AIChE Chicago October 2023 Meeting
When: October 19, 2023
5:00 PM-8:00 PM
Where: Tap House Grill
56 W Wilson St
Palatine, IL 60067
Speaker: Gary Brierley,
Business Development, Manager, LanzaJet
Topic: Sustainably Fueling the Future
Speaker Biography:
Gary Brierley is the Business Development Manager at LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology and production company, based in Deerfield, Illinois. Gary is Canadian by birth and holds a BASc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He spent the first 16 years of his career working for Syncrude Canada Ltd in Northern Alberta, primarily in operations roles for hydrogen production as well as hydrotreating and mild hydrocracking of bitumen-derived streams. He emigrated to the USA in 1996 and spent the next 24 years working for UOP LLC in Des Plaines, Illinois, primarily in hydroprocessing technical sales. Gary specialized in synthetic crude production projects and shale oil upgrading projects. He was also the Global Sales Leader for UOP’s hydrocracking catalyst business and led the sales effort for UOP’s new slurry hydrocracking technology.
Presentation Abstract:
The aviation industry contributes roughly 2.5% of the world’s global CO2 emissions and is one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize. The use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is recognized to be the primary means by which CO2 emissions can be reduced to meet the industry’s target to become net zero by 2050. The current production of SAF is less than 0.1% of the global aviation fuel demand. In the US last year, only 16M gallons of SAF were produced, while nearly 100B gallons of jet fuel was consumed on a global basis. There are several approved production pathways for SAF, but the most common one today is HEFA technology, which uses animal fats and used cooking oil, which are limited in supply availability. LanzaJet’s ethanol-to-jet technology has the ability to use the large supply of ethanol available today, while incentivizing the production of second-generation ethanol from waste streams to produce jet fuel with a low, or even negative carbon intensity. LanzaJet has set an aspirational goal of having more than one billion gallons per year of SAF production by the year 2030.
Meeting Agenda:
5:00 to 6:00 PM - Networking and Social hour
6:00 to 7:00 PM - Dinner
7:00 to 7:15 PM - Section Announcements
7:15 to 8:30 PM - Presentation and Q&A
Registration
AICHE Chicago Section
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