Spring 2021 PSTC Meeting Agenda (pdf)
Day 1: Tuesday, April 6th
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM Annual Sponsors Meeting
- 8:00 AM – Freeman Group
- Overview of Membrane Research at UT – Benny Freeman
- Novel Membranes for Natural Gas Separations – Jaesung Park
- Influence of Processing Conditions on Asymmetric Membrane Structure – Alec Bridge
- Fouling Resistance in Water Purification Membranes – Yu-Heng Cheng
- Gas Separation Properties of Novel Membranes – Julian Richardson
- Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Brine – T. J. Dilenschneider
- Fundamentals of Ion Transport in Membranes for Water Purification – Rahul Sujanani
- Modeling Ion Transport in Membranes for Water Purification – Everett Zofchak
- 11:00 AM – Baldea Group
- Double Intensification of Ethylene Glycol Separation – Lingqing Yan
- Multi-scale Design of IL-based Carbon Capture Process – Kyeongjun Seo
- 12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break
- 1:00 PM – Zachary P. Smith, MIT
- Designing Membrane Materials for Gas Separations – Zachary P. Smith, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
- 1:30 PM – Seibert Group
- SRP Update – Frank Seibert
- Co-Current Downflow Gas Film Controlled Spray Mass Transfer – Frank Seibert
- Oil Recovery from Dilute Oil-Water Mixtures via Hydrophobic Hollow Fiber Membranes – Carolyn Cooper
- 3:00 PM – Rochelle Group
- Introduction to the War on Amine Oxidation – Gary Rochelle
- FEED for Piperazine with the Advanced Stripper™ on NGCC at Denver City, Texas – Fred Closmann
- Corrosion in PZAS – Ching-Ting Liu
Day 2: Wednesday, April 7th
8:00 – 11:30 AM Annual Sponsors Meeting
- 8:00 AM – Ritter Group
- Brief Overview of Adsorption Process and Adsorbent Materials Research at USC – James A. Ritter
- Process Scaling and Design for Large Scale CO2 Capture by PSA – Huan Jiang
- Design and Scale-up of TVSA Cycle for CO2 Removal from Spacecraft Cabins Using a Structured Adsorbent – Pravin B. C. A. Amalraj
- Adsorption Dynamics in Carbon Molecular Sieves and ETS-4 Adsorbents based on Kinetic Models – Sulaimon A. Adegunju
- Equilibrium Theory Analysis of Equalization Steps in Pressure Swing Adsorption – Behnam Fakhari-Kisomi
- Developing a 1-D Pressure Drop Correlation for Structured Adsorbent Columns with Triangular Channels – Ryan T. Sanders
- 10:00 AM – Eldridge Group
- CFD Modeling of the Lung – Bruce Eldridge
- Predicting the Liquid Flow Angle and Mass Transfer in Structured Packings with CFD – Luke Macfarlan
Past Agenda & Handouts
Meeting Handouts (password protected)