real-world experiments for implementing a new strategy in a pilot plant challenges can offer! aimed at improving product quality for a better market edge, and development of dynamic models used to evaluate process intensification systems. The second session involved The Stations three projects, each requiring significant reaction engineering skills. Catalyst deactivation, reactor design and performance The number of companies with whom we have worked over evaluations were the focal points. Pilot plant and laboratory the past year have provided our students with exposure to a scale studies were performed. The former was a continuation variety of different industrial practices and a range of different project and focused on energy savings while the two lab scale technical challenges as described briefly. efforts were directed to optimize performance of vendor- suggested alternatives for (1) a catalytic process and (2) The Cabot Station, Billerica, MA (Summer 2006), a resin based separation scheme. Directed by William Dalzell The Novartis Station, Basel, Switzerland (Summer 2006, Cabot Corporation hosted the Practice School for the Spring 2007), Directed by Claude Lupis months of June and August 2006. Cabot is the world’s leading producer of carbon black, which is used in tires, Eight students attended the station over the summer of other rubber products, and elastomers. They also make ’06, which was our fifth session at Novartis and the third fumed metal oxides, inkjet pigments, and specialty metals in Basel, Switzerland. The first session was devoted to two and fluids. In June, the projects involved a study of the projects and the group was divided into two teams of four. kinetics of rubber vulcanization using HPLC, the mechanism The first project focused on potential opportunities offered of how dispersants and low polarity liquids interact with by nanotechnologies for the pharmaceutical industry, small particles, and the kinetics of the reactions involved in while the second project investigated recent advances in modifying the surface chemistry of pigments. The working production technologies that could benefit production environment at Cabot is highly technical, enthusiastic, processes at Novartis. In the second session, four projects and interactive. Billerica is home to some great restaurants were undertaken by four teams of two. The projects ranged including an excellent Indian restaurant and one of the best from the development of online sensors for chemical analyses Chinese restaurants in the Boston area. and particle size distributions to the stability testing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient and the development of The Cargill Station, Wayzata, MN (Summer 2006), an economic model to assess the improvements made to a Directed by Robert J. Fisher process through the several stages of its development. Cargill is an international provider of food, agricultural, The excellent support from the Novartis staff, despite the and risk management products and services with 124,000 fact that many were away due to the summer holidays, employees in 59 countries. The Cargill brand may not be greatly assisted the work of the
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