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Technical Program

The Program includes two Concurrent Tracks covering different topics.

Plenary presentations and Track A Sessions will be held in the Grand Ballroom.
Track B Sessions will be held in the Briarpark room.

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Day 1 - Sept 19 

7:45 AM

8:45 AM

Registration (Open all day) and Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM

9:00 AM

Introduction to Conference 
Conference Chairs: Ida Chen - Dow & Mike Schultz - PTI Global Solutions

9:00 AM

9:45 AM

Day 1 Plenary Address I
Ramanan Krishnamoorti - University of Houston

9:45 AM

10:30 AM

Day 1 Plenary Address II
Jill Martin - Dow
Transforming Waste for a Circular, Safe, and Low Carbon Future

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Coffee Break 
   

track a

track b
    Energy Session I
Session Chair: Ida Chen - Dow		 Water Session I
Session Chair: Sydney Samples - The Water Research Foundation

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Keynote
Sustainable Biofuels for Aviation and Maritime Decarbonization
Eric Tan - NREL

Keynote
Tackling the PFAS challenge head on with Supercritical Water Oxidation - Never say forever
Sudhakar Viswanathan - 374Water

11:30 AM

11:50 AM

 Sustainability Assessment of Purpose Grown Sustainable Aviation Fuel Feedstocks in the Contiguous United States
Braden Limb - Colorado State University

Phosphate Modified Baker's Yeast: An Effective Approach for Simultaneous Lead Removal and Water Hardness Reduction in Wastewater
Aysu Zamanova & Gunel Rahimli - Baku Higher Oil School

11:50 AM

12:10 PM

ExxonMobil Lower-Emission Fuel Technology
Alex Freer - ExxonMobil

Industrial Scale Thin-Film Composite Membrane Modules for Salinity-Gradient Energy Harvesting through Pressure Retarded Osmosis
Marcus Low - Nanyang Technological University - NTUitive Pte Ltd

12:10 PM

1:30 PM

Lunch 
    Energy Session II
Session Chair: Eric Tan - NREL		 Water Session II
Session Chair: Sudhakar Viswanathan - 374Water

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

Keynote
A CIRCULAR ECONOMY VISION FOR NEXT-GEN NUCLEAR POWER
Vik Singh - Curio

Keynote
Making Water Sexy: A Collaborative Approach to Innovation and Technology
Kristan VandenHeuvel - The Water Tower

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Improved Approach for Benefit Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Methods That Use Rechargeable Batteries
Leisa Porter & Robert Deshotels - Fluor Corporation 

 Reducing Water Use By Increasing Cooling Tower Cycles of Concentration
Timothy Keister - ProChemTech International

2:20 PM

2:40 PM

 Electro-Bio Conversion for Renewable Materials, Fuels and Chemicals
Joshua Yuan - Washington University in St. Louis		 Water in the Emerging Energy Environment and Its Sustainable Use
Himangshu Dey - Fluor Corporation 

2:40 PM

3:10 PM

Break 
    Energy Session III
Session Chair: Vik Singh - Curio		  

3:10 PM

3:40 PM

Keynote
Creating Lower-Carbon Technology Solutions for Society’s Needs
Nicholas Jones - ExxonMobil

  

3:40 PM

4:00 PM

Navigating the Selectivity Toward a Single C2 Product in CO2 Electroreduction
Shraiy Gupta - Vale Technologies

  

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Welcome Reception

                   

                   

 

 

  Day 2 - Sept 20 

8:00 AM

8:50 AM

Continental Breakfast and Registration (Open all day) 

8:50 AM

8:55 AM

Morning Remarks 
8:55 AM 9:00 AM

Sustainable Energy Corps Presentation
Wendy Young- AIChE Institute for Learning & Innovation

9:00 AM

9:45 AM

Day 2 Plenary Address I
Rachel Meidl - Rice University, Baker Institute of Public Policy
A Systems Perspective for Navigating the Foundations of Sustainability and a Circular Economy 

9:45 AM

10:30 AM

Day 2 Plenary Address II
Joe Powell - University of Houston
The Dual Challenge of Net Zero and Circular Materials

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Coffee Break 
   

track a

track b
    Energy & Water Session 
Session Chair: Nicholas Jones - ExxonMobil		  

11:00 AM

11:20 AM

Separating the Loop in Chemical Looping Reformation: How a Two-Stage Reformer and Decoupling Alleviates Process Challenges
Robert Krumm - POWER Engineers

