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