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Ben Haag

Currently, Dr. Ben Haag´s role is Technology Principal at OGCI Climate Investments. His key responsibilities are Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Methane Mitigation. Previously, Mr. Haag had various roles in technical and corporate functions with Dow Chemical, and most recently facilitated the merger and split of Dow Chemical and DuPont in the EMEAI region. Mr. Haag has a PhD in organic chemistry and holds various patents for chemical processes and automotive applications.Read more

Troy Lionberger

Troy Lionberger is the Associate Director of Technology Development at Berkeley Lights, an Emeryville startup that has created the Beacon platform, a high-throughput, fully automated, microfluidic system capable of performing quantitative assays from cultured cell populations. Dr. Lionberger invented applications on the Beacon platform that overcome a central problem faced by most cell biologists: in order to make high-confidence measurements of cellular behavior, it is often the case that most of the time in a given experiment is spent waiting for cells to grow to an appropriate density...Read more

Biogas Produced with Mesofila Anaerobic Digestion Processes in Urban Wastewater Treatment Plants

Friday, May 22, 2020,
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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The inclusion of anaerobic digestion in wastewater treatment provides significant potential for renewable energy production and savings in fossil fuel; In addition, it involves seeking viable alternatives that improve the waste management system. In this webinar, the speaker will talk about the key...Read more

Let's Talk Thermal Energy! Webinar

Friday, May 29, 2020,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
PDT
Join AIChE NorCal for our first virtual meeting with a presentation by David Coletta of Thermal Energy International! Sign up though our google form Here and we'll send you an email invite to join the Zoom webinar meeting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us here . Schedule: Friday...Read more

Melodie Yasher

Melodie Yashar is a design architect, technologist, and researcher. She is co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a group developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration, and a Senior Research Associate within the Human Systems Integration Division at NASA Ames. SEArch+ was awarded the top prize in Design within NASA’s Centennial Challenge for 3D-Printed Habitat on Mars in Phase 1 for “Mars Ice House” and Phase 3 for “Mars X-House.” SEArch+ has worked with UTAS/Collins Aerospace, NASA Langley, NASA Marshall, among others.Read more

CCPS - Aon Africa Virtual Meeting

June 11, 2020

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and Aon plc are pleased to announce the CCPS - Aon Africa Virtual Meeting, to be held on June 11, 2020. The meeting will take place from 9 am - 11 am EDT.

Carolyn Lee-Parsons

Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A).  Her team of graduate and undergraduate students investigates how plants coordinate and control the production of defense-related specialized metabolites.  Specifically, her team studies the transcriptional regulation of alkaloid biosynthesis in the Madgascar periwinkle or Catharanthus roseus plant and develops tools and strategies for re-programming their regulation (...Read more

H2 Incident - H2 Tube Truck Deflagration and Fire

Menu Lessons Learned References Download PDF These Materials are the intellectual property of the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) for use by its members and should not be disseminated to nonmembers without written permission by CHS. Incident Date: June 2019 Information Revision Date: May 5, 2020 A...

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