Using the Bakken shale play as a case study, the previous part of this two-part series demonstrated how small-scale mobile plants could be used to monetize associated or stranded gas effectively. In the follow-up (free access provided until March 25, 2016), the issue of uncertainty in future supply, demand and price conditions is addressed. The multi-period…

Jose Alberto Gomez has been awarded a fellowship from the University Center of Exemplary Mentoring. This fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral students from underrepresented minorities and provides career path guidance with the aim of diversifying U.S. faculties in mathematics, sciences, and engineering.

New journal articles authored by current and former members of PSEL have now appeared online with free access provided for a period of time: Generalized derivatives of dynamic systems with a linear program embedded in Automatica (click here, access provided until December 31, 2015). Generalized derivatives of dynamic systems with a linear program embedded are found. Applications include…

Paul Barton is an author of a “Top Cited AIChE Journal Paper”. For the list of most cited papers of the AIChE Journal from 2010 to 2013, click here.

We are pleased to announce that Benoit Chachuat, a former PSEL postdoctoral fellow, and Ruth Misener, a former PSEL UROP, are recipients of the 2014 AIChE CAST Division Awards. Benoit has won the CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award while Ruth has won the W. David Smith, Jr. Graduation Publication Award. Congratulations! For more information about these awards, click…

The team of researchers at the MIT-Novartis Continuous Manufacturing Center has won the 2014 Council for Chemical Research Collaboration Award. This award celebrates the Center as an example of collaboration among university, industry and government laboratories which accelerates success for the collaborating partners and is beneficial to the country. For more on this story, click here.…

Kamil Khan has been awarded the Argonne National Laboratory's 2014 Director’s Fellowship with the Mathematics and Computing Science Division. These awards are granted to outstanding scientists and engineers who show potential for being leaders in their fields. Kamil was selected from among many distinguished candidates for this prestigious appointment. The fellowship is awarded annually and may be renewed through…

Paul Barton has been announced as a recipient of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Seed Fund grant. These grants support early-stage innovative energy projects across MIT. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, selected out of a total of 49 proposals, which came from 65 faculty and research staff from 18…

In collaboration with Novartis, a team of MIT researchers, including Paul I. Barton from the PSEL, has presented the first example of an 18-square-meter factory that produces the hypertension drug aliskiren in an end-to-end integrated continuous manufacturing process. Producing a continuous stream of drugs from their raw materials potentially saves time and money over traditional…

Joseph K. Scott and Paul I. Barton have received the Computers & Chemical Engineering Most Cited Articles 2010-2012 Award for their paper "Tight, efficient bounds on the solutions of chemical kinetics models". This paper developed an efficient method for computing time-varying, component-wise bounds on the solutions of chemical kinetics models subject to an interval of permissible…