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Special Sessions Topic Area 4: Economics of CO2 Capture and Utilization
Topic Area 5: Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of CO2 Utilization
WORKSHOP Topic Area 6: Heat and Mass Transfer Challenges in CO2
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization (CCU): Capture and Utilization
Technology Opportunities and Challenges Topic Area 7: Equipment Design: Challenges and
Sunday, July 14 Opportunities
1:00PM–5:00PM Topic Area 8: Interfacing with the CO2 Sources
Cost: $30 Q&A and Open Discussion
Grand Ballroom C, Second Floor
Speakers
A Comprehensive Overview of Carbon Management that will Dr. C.B. Panchal, E3Tec Service, LLC: After working for 25+
provide State-of-the-Art Knowledge and Information about years at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Panchal founded
Ongoing Development of Carbon Dioxide Capture and E3Tec to better serve the industry with the focus on energy
Utilization Technology efficiency and process intensification. E3Tec has been pursuing
utilization of captured CO2 with Grants from DOE-SBIR and
Synopsis ERA, Alberta Canada Round 1. E3Tec has developed Heat
The impact of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on climate Integrated Reactive Distillation (HIRD) equipped with side
change is now taken seriously, which is expected to stimulate reactors for conversion of CO2 to alkyl carbonates. Dr. Panchal
global action to reduce CO2 emissions as well as finding holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of
economic ways to convert CO2 to value-added products in Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK,
addition to utilizing CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and and a BS in chemical engineering from the University of
geologic sequestration. When the global demand for electricity Bombay, India. He is a Fellow member of AIChE and was
increased from 8.3 million GWh in 1980 to 22.7 million GWh in and an active member of the AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy
2012, the resulting annual CO2 emissions increased from 5.5 to Division, now Transport and Energy Processes Division.
13.3 trillion tonnes. As such, the magnitude of CO2 emissions
is so large, that all possible technologies must be considered Richard D. Doctor, E3Tec Service, LLC: Chemical Engineer
to make a realistic impact in the foreseeable future, namely: (P.E.) Northwestern University; investigates process design
a) energy-efficiency in power generation and manufacturing; and economics for the full energy-chain analysis of fossil,
b) alternate fuels; c) renewable energy; d) CO2 capture and nuclear, and renewable power cycles using ASPEN® including
sequestration (CCS); and e) CO2 capture and utilization (CCU). systems retrofitted for carbon capture and sequestration.
The challenges associated with CO2 capture, transport, and Chapter chair for the IPCC Special Report on CO2 Capture and
storage have been well documented. Therefore, the conversion Sequestration (2006). Coming from a background with ARCO
of captured CO2 to value-added products would eliminate CO2 Oil, during his 32-year career at Argonne National Laboratory
transportation and geologic sequestration costs, and he led the DOE energy and environmental monitoring of the
encourage more facilities to convert CO2 into a revenue Great Plains Coal-gasification plant (a $2.2 Billion facility in
generating products. There is a Window of Opportunity for Beulah, ND) including heavy interaction with regulatory
innovative process and equipment designs for CO2 capture agencies.
and conversion to high-value products for offsetting the costs
of CO2 capture and conversion to products competitively. AIChE Symposium in Honor of Professor Peter C.
Wayner, Jr.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a comprehensive
overview of ongoing projects and to evaluate techno-economic Monday, July 15
opportunities and challenges for developing innovative 8:30AM–10:10AM, 2:00–5:40PM
technologies for abatement of CO2 emissions. Cedar Ballroom B, Second Floor
The workshop is intended for process and design engineers, Prof. Peter C. Wayner, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
managers, environmental engineers, and decision makers in Troy, NY
power and manufacturing industries. If you are seeking the
awareness of the current technology status of CO2 capture and “Advances in Phase-Change Phenomena and Heat/Mass
utilization, to explore funding sources for new technologies, Transfer”
and collaboration with ongoing projects, then this workshop
will provide the basic knowledge to pursue opportunities. Peter C. Wayner, Jr. was instrumental in
establishing the importance of intermolecular
Workshop Outline force interactions on change-of-phase heat
Topic Area 1: CO2 Emissions from Power Generation and and mass transfer. His incorporation of
disjoining pressure concepts into the overall
Manufacturing interfacial resistance to phase change and
Topic Area 2: Ongoing CO2 Capture Technology his development of optical techniques to characterize those
interfacial forces revolutionized how we view phase change
Developments processes today. This symposium is organized around a
8 Topic Area 3: Ongoing CO2 Utilization Technology series of invited talks that will highlight many of the important
Developments
