The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pertamina University (Jakarta, Indonesia) to establish a partnership on activities of mutual importance to the two organizations. The signing...
A Bright Spot for Energy Production; Concentrating Solar Thermal Overview; Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage; Leveraging the Ammonia Industry for Solar Energy Storage
Alan Gabelman, PhD, P.E., is President of Gabelman Process Solutions, LLC (Website: www.gabelmanps.com; Email: alan.gabelman@gabelmanps.com; Phone: (513) 919-6797), offering consulting services in process engineering. His 40 years of experience involve numerous separation processes and other engineering unit operations, equipment selection, sizing and design, process simulation, P&ID development, and process economics. He holds BS, MChE, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell Univ...Read more
Dr Keith Lovegrove is the managing director of ITP Thermal Pty Ltd and co-founder of Ardent Underground Pty Ltd. He has 30 years of experience in Solar Energy, hydrogen and ammonia combined with 15 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Energy Systems Engineering. He was previously the leader of the Solar Thermal Group at the Australian National University where is led the design and build of the 500m2 world’s largest, solar dish. Keith is currently a member of the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology advisory board, the Australian...Read more
Adrienne Lavine, PhD, is a professor and past department chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Email: lavine@seas.ucla.edu). Her research addresses various aspects of heat transfer, including solar thermal energy storage, thermal energy harvesting, and thermal aspects of nanoscale and macroscale manufacturing processes. She earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. She received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science...Read more
Peter Kreider, Phd, is a research fellow in the solar thermal group at the Australian National Univ. and is currently managing a solar thermochemical energy storage project for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) (Email: peter.kreider@anu.edu.au). His research interests focus on reaction engineering for solar fuels and functional materials. He received his BS from the Univ. of Colorado Boulder and PhD from Oregon State Univ., both in chemical engineering. He is an AIChE senior member and is active in sessions related to solar energy...Read more
Jeff Cumpston, Phd, is a postdoctoral researcher at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen Univ. His research focuses include optimization of CSP power plant layouts and optimization of energy storage scheduling to maximize revenue in variable electricity markets. He has conducted atmospheric monitoring at Australia’s Davis Station in Antarctica. Cumpston received a BS in Physics, a Bachelor of Photonics, and a PhD in solar engineering from Australian National Univ. He was awarded the Australian Solar Energy Society’s Wal Read Memorial Prize and the...Read more
Chen Chen is a doctoral student in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Box 951597, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095). His emphasis is on heat and mass transfer. He received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia Univ. He has published two research papers on ammonia solar thermochemical energy storage systems....Read more
