2022 Symposium Program
Key Note Speakers
Sessions
In each session, distinguished speakers from academia and industry delivered presentations that highlight concepts central to each topic. Afterwards, a panel (chaired by the speakers) assembled to field questions and encourage wider conversation.

Desalination, wastewater treatment, zero liquid discharge, water fouling
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Cooling Water Treatment – Lessons Learned
Michael Lyon, DuPont
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Resource Recovery from Wastewater
John Poppe, Kitsap Public Utility District
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A Study of Iodine Vapor Infusion to Mitigate Fouling of Cooling Tower Water
Joel McElrath , Electric Power Research Institute

Carbon capture, sulfur and NOx reduction, indoor air quality
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Trends in Waste Heat Recovery Practices in the Process Industry
Alan Rossiter, PhD, P.E., UH Energy, University of Houston
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Gas Turbine Operation Improvement with Multi-Function Catalyst
Dan Johnson, P.E., CORMETECH Inc.
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Ari Glezer, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology and Arne J. Pearlstein, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Cold Water for Plants in the Desert: Heat Rejection for Water-starved Locations
T.J. Paskach, PhD, Frontline BioEnergy LLC

Geothermal, direct solar thermal, fuel cells, Li-ion battery energy storage
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Heat Transfer Technologies for Combined Heat and Power Applications
Patricia Irving, PhD, InnovaTek Inc.
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Design and Test of High-Temperature Recuperator (HTR) for Carbonate Fuel Cells
Lou Curcio, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
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Improving Thermal Management for Large Li-ion Energy Storage Systems
Amy Lenneman, AES Distributed Energy