It's Chemical Engineering, Jim, but not as we know it
Friday 1 October 2010
The 2010 Danckwerts lecture was given in November at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City by the President of ISIE, Roland Clift. The title of the lecture, whose text will be published in “Chemical Engineering Science”, was “Chemical Engineering Outside the Pipe: Industrial Ecology and Sustainability”.
Roland interprets this as significant recognition for industrial ecology: “The previous Danckwerts lecturers have all been more-or-less conventional chemical engineers. The fact I was invited to give the 2010 Danckwerts lecture means that the chemical engineering community has recognised not just the existence but the significance of industrial ecology.” The lecture was “concerned with explaining the emerging field of Industrial Ecology and why it represents a new and important area for application of the skills of the chemical engineer."
The following website includes the coverage of Roland’s lecture on the AIChE blog: http://chenected.aiche.org/sustainability/professor-roland-clift-on-industrial-ecology-and-sustainability/