Chemical Engineering
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BYU engineering research finds key to quicker nuclear power: artificial intelligence
A BYU professor has figured out a way to shave years off the complicated design and licensing processes for modern nuclear reactors: artificial intelligence. That's right, nuclear power is teaming up with AI — but don't worry, no one is giving AI the nuclear codes.
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A mother, a mission, a major, two minors and a lot of plants
It was an Education Week workshop that gave Alyssa Bagoyo the courage to major in chemical engineering and pay tribute to her late mom’s BYU degree and heritage by minoring in business and Japanese.
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BYU profs create new micro nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely
BYU professor and nuclear engineering expert Matthew Memmott and his colleagues have designed a new system for nuclear energy production: a molten salt micro-nuclear reactor that may solve meltdown risks.
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Dead trees in Utah forests are a wildfire hazard; BYU researchers found a way to use them as biomass for power plants
Researchers at BYU have worked to develop new ways to convert dead, decaying trees into a fuel that can be used in coal power plants, and as a result, also reduce net carbon emissions.
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BYU blood test can detect presence of deadly superbugs in less than one hour
Four BYU professors across four disciplines — molecular biology, chemistry, integrated optics and chemical processing — have created a method to extract superbugs from whole blood, prep them for testing and then provide a diagnosis all in under one hour.
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Fire research from BYU creating better, faster models to predict how wildfires burn
New Department of Defense-sponsored research from BYU’s Fire Research Lab is getting into the microscopic details of how fast wildfires burn.
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BYU home to nation's best chemical engineering student
BYU professor also wins prestigious chemical engineering honor
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BYU researchers develop a new wildfire smoke emissions model
Hazy, smoke-filled skies can have serious health effects
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This desert plant defies gravity by collecting water upside-down with tiny leaf hairs
Syntrichia caninervis (aka seriously awesome desert moss) uses tiny hair-like structures on its leaves to absorb water from the atmosphere until droplets form and flow to the leaf. And sometimes it does it upside-down.
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BYU researchers speeding up process of making vaccines
Researchers at BYU have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses.
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BYU's mentoring factory: Getting undergraduates into research
Giving undergraduate students research opportunities is a priority at BYU. Alonzo Cook takes that charge very seriously. Cook, a chemical engineering professor, has 86 undergraduate students working in his lab.
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BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon
This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it.
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