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Dr. Jay Agarwal
Dr. Jay Agarwal has been selected by the Department of Energy to serve on a panel of experts to help DOE evaluate Clean Coal technology projects.
Dr. Agarwal is Vice President / co-founder of CRA International and Managing Director, New England Equity Group, LLC.
Jay has more than 40 years of experience as a senior technical executive with CRA. He has saved Fortune 500 companies millions of dollars by identifying potential problems and determining ways to avoid them when commercializing new technologies.
He has also held positions as Director of Development at Kennecott Copper / Peabody Coal, Vice President at Amax Corporation, and Division Chief of Process Analysis at US Steel.
Dr. Agarwal is a fellow of the AIChE and TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.) He has authored over 100 papers and has 22 issued U.S. patents.
(click here for complete bio... www.newenglandequity.com/principals.php)
Rob Reintjes
Rob Reintjes, Managing Director, New England Equity Group, LLC will serve as meeting facilitator. Mr. Reintjes is well known to AIChE members for his leadership ability. Over the past several years, Rob has played a key role in revitalizing the AIChE Boston Section.
Rob and his partner, Dr. Agarwal, have more than 80 years of combined experience in the management and marketing of technological innovation. Their company, New England Equity Group, is an equity investment firm that focuses on companies that utilize chemical engineering technology, including Energy related companies. (For more information about New England Equity go to: http://www.newenglandequity.com Click here for Rob’s complete bio... http://www.newenglandequity.com/principals.php) (Scroll down)
All Participants
Since virtually all of our Chemical Engineering members are well qualified to address Energy technology questions – at this meeting, we will waive the usual format of an after dinner speaker and instead, draw on the powerful resources of our members!
Industry Experts
To stimulate discussion, a number of industry experts will be invited to attend the meeting – not as speakers, but as participants in the group discussion. Their names will be added to the AIChE Boston website as they register. Some of these experts will facilitate the table discussions on various Energy topics.
Kyle Zelley
President, Wachusett Biofuels http://wachusettbiomass.com
Lise Laurin
Founder of EarthShift, http://www.earthshift.com/about04.htm (scroll down for bio)
Jay Fiske
Partner, Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, which invests in renewable energy companies based in or doing significant business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. http://www.massgreenenergy.com/it_fiske.htm
Jefferson W. Tester
MIT Energy Initiative Education task force Co-chair, , H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering,
environmental remediation and control technology, chemical processes in supercritical fluids, renewable and geothermal energy systems, gas hydrates in natural environments http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/tester.html , http://web.mit.edu/tester
Scott Fraser
Senior VP of Engineering, Ze-gen, a leading developer and integrator of waste gasification technology. Mr. Fraser has been in the power generation and energy fields for 30 years. His background includes biomass gasification and combustion related technologies including fluidized bed combustion. He co-authored the textbook “The Design and Operation of CFB Boilers� . Other areas of expertise include energy infrastructure/economics within India, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union and other emerging markets all of which represent future market areas for Ze-Gen. http://www.ze-gen.com/
Wm. Curtis Conner
Prof. Chemical Engineering, Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Conner has been conducting research in catalysis related to energy for some 35 years. He is author of over a hundred papers and has lectured in over a dozen countries. His current research focuses on the conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels by novel routes. http://www.ecs.umass.edu/index.pl?id=4550
Marsha Gorden
Principal , The Resource Technologies Group, a company that delivers the latest sustainable tools and strategies to optimize their clients’ use of material, energy and water resources. Marsha has more than 35 years of conservation work both internationally with development banks and private companies, and locally with businesses and organizations in Massachusetts. She is presently organizing a state-wide energy efficiency program based on a new CHP (combined heat and power) and GIS (geographic information systems) approach at Suffolk University. http://www.sustainableresources.com/
Lisa Frantzis
Managing Director, Renewable and Distributed Energy, Navigant Consulting, Inc. Ms. Frantzis is on the Board of Directors for the American Council on Renewable Energy, was recently a Vice President of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England, and is a member of the American Wind Energy Association. http://www.navigantconsulting.com/industries/energy/
Kannan Vembu, PhD
Dr. Kannan Vembu manages AquaEnviroBio Solutions LLC, a company focused on advising clients on technology commercialization and investment opportunity analysis by evaluating and conducting technologies due diligence, market opportunities, and implementation assistance in water, wastewater, bioprocesses-based renewable energy, enviornmental technologies, solid-lquid and membrane-based separation systems. He has experience in 45 countries with assignments in Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, America and the Middle East.
Dr. Vembu received his Ph.D. in BioChemical Engineering from IIT, Delhi and conducted Post-Doctoral research at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His BS and MS are in Chemical Engineering. His has worked for Dorr-Oliver, Inc., Arthur D Little Inc., and ENVIRON prior to starting his own consulting practice.
For additional information, contact: kannan@Aquaenvirobio.com
Richard Parnas
Associate Professor and Director, Chemical Engineering , Univ. of Connecticut. Winner, Environmental Leadership Award given by the UConn Environmental Policy Advisory Council. Under Dr. Parnas' leadership, the Biofuels Consortium has begun regular biodiesel production at a campus pilot facility. http://biodiesel.engr.uconn.edu
Dammon M. Frecker
Vice President, Energy & Industrial Services, ESS Group, Inc., an environmental engineering and consulting firm that has led the comprehensive permitting of over 10,000 MW of energy generating facilities. These projects have included facilities using harvested wood and waste derived biomass materials, and a variety of technologies including fluidized bed combustion and gasification. http://www.essgroup.com
Stephen W. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D
Dr. Fitzpatrick is inventor and developer of the Biofine Process for conversion of cellulosic biomass into Levulinic Acid. Through his involvement with Biofine, he has become a leader in the development and implementation of economically sustainable industrial biofuels processes.
He is also President and Founder of DPS Biometics, located in Framingham, MA. Dr. Fitzpatrick is responsible for management of architectural design and process engineering. Steve provides direction of CGMP projects for process scale-up and design, quality control, process development, economic analysis, R&D consulting, feasibility and cost studies for biopharmaceutical clients. His technical expertise includes experience with mammalian and bacterial fermentation and downstream processing, gene therapy products, and medical devices.
He has a wide range of experience in the biological, pharmaceutical, chemical and petrochemical process industries in a variety of functions involving R&D, process technology development and plant design and operation.
Steve holds his B.Sc. in chemical engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D., in biochemical engineering from the University of Manchester, England
Hemant P. Pendse
Professor and Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of Maine, Managing Director, Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative (FBRI) http://www.umche.maine.edu/chb/
http://www.forestbioproducts.umaine.edu/
J. Andrew Irwin, PE
President and Founder of IRWIN Engineers, Inc. a chemical and environmental engineering consulting frim working with industry on environmental compliance and sustainable business practices for manufacturing and
risk management with handling of hazardous materials.http://www.irwinengineers.com/
G. Peter van Walsum, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative, Depart. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Univ. Maine Peter's expertise includes renewable energy, fuels and chemicals, bioprocessing and process engineering. (For extended bio click here) and for (article about Peter click here)
Marian A. Mailloux
Chair, AIChE-Boston Energy & Environment K-12 program. Marian studied Human Development and Education at Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, with a focus on Early Childhood Education and Gerontology. She has extensive experience in the field of education. She was owner and Director of a child care program serving 100 children, infant through grade 6. More recently, she worked as a facilitator involved with corporate re-engineering. Currently, Marian is developing a company which will help corporations achieve better environmental responsibility and sustainability.
Paul Nace
Managing Director of Maine BioProducts, LLC, a company pursuing the development of a forest biomass biorefinery in Maine. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of Econox Technologies, LLC, a Georgia based company specializing in combustion efficiency technology. Prior to his involvement in the energy sector over the last 5 plus years, Paul was a commercial real estate developer specializing in medical and biotech related development throughout New England. http://www.mainebioproducts.com
Ian H. Hutchinson
Professor and Department Head, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering. His primary research interest is the
magnetic confinement of plasmas: seeking to enable fusion reactions to be used for practical energy production. He and his MIT team designed, built and operate the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, an experiment whose magnetically confined plasmas, with temperatures reaching beyond 50 million degrees Celsius, are prototypical of a future fusion reactor. http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/hutch/
http://web.mit.edu/nse/
Charles Forsberg
Executive Director MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study,Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Previously with Oak Ridge National Labs) He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and recipient of the 2005 Robert E. Wilson Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for outstanding chemical engineering contributions to nuclear energy, including his work in hydrogen production and nuclear-renewable energy futures. He has degrees in both nuclear and chemical engineering . News release http://web.mit.edu/nse/pdfs/07_ansannualmtg/ANS_07%20(Forsberg).pdf
Andrew C. Kadak
Professor of the Practice, MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering.His teaching interests are Reactor Physics, Reactor Engineering, Safety Analysis, Economics, Waste Disposal, and Non-Proliferation. Currently, research is being conducted on a modular high temperature gas cooled pebble bed reactor. This research includes core neutronics design, thermal hydraulics, fuel performance, economics, non-proliferation, and waste disposal.
http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/kadak.html
http://web.mit.edu/pebble-bed/
Dr. Charles W. Krueger
VP, Product Development for Hy9 Corporation, a leading manufacturer of metal membrane hydrogen purifiers and Hydrogen Reformers/Generators. He has been active in the hydrogen energy field since 1994. At Hy9, he has worked on addressing the technical and economic challenges in commercializing hydrogen membrane technology in hydrogen production and fuel cell power systems. Dr. Krueger has a BS in ChE from U Penn, and M.S., (CEP) and Ph.D. (ChE) from M.I.T.
http://hy9.com
Susan Leschine
Professor of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Leschine is a Founder and Chief Scientist at SunEthanol, a biofuels technology company headquartered in Amherst. She also serves as Co-director of The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuels Research (TIMBR) at UMass Amherst, established by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to develop cost-effective technologies for producing biofuels and other value-added materials from plant biomass. Dr. Leschine's research has formed the basis for SunEthanol's Consolidated Bio-Processing innovation. http://sunethanol.com/site/
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