  

11:20 AM

11:40 AM

Investigation of Energy Harvest from the Thermal Decomposition of Munitions Wastewater
Roshan Adhikari - Stevens Institute of Technology 

  

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Advancing Research for Climate Risk Assessments, Adaptation, and Mitigation in the Water Sector
Sydney Samples - The Water Research Foundation

  

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Lunch 
    Energy Session V
Session Chair: Andy Lemonds - Dow		 Materials Session I
Session Chair: Shrikant Dhodapkar - Dow

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

 An Integrated Process for the Production of a Sustainable Solid Biofuel As a Drop-in Replacement for Coal in Power Boilers
Jagannadh Satyavolu - University of Louisville

Keynote
Scale-Up of PureCycle Solvent Dissolution Recycling Process
Mike Weber - PureCycle

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

 AI Enables Industrial Autonomous Operations
Elbert van der Bijl - Yokogawa Corporation of America

Keynote
Circularity & Climate Neutrality: Decarbonizing Products, Processes and Supply Chains
Richard Skorpenske - Covestro

2:20 PM

2:40 PM

Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Using Artificial Neural Network
Mohammad Biswas - University of Texas At Tyler

Biomass-Derived Blue Pigment (Indigoidine) Could be Less Costly and Have Lower Carbon Footprint Than Synthetic Indigo
Nawa Baral - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

 

Mechanism-Guided Design of Lignin Material for Sustainability
Joshua Yuan - Washington University in St. Louis

3:00 PM

4:30 PM

Poster Presentation Session

 

 

 

 

  Day 3 - Sept 21 

8:00 AM

8:55 AM

Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:55 AM

9:00 AM

Morning Remarks 

9:00 AM

9:45 AM

Day 3 Plenary Address
Johanna Haggstrom - LanzaTech
A New Carbon Economy: Innovating to a Post Pollution Future

9:45 AM

10:15 AM

Coffee Break 
   

track a

track b
    Materials Session II
Session Chair - Narayan Ramesh - Dow		 Food Session I
Session Chair: Mike Schultz - PTI Global Solutions

10:15 AM

10:45 AM

 Keynote
From setting Net-Zero targets to implementation – a global perspective 
Martina Prox - iPoint-systems gmbh

Keynote
Embracing the Challenges of Sustainability to Help Feed a Growing World
Sailesh Kumar - ADM

10:45 AM

11:15 AM

Keynote
Challenges in Achieving Carbon Neutrality & Plastics Circularity by 2050 – An Engineering Perspective
Shrikant Dhodapkar - Dow

Keynote 
Rethinking natural fermentation to simultaneously decarbonize food ingredients, consumer chemicals and transportation fuels
Bryan Tracy - Superbrewed Food

11:15 AM

11:35 AM

 Mindful Manufacturing - Link between Economics and Sustainability
Anam Ahmed - Kuraray America, Inc		 Nutrient Optimization for Climate Smart Intelligent Food Supply Chain Dynamics Modeling
Richard Donovan - UC Irvine

11:35 AM

11:55 AM

Composite Linear Program Controls Ethane Load in a Typical Ethylene Plant
Mike McMillan - Aspen Technology Services Corporation

 A Low-Energy Process for the Production of Pure Dry Xylose from Sustainable Agricultural Biomass
Jagannadh Satyavolu - University of Louisville

11:55 AM

1:15 PM

Lunch 
    Energy Session VI Food Session II
Session Chair: Sailesh Kumar - ADM

1:15 PM

1:45 PM

Keynote
Mobilizing the Chemical Industry to Decarbonize Energy: A Material Science Company’s Role and Examples
Andy Lemonds - Dow

Keynote
Application of ultrasonic separation in bioethanol purification process
Junli Liu - Purdue University

1:45 PM

2:15 PM

 Challenges in Reallizing Large Scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Solution
Zuriyaty Bt M Yusoff - PETRONAS

Keynote
Valorizing CO2 using renewable energy to enable the future of food
Ciaran Dunn - Circe Bioscience

2:15 PM

2:35 PM

 Intellectual Property Considerations for Sustainable Innovations
Paul Townsend & Sasha Hoyt - Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Employment of Green Methodologies for Valorized Processing of Dairy Waste Products into Bioactive Peptides: Recent Advances
Bababode Kehinde - University of Kentucky

2:35 PM

2:45 PM

Closing Remarks  - Attendee Feedback

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