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Na Deng

Na Deng is an associated professor of school of environmental science and technology at Tianjin Univ. She received a PhD in thermal energy from Tianjin Univ. As a visiting scholar, she worked at Virginia Tech and Utah State Univ. Her research interests include clean treatment (pyrolysis, gasification, combustion) of solid waste (MSW, medical waste, biomass etc.), energy conversion, and heat and mass transfer process.Read more

David Keating

Name: David Keating Office Address: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center 3554 Microbial Sciences 1550 Linden Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Telephone: (608) 890-2547 Education: 1988 B.S. Biology University of Utah 1990 M.S. Microbiology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1996 Ph.D. Microbiology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Postdoctoral Training: 2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University Academic Appointments: 1989-1995 Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996-1997 Postdoctoral Research...Read more

Soumya Yadala

Name: Soumya Yadala Education: Doctoral Student, The University of Tulsa Start date: August,2009 Research Area: Cost effective production of algae based biodiesel through optimization Conferences: 56th Annual Oklahoma Pentasectional conference, Bartlesville, OK Pan American Studies Institute, 2011, RJ, BrazilRead more

Nathan Stokes

Nathan Stokes is a Marketing Engineer with Emerson Process Management, Rosemount Measurement Division located in Chanhassen, Minnesota. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Dakota and he is currently pursuing his MBA from the University of Minnesota. Nathan has 5 years of experience with Emerson in the areas of Marketing Communications, Industry Specific Product Marketing, and DP Flow Product Marketing.Read more

Nauman Islam

Nauman Islam is the Oil & Gas Team Leader for GE Energy’s Control Solutions business. He holds a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from McMaster University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 13 years experience in turbomachinery control in upstream, midstream and downstream applications. He has held various roles in Asia Pacific, Middle East and USA. He has authored several technical papers in leading industry publications and has been a conference speaker in a number of Oil & Gas conferences. Mr. Islam also holds a patent and is active in API 612...Read more

Ned Leonard

NED LEONARD As Vice President of Program Services and working out of the Office of the President & CEO, Ned Leonard supports the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity's senior management in the areas of State Affairs, Federal Affairs and Policy, Communications, and association Operations. His primary focus is on clean coal technologies, including those involved in carbon dioxide capture, storage, transportation, and beneficial use. Ned currently assists the Sr. VP for State Affairs in management of three-state campaign organized to persuade the Obama EPA to extend the deadline...Read more

Nitin Talreja

Nitin Talreja is a 1999 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Mr. Talreja started his career as a Process Safety Consultant at Berwanger, Inc. (now Siemens) in the Relief Systems and Design Division. His experience includes pressure relief system design and verification, conceptual and detailed process design, and extensive process simulation. He has a solid understanding of relief device sizing and installation codes, including ASME and API. Mr. Talreja has served as a Project Manager for the Relief Systems Group, Account Manager in the...Read more

Wei Chen

Oct, 2009—Present. PhD student in University of Twente. Research project: Membrane Reactors for Combustion of Fossil Fuels with Integrated CO2 Capture Sep,2006—Jul, 2009. M.S. majored in Materials Science in University of Science and Technology of China Sep,2002—Jul, 2006. B.S. majored in Materials Physics in University of Science and Technology of ChinaRead more

Yuxiang Rao

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Associate · Jun 2010 to present · Richland, Washington * Membrane Air Dehumidifier with Wei Lu Starting in Nov 2011 High-Efficiency, on-Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates * High Surface Area Inorganic Membrane for Process Water Remove with Wei Lu Oct 2010 to present Project aims to demonstrate fabrication and performance advantages of mini-channel planar membrane modules made of porous metallic supports of surface area packing density about 3 to 10 times higher than the...Read more

Parag Shah

Parag is the Refinery Technical Lead for Dorf Ketal Chemicals with a decade of experience in the field. Over the years he has been helping refineries with process improvements and de-bottlenecking exercises successfully. Parag has an active interest in evaluating operating risks due to newer feedstocks in a given refinery with an impact assessment tool that stretches across the refinery. He has pioneered in developing mitigation plans for such problems and has a very rich experience in understanding the underlying chemistries and possible solutions for such mechanisms. This has resulted in...Read more

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