Assessing Biofuels for Sustainable Development Panel Session

Realff, Matthew J.; Sievers, Carsten; Studebaker, Curt; Whitlatch, Mike

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Assessing Biofuels for Sustainable Development Panel Session

dc.contributor.author	Realff, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.author	Sievers, Carsten
dc.contributor.author	Studebaker, Curt
dc.contributor.author	Whitlatch, Mike
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Strategic Energy Institute	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Serve-Learn-Sustain	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	LanzaTech	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	United Parcel Service	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-03T14:26:35Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-03T14:26:35Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-10
dc.description	Presented at the Energy Expo on February 10, 2017 in the Georgia Tech Student Center, 3rd Floor Ballroom.	en_US
dc.description	PRESENTATION TITLE: CLOSING THE CARBON CYCLE: A BIOFUELS PERSPECTIVE - Dr. Matthew J. Realff is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech and David Wang Senior Faculty Fellow. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1993, after completing his Bachelor’s degree at Imperial College London, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at MIT in 1992. He was an National Science Foundation (NSF) program director from 2005-2007 in the division of Civil Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation where he ran programs in environmentally benign design and service enterprise systems. He has a current appointment as an NSF external expert helping develop their programs in resilient infrastructure systems. He was the co-chair of the 2013 American Chemistry Society Green Chemistry Conference. In December 2013 he was appointed as the Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute with responsibility for advanced materials and separations applications for energy systems and in 2014 appointed as an Associate Director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute to help develop programs in chemicals and fuels.	en_US
dc.description	Carsten Sievers is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Carsten Sievers obtained his Diplom and Dr. rer nat. degrees in Technical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Under the guidance of Prof. Johannes A. Lercher, he worked on heterogeneous catalysts for various processes in petroleum refining including hydrogenation of aromatics in Diesel fuel, alkylation, alkane activation, and catalytic cracking. Additional research projects included novel catalytic system, such as supported ionic liquids. In 2007, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology to work with Profs. Christopher W. Jones and Pradeep K. Agrawal as a postdoctoral fellow. His primary focus was the development of catalytic processes for biomass depolymerization and synthesis of biofuels. He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His research group is developing catalytic processes for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. Specific foci are on the stability and reactivity of solid catalysts in aqueous phase, surface chemistry of oxygenates in water, production of specific chemicals from biomass, applied spectroscopy, synthesis of well-defined catalysts, methane conversion, mechanocatalysis, CO capture, pyrolysis, and gasification. He is Director of the Southeastern Catalysis Society, Director of the ACS Division of Catalysis Science & Technology and the AIChE Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, and Editor of Applied Catalysis A: General.	en_US
dc.description	PRESENTATION TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO LANZATECH - Curt Studebaker is a Global Operations Technical Advisor for LanzaTech, a Chicago-based startup company that develops fuels and chemicals from waste gases. He completed his B.S. in chemical engineering at Purdue University in 2011. (Boiler Up!) Since joining LanzaTech in 2014, he has traveled around the world starting up units that demonstrate the company’s gas-to-ethanol (GTE) and alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) technologies. Curt is now the technical lead engineer on a project to install a pair of pilot-scale fermenters at LanzaTech’s Freedom Pines Biorefinery in Soperton, GA. These fermenters will be LanzaTech’s largest self-operated unit and will address R&D and training needs both internally and externally. Prior to working at LanzaTech, Curt performed a similar role for Honeywell-UOP, leading pre-commissioning and commissioning activities at petrochemical refineries all over Asia.	en_US
dc.description	PRESENTATION TITLE: PATHWAY TO LOWER EMISSIONS - Mike Whitlatch is the Vice President of UPS’s Global Energy and Procurement Group. Mike has worked at UPS for over 29 years and held assignments in aircraft engineering, material logistics, finance, procurement and energy. Mike has extensive experience in the U.S. energy supply chain and is part of the UPS leadership team that develops alternative fuel technologies and strategy at UPS. Mike currently oversees the global procurement of UPS’s ground transportation equipment, support material and energy resources. UPS operates one of the largest alternative fuel and advanced technology fleets in the U.S. The UPS fleet includes more than 8,100 EV’s, hybrids, natural gas, propane, bio-methane and light-weight fuel-saving composite body vehicles. Since 2000, the UPS alternative and advanced technology fleet has travelled over 1 Billion miles which is equivalent to 2,000 round trips to the moon. Mike holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration. He recently chaired the Airlines for America (A4A) Energy Council and serves on the boards of several fueling entities that provide jet fuel storage and distribution infrastructure at most U.S. airports.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 55:48 minutes
dc.format.extent	55:48 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56669
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Energy Expo	en_US
dc.subject	Algae	en_US
dc.subject	Biofuels	en_US
dc.subject	Carbon dioxide	en_US
dc.subject	Energy	en_US
dc.title	Assessing Biofuels for Sustainable Development Panel Session	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Closing the Carbon Cycle: A Biofuels Perspective	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Introduction to LanzaTech	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Pathway to Lower Emissions	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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local.contributor.author	Realff, Matthew J.
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