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January 2019

Sunita Satyapal

Sunita Satyapal is the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office, at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. She is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of hydrogen and fuel cell activities, including oversight and coordination of more than $100 million per year of research and development programs, as well as staff.Read more

2019 Spring & GCPS Tuesday Luncheon

We welcome you to join us listen to Delia Contreras at the 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting and 14th GCPS Tuesday Luncheon.

2019 Spring & GCPS Monday Luncheon

We welcome you to join us listen to Bruce Chinn at the 2019 AIChE Spring Meeting and 15th GCPS Monday Luncheon.

Morgan Reed

Morgan Reed, D.Eng., is a senior process safety and risk consultant for Physical Safety, LLC (Email: mreed51@yahoo.com). He has nine years of offshore and onshore experience in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. He applies thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat-transfer principles to study combustion processes (and consequences/responses), including jet/pool fires, explosions, structural response, and a variety of heat-transfer processes for technical process safety studies. Reed’s primary...Read more

Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson, PhD, is a senior process safety and risk consultant for Physical Safety, LLC (Email: texas2eric@yahoo.com). He has more than 20 years of experience focused on strategic planning, compliance consulting, and advanced process safety and risk analyses regarding infrastructure projects worldwide for industrial clients, particularly those involved in oil and gas, hydrocarbon transport, and the chemical industry. He provides guidance on the performance and direction of numerous air dispersion studies to support permitting, compliance, and...Read more

Ryan J. Hart, P.E.

Ryan J. Hart, PhD, P.E., is a managing engineer in the Thermal Sciences practice at Exponent, Inc. (Email: rhart@exponent.com), where he assists in the investigation and analyses of fires, explosions, and chemical process safety incidents. His investigations have focused on mid-scale to large-scale chemical production facilities, industrial material handling and processing facilities, power plants, refineries, and biofuel production facilities. The investigations have focused on fire and explosion cause analysis, origin determination, and evaluation...Read more

Smita Shankar

Smita Shankar is the SVP of Biomanufacturing at Impossible Foods. She leads the team responsible for manufacturing and scaling Impossible Burger’s “magic” ingredient – soy leghemoglobin, or “heme” – which provides the unmistakable flavor and aroma of meat. Previously, Smita was the VP of R&D at Impossible.

Smita joined Impossible Foods in 2013 as one of the company’s first R&D hires. Following Impossible’s discovery of heme as a key ingredient in 2014, she built the company’s microbial strain development program from scratch, leading to industrial-scale production of...Read more

Process Intensification: Using LESS to Make MORE

Tuesday, January 15, 2019,
11:30am to 1:00pm
EST
Gregory Theunick will be the January speaker for the 2018/2019 Mid-Michigan seminar series on the topic: Process Intensification: Using LESS to Make MORE When: Tuesday, January 15, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Where: The Dow Chemical Company, 1790 Building, Room 272 Address: Washington Street, south of...Read more

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