Welcome to our local section home page, where you'll find our program listing,  section news, job openings and helpful links. The Cleveland Section has been in existence for more than 50 years. It is here to provide local focus, content, and direction to AIChE's activities. The objectives of the AIChE Cleveland Section are to advance and to reinforce the engineering arts and sciences related to the theory and practice of Chemical Engineering as it meets the needs of society.

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Earn up to 6 CPD Hours on Monday, December 8, at the DoubleTree Hotel Cleveland South in Independence, Ohio, where we are hosting "The Engineer in Today's Economy." (Click on link for program details.) For this one-day course, the speakers are Tim Panzica, LEED A.P., Erick Zanner, M.S., Economics, and Hank Reder, A.I.A., Esq.

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The Career link on this web site includes positions forwarded to our section as well as local recruiters and job posting services. The Cleveland Engineering Society also maintains a job posting.

2008-2009 AIChE Cleveland Section Program

Last Meeting: Tue. Oct. 7, 2008 Joseph Hensel CEO of Polyflow Corp. Hoggy's (Valley View)

TOPIC: Polyflow Corporation is commercializing a technology based upon Ohio’s strengths in polymers and advanced materials. The Polyflow chemistry has been proven and is now on demonstration in Akron.

• 94% of all plastic and rubber ends up in landfills.

• No one can sort plastics. Difficult to identify by type. Labor intensive.

• Industry increases value by making copolymers, co-molding and co-extrusion. This makes plastics more difficult to recycle with the classic methods.

• The plastics industry is under environmental pressure (bag bans, Styrofoam container bans).

• The industry is struggling with the high cost and un-stable prices of raw materials.

• Polyflow can crack mixed post-consumer and post-industrial plastics and rubber wastes and will produce gasoline blend stock and hydrocarbon raw materials for polymer manufacturers and the petrochemical industry.

• Polyflow’s customers will be the manufacturers of plastic resins, rubber, adhesives, household and industrial cleaners, paints and the gasoline blenders.

• Polyflow’s suppliers will be the municipalities, waste collectors and haulers, and commercial and industrial polymer waste generators.

 Polyflow Corporation was incorporated in 2005 in Akron, Ohio and is headquartered in the Akron Global Business Accelerator. Polyflow’s business is based upon the application of advanced polymer technology invented and developed by a graduate of the University of Akron, and advanced by Ohio Polymer Enterprise Development.

 A full size ½ ton processor is currently being run in technology demonstrations. World wide patents are pending. US patent has issued.

• Polyflow’s feedstock is mixed polymer waste.  

• Polyflow’s products are high value raw materials for polymers.

• Polyflow will stabilize the cost of raw materials for the polymer industry.

• Polyflow will reduce the cost of waste disposal for the municipalities and industry.

• Polyflow will reduce greenhouse gas emissions 70% versus polymer waste incineration.

• Polyflow will reduce our dependence upon foreign oil.  

• Polyflow will create jobs in Ohio.

Past Meeting: Wed., Sept. 17, 2008

Oil and Gas Drilling, Mike McCormac of Division of Mineral Resources Management. 
A presentation about Ohio Oil and Natural Gas Wells was given by Mike McCormac of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The presentation provided an overview of permitting, drilling and production with an emphasis on Cuyahoga County. Recent activity was compared to ten-year trends. A general overview of the drilling and well construction process was described.

Past Meeting: Centennial Celebration

The Cleveland Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) hosted a Cleveland Centennial Celebration on Thursday, March 27, 2008.  This event included local companies in the Greater Cleveland Area that employ chemical engineers, with representatives hosting booths with information about their companies and what chemical engineers do at their companies.  Booths were hosted by 

• Ben Venue Laboratories

• Go Jo 

• Lubrizol 

• Middough 

• Nalco 

• OSI Soft

• The Cleveland State University 

• URS 

 We had about 60 guests and 20 people staffing booths.  The presentation titled "Building an Advanced Energy Industry in Cleveland” provided by Richard Stuebi of the Cleveland Foundation added interest for the the students and their families. 

   

 

Other Professional Information:

• 100 Centennial for Professional Engineers: Article from NSPE

• GreenCityBlueLake is the interactive online home for all the discussions and activities that are moving Northeast Ohio toward greater sustainability. It's a community workspace, networking tool, knowledge bank, and facilitator of strategic planning. And you can participate!

• The Clinic goes green: The region's largest employer, the Cleveland Clinic, is moving rapidly to green its buildings and operations—and to think more deeply about what it means to be a green hospital system that promotes wellness of people and planet. Go here for a conversation with the new director of the Clinic's Office for a Healthy Environment.

• We're hiring to protect the climate!
  Northeast Ohio needs help planning its transition to a carbon-neutral future, so the Center for Regional Sustainability at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is hiring a climate action plan coordinator. See the job description here.