Organizing Committee
Biography
Annarita Salladini is a Project Manager working for Processi Innovativi Srl, a company owned by KT–Kinetics Technology SpA, and part of Maire Tecnimont Group. She graduated in Chemical Engineering cum laude at the University of L’Aquila in 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biotechnology Innovative Processes in 2009 at the University of L’Aquila. She joined Processi Innovativi on 2009 and since then she was involved in R&D project and Engineering Project focused on hydrogen production, solar energy exploitation through CSP technology, Power to gas, Waste valorization for chemical production. Since 2011 she is tutor assistant at the University Campus Biomedico of Rome in the field of Analysis and Simulation of industrial chemical processes. She co-authored several scientific papers in refereed journals, chapters on international books and patent.
Research Interest
Chemical engineering
Biography
M. A. Martin Luengo, graduated in chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid (UAM, Spain). In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work on oxidation catalysts and her phD on palladium supported catalysts, both with honours and the highest qualification. As a postdoctoral grant holder of the CSIