Group members Staff members Fred Closmann, Research Associate BS ChE Texas A&M ’84 MS Env & PhD ChE UT Austin ’89, ’11 Pilot Plant Manager: manages all laboratory, pilot, and reporting activities related to CO2 capture work funded by the Department of Energy. Cameron Carter, Staff Chemist BS Chemistry University of Texas at Austin Current Graduate Students Miguel Abreu BS & MS ChE Instituto Superior Técnico ’15, ’17 Heat exchanger modeling for CO2 capture Benjamin Drewry BS ChE University of Arkansas ’18 Systems modeling and economic optimization of piperazine scrubbing for carbon capture Ariel Plantz BS ChE UC Berkeley ’20 Understanding Iron Catalyzed Piperazine Oxidation and Removing Iron from Amines Chih-I Chen BS ChE National Taiwan University ’18 MS ChE National Taiwan University ’20 Amine oxidation by NO2 at absorber conditions Jorge Martorell BS ChE University of Houston ’21 Process modeling for amine scrubbing James Obute BS ChE University of Kentucky ’20 Understanding the role of dissolved oxygen in amine oxidation during aqueous scrubbing of carbon dioxide
