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Technical Program

All events will take place in the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, located within the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston.



Day 0 

Monday, June 3

  
     
3:00 PM 5:00 PM Members meeting - Private event, by invitation only
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Badge Pickup Opens
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Welcome Reception
     

Day 1

Tuesday, June 4

  
8:15 AM 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee
8:30 AM 8:45 AM Introduction to Event 

Ignasi Palou-Rivera, Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer, RAPID Manufacturing Institute®
8:45 AM 9:15 AM Plenary Address 

Ramanan Krishnamoorti,  Vice President, Energy and Innovation at University of Houston
9:15 AM 9:30 AM Coffee Break
9:30 AM 10:30 AM Panel 1: Commodity Chemicals

Moderator: Joe Powell, Director, University of Houston Energy Transition Institute

Laurent Fenouil, Global Sustainability Technical Integration Manager, Shell Chemicals and Products

Mike Curtis, Carbon and Energy Technology Principal, Dow

Jennifer Port, Chief of Process Sustainability, ExxonMobil

Kristin Powell, Chemical Industry Technical Consultant, Energetics; Contractor, U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO)

Pingping Sun, Group Leader - Hydrogen and Electrification, Argonne National Laboratory
10:30 AM 11:30 AM Facilitated Workshop: Commodity Chemicals

What are the technology barriers preventing the commodity chemicals industry from meeting decarbonization or sustainability goals? 
11:30 AM 12:30 PM Lunch
12:30 PM 1:00 PM

Lightning Round - Selected Abstracts

Iván Cabeza, Universidad de La Sabana: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Cheesemaking By Cheese Whey and Cattle Manure Anaerobic Co-Digestion Under Psychrophilic Conditions

Mohammad Ruzlan Habib, Texas A&M University: Batchwise Pyrolytic Conversions of Waste Plastics and Used Rubber Tires and Oil Refinement Using Plasma Treatment

Anurag Mandalika, Louisiana State University: Potential for Clean Hydrogen Demand in Louisiana

Kirti Richa, ExxonMobil: Carbon Footprint Assessment of Production of Ethylene from U.S. Corn Ethanol

Elmer Ledesma, University of Houston: Decarbonizing Steam-Methane Reforming: Electrification Via Joule Heating of Catalyst-Coated Wires

Jerry Springs, Johnson Matthey: Catalyzing to Net Zero
1:00 PM 2:00 PM

Panel 2: Specialty Chemicals

Moderator: Glenn Cormack, Process Innovation Manager & Technical Fellow, The Lubrizol Corporation

Jack Reese, Director, Process Research, Covestro

Tanmay Soni, Senior Energy & Sustainability Specialist/Tech. Manager at 3M

Goetz Vesser, Associate Director, University of Pittsburgh Center for Energy

Narayan Ramesh, Senior Research & Development Director, Global Analytical Sciences, Core R&D at Dow
2:00 PM 3:00 PM Facilitated Workshop: Specialty Chemicals

What are the technology barriers preventing the specialty chemicals industry from meeting decarbonization or sustainability goals? 
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM 4:15 PM

Panel 3: Low Carbon Fuels

Moderator: Meltem Demirtas, Principal Environmental Engineer and ANL-BETO Relationship Manager

Debalina Sengupta, Coastal Resilience Program Director, Texas Sea Grant at Texas A&M

Michael LaFollette, Director of Strategic Business Development at Gevo

Michael Turner, Texas Innovation Center Site Director and R&D Director Ethylene Envelope New Technology Development at Dow
4:15 PM 5:15 PM Facilitated Workshop: Low Carbon Fuels

What opportunities exist for RAPID to enable decarbonization in current fuels production and to enable production or utilization in low carbon alternative fuels, and how should the focus be prioritized?
5:15 PM 5:30 PM

Lightning Round - Selected Abstracts

Mohammad Moniruzzaman, University of Houston: Forced Dynamic Operation of Propylene Oxidation to Acrolein for Enhanced Catalytic Performance

Joseph Powell, University of Houston: UH Energy Transition Institute: Hydrogen, Circular Economy, and Carbon Management

Emo Obadiah, University of Houston: Technoeconomic and Life Cycle Analysis of Hydrogen Production Pathways and Use "Low Carbon Hydrogen Production" 

Seyedborhan Mousavi, University of Houston

Shamin Nami, University of Houston
5:30 PM 7:30 PM Evening Reception and Poster Session
     

Day 2

Wednesday, June 5

  
8:30 AM 8:45 AM Registration and Coffee
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Day 1 Recap and Introduction of Day 2
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Panel 4: Carbon Circularity & Renewable Feedstocks

Moderator: Jill Martin, Global Sustainability Fellow, Dow

Rachel Meidl, Fellow in Energy and Sustainability, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Center for Energy Studies, Rice University; Strategist and Advisor, Circular Economy at MSCI Inc.

Barclay Satterfield, Senior Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Jorge Jimenez, Sr. Manager - Process Technology at SABIC 

Kyle Findley, Director Business Strategy for Green Circle at Lummus Technology
10:00 AM 11:00 AM Facilitated Workshop: Carbon Circularity & Renewable Feedstocks

What technology barriers are preventing different industries from using renewable feedstocks and recycled streams?
11:00 AM 12:00 PM Lunch
12:00 PM 12:30 PM

Overview of RAPID EWD Roadmap

Keith Joseph, Director of Education and Workforce Development, RAPID 
12:30 PM 1:30 PM Panel 5: Education and workforce Development (EWD) 

Moderator: Raymond Rooks, Principal Engineer at AVN Corporation

Moody Altamimi, Director, Office of Research Excellence, ORNL at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Danny Forest, Director, Data Analytics, Responsible Care, American Chemistry Council

Christina Jones, Partnerships and Outreach Strategist, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
1:30 PM 1:45 PM Break
1:45 PM 2:45 PM Facilitated Workshop: Education and Workforce Development (EWD)

Updating and prioritizing topics, audiences, and skills from RAPID Body of Knowledge on EWD.
2:45 PM 3:15 PM Event Wrap Up and Next Steps

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