Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 9:30-10:30AM
Location: Health Science Technology Building (HST), Forum Room 101
This event features Christos Maravelias, as the Distinguished Schiesser lecture, who will talk about "Systems Engineering for Renewable Energy: Novel Approaches for New Problems", as part of the Lehigh University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering's Fall 2024 Colloquium Seminar Series.
Abstract
We discuss how process systems engineering (PSE) studies can facilitate the development of novel strategies for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. Importantly, we show how PSE can be used to identify technological and economic drivers, and, ultimately, guide future research efforts. After an overview of the methods used for these studies, we discuss the synthesis and analysis of two broad classes of strategies: (1) biomass-to-fuels/chemicals systems and (2) systems that employ solar energy for power and fuels generation. Finally, we discuss how the synthesis of integrated renewable energy systems leads, naturally, to new types of problems for which traditional approaches are insufficient; and outline progress towards the development of novel methods to address these challenges.
About the Speaker
Christos Maravelias is the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research interests lie in the general area of process and energy systems engineering and optimization. Specifically, he is studying production planning and scheduling, supply chain optimization, and energy systems synthesis and analysis with emphasis on renewable energy technologies. He has authored a research monograph on Chemical Production Scheduling and co-authored more than 200 journal articles. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the David Smith and Outstanding Young Researcher awards from the CAST Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Sustainable Engineering Forum research Award from AIChE, as well as the Production and Operations Management Society Applied Research Challenge Award.
History of Dr. William E. Schiesser
Dr. William E. Schiesser (1934-2024) was the Emeritus McCann Professor of Computational Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. His research was directed toward numerical methods and associated software for ordinary, differential-algebraic and partial differential equations (ODE/DAE/PDEs). He was the author, coauthor or coeditor of 36 books, and his ODE/DAE/PDE computer routines have been accessed by some 5,000 colleges and universities, corporations and government agencies.
The lecture series is supported by a fund established by the late Dolores T. Schiesser for an annual lecture in interdisciplinary scientific computation.
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