2024 Program Schedule

Schedule, topics, and times are subject to change.

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Breakfast & Registration: 07:30-08:15

Presentations: 08:15-12:00, 13:00-17:00

Lunch: 12:00-13:00

Welcome Reception: 18:00-20:00

Presentation Topic	Speaker
Low Temperature Waste Heat Recovery: Challenges and Opportunities	Thomas G. Lestina, HTRI
Zero Emission Power from Oil and Gas Production Streams using Organic Rankine Cycles	Alan Rossiter, UH Energy, University of Houston
Process Systems Engineering Approaches for Sustainability Analysis of Low-Grade Waste Heat in Industry	Debalina Sengupta, Texas A&M University
Industrial Heat Pumps for Decarbonizing Steam-Heat Pumps in Industry	Donald E. McConnell, DuPont
Increasing Gas Turbine Exhaust Heat Recovery	Joseph E. Schroeder, JE Schroeder Consulting, LLC
Recent Advances in Absorption Chillersfor Low-Grade Waste Heat Recovery	Yunho Hwang, University of Maryland
Revolutionary Heat Pump Technology Using Low-Grade Waste Heat	Christopher Fraughton, MAN Energy Solutions
Efficient Recovery of Low-Grade Heat as an Enabler of Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition	Ignasi Palou-Rivera, RAPID Manufacturing Institute
Panel Session: Opportunities in low grade waste heat recovery

Breakfast & Registration: 07:30-08:15

Presentations: 08:15-12:00

Lunch: 12:00-13:00

Presentation Topic	Speaker
Improving Waste Heat Recovery for Heating Wet Crude	Lauren Moran, HTRI
Materials for low temperature flue gas	TBD
Incremental Counter-Current (ICC) Regenerative Heat Exchanger	Ben Zou, Cypress Systems LLC
Design Improvements on Welded Plate Exchangers Used in Feed to Effluent Applications Minimize Energy Consumption and Reduce Emissions	Jesus Perez, Alfa Laval
Panel Session: Improvements in heat transfer technology
Symposium Closing Remarks