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March 2021

The Shift to Dynamic and Simulated Risk

According to the 2020 industry survey on the State of Process Safety and Operational Risk Management, only 37% of organizations are proactively managing their process safety risk exposure.

How much room does that leave for a major accident hazard event to creep in? Who is most at risk? Find out in this year's annual report. 

Lauren W. Boyd

Lauren W. Boyd is the Program Manager of the Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) program at the U.S. Department of Energy, Geothermal Technologies Office.  In this role, Lauren is responsible for all activities related to EGS, including strategic planning, budget formulation, and project execution of a broad RD&D portfolio.  This portfolio includes EGS demonstration projects, research and development projects, and new technology initiatives, such as the DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), which focuses on EGS validation, optimization and...Read more

AICHE STS April 2021 Dinner meeting

Thursday, April 8, 2021,
6:00pm to 7:30pm
CDT
Disconnects in Texas Energy Markets: Ed Hirs and Gavin Dillingham Ed Hirs Ed Hirs is an Energy Fellow and lecturer of economics at the University of Houston. He is a co-founder of Zero Carbon Cycle LLC, a development stage company building a renewable diesel plant. He has previously worked in...Read more

Omer C Onar

Omer C. Onar received his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Electrical Engineering, in July 2010, Chicago, IL. At IIT, he was a doctoral research assistant and a PhD student at the Energy Harvesting and Renewable Energies Laboratory at the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center. He is the recipient of the IEEE-Vehicular Technology Society’s 2008 “Transportation Electronics Fellowship” (world-wide single award) and the IEEE-Power Electronics Society’s 2009 “Joseph J. Suozzi INTELEC® Fellowship in Power Electronics” (world-wide single award). In July 2010, he...Read more

Jose Reyes

Dr. Reyes is the co-founder of NuScale Power and co-designer of the NuScale passively-cooled small nuclear reactor. He is an internationally recognized expert on passive safety system design, testing and operations for nuclear power plants. He has served as a United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) technical expert on passive safety systems. He is a co-inventor on over 110 patents granted or pending in 20 countries. He has received several national awards including the 2013 Nuclear Energy Advocate Award, the 2014 American Nuclear Society Thermal Hydraulic Division...Read more

Laihmen Quan

Ms. Laihmen Quan is an international graduate student pursuing her Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University. At the age of sixteen, she moved from Honduras and started her educational journey in Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. After graduating with honors, she transferred to Mississippi State University (MSU) and completed her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Ms. Quan is currently a graduate research assistant at MSU under the supervision of Dr. Maryam Mirabolghasemi. Her research focuses on a preventive approach for in-situ permeability...Read more

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