Surinder Singh | AIChE

Surinder Singh

Director of Engineering
NICE America Research

Dr. Singh is currently the Director of Engineering at NICE America Research which is a subsidiary of NICE (National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Energy) and R&D division of China Energy Group (CE) formerly Shenhua Group. China Energy is the largest in coal mining, power generation, coal to chemicals and renewable power generation in the world. CE has over 190 GW of fossil fuel power generation and 30 GW wind power generation assets. Dr. Singh, in his current role, is responsible for developing an R&D portfolio to enable CE to develop a pathway for affordable reduction in CO2 footprint. He is also developing program pathways for near zero CO2 emissions for fossil fuel power generation using fuel cells and advanced power cycles. Dr Singh has also worked on coal and biomass gasification; coal to liquids and gas to liquids (CTL, GTL), natural gas conversion and purification, carbon capture using solvents and membranes and other gas separation membranes at GE Global Research for 9 years. Dr. Singh has over 20 patents granted and pending with numerous peer reviewed articles and reports on these topics.