Chemical engineering & processing

News and Updates

NIST’s NanoFab Reopens its Doors to Universities, Industry, and Research Institutions

April 3, 2023

In the Lilliputian world of nanofabrication, where billions of microscopic circuit elements are sculpted or imprinted on a fingernail-sized silicon chip

This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks

November 2, 2022

An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.

A woman (Callie Higgins) stands in front of a piece of photopolymerization equipment.

NIST’s Callie Higgins Wins Service to America Medal

October 28, 2021

Callie I. Higgins, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America

Projects and Programs

NCNR DAC and CCUS efforts

Ongoing

Overview Capture of carbon dioxide from the air (direct air capture; DAC) combined with energy efficiency and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)

Conceptual Art of Gas Molecules Adsorbed in a Zeolite Adsorbent

NIST Data Resources for Adsorption

Ongoing

NIST provides data resources related to adsorption of both gases and liquids on solid adsorbents through the NIST Data Resources for Adsorption Science and

Multiscale structure and dynamics in advanced technological materials

Ongoing

This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for characterizing microstructure and dynamics in advanced functional materials of technological

Understanding Flow Meters

Ongoing

Accurate flow measurements are needed for test fluids, temperatures, pressures, flows, and installation conditions that differ from those used during NIST's

Publications

Investigation of Cure Kinetics of Advanced Epoxy Molding Compound Using Dynamic Heating Scan: An Overlooked Second Reaction

August 3, 2023

Author(s)

Ran Tao, Sukrut Prashant Phansalkar, Aaron M. Forster, Bongtae Han

Cure kinetics of epoxy molding compounds (EMCs) is a fundamental material property that affects the molding process of semiconductor chips and final package

Prediction of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Properties for Liquid Hydrocarbons from Hydrotreating Biomass Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Derived Organic Intermediates

April 11, 2023

Author(s)

Suphat Watanasiri, Kristiina Iisa, Eugene Paulechka, Earl Christensen, Chris Muzny, Abhijit Dutta

Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) of wood, woody residues, and agricultural waste has the potential to produce organic liquid intermediates that can be

Superancillary Equations for Nonpolar Pure Fluids Modeled with the PC-SAFT Equation of State

January 23, 2023

Author(s)

Ian Bell, Ulrich Deiters

Superancillary equations are presented for the PC-SAFT equation of state of Gross and Sadowski for nonpolar pure fluids. The equations cover the range of a

Linking viscosity to equation of state using residual entropy scaling theory

October 13, 2022

Author(s)

Xiaoxian Yang, Xiong Xiao, Monika Thol, Markus Richter, Ian Bell

In our previous work, a residual entropy scaling (RES) approach was developed to link viscosity to residual entropy (a thermodynamic property calculated with an