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2024 Program Schedule

Schedule, topics, and times are subject to change.

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Time Presentation Topic Speaker
07:30 – 08:15 Breakfast and Registration  
08:15 – 08:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks  
08:30 – 09:00 Low Temperature Waste Heat Recovery: Challenges and Opportunities Thomas G. Lestina, HTRI
09:00 – 09:30 Zero Emission Power from Oil and Gas Production Streams using Organic Rankine Cycles Alan Rossiter, UH Energy, University of Houston
09:30 – 10:00 Advanced Compact Heat Exchanger (CHX) Technology for Low Grade Heat management Arun Muley, Boeing
10:00 – 10:30 Break  
10:30 – 11:00 Process Systems Engineering Approaches for Sustainability Analysis of Low-Grade Waste Heat in Industry Debalina Sengupta, Texas A&M University
11:00 – 11:30 Industrial Heat Pumps for Decarbonizing Steam-Heat Pumps in Industry Donald E. McConnell, DuPont
11:30 – 12:00 Increasing Gas Turbine Exhaust Heat Recovery Joseph E. Schroeder, JE Schroeder Consulting, LLC
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch  
13:00 – 13:30 Recent Advances in Absorption Chillers for Low-Grade Waste Heat Recovery Yunho Hwang, University of Maryland
13:30 – 14:00 Revolutionary Heat Pump Technology Using Low-Grade Waste Heat Christopher Fraughton, MAN Energy Solutions
14:00 – 14:30 Efficient Recovery of Low-Grade Heat as an Enabler of Industrial Decarbonization and the Energy Transition Ignasi Palou-Rivera, RAPID Manufacturing Institute
14:30 – 15:00 Break  
15:00 – 16:30 Panel Session: Opportunities in Low-Grade Waste Heat Recovery  
16:30 – 16:45 Day One Closing Remarks  
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception  

Friday, June 7, 2024

Time Presentation Topic Speaker
07:30 – 08:15 Breakfast and Registration  
08:15 – 08:30 Day Two Opening Remarks  
08:30 – 09:00 Improving Waste Heat Recovery for Heating Wet Crude Lauren Moran, HTRI
09:00 – 09:30 Materials for Low Temperature Flue Gas Bundles Thomas Orth, Technoform (Author)
Aaron Smith, HTRI (Presenter)
09:30 – 10:00 Incremental Counter-Current (ICC) Regenerative Heat Exchanger Ben Zou, Cypress Systems LLC
10:00 – 10:30 Design Improvements on Welded Plate Exchangers Used in Feed to Effluent Applications Minimize Energy Consumption and Reduce Emissions Jesus Perez, Alfa Laval
10:30 – 10:45 Break  
10:45 – 11:50 Panel Session: Improvements in Heat Transfer Technology  
11:50 – 12:00 Symposium Closing Remarks and Follow-up  
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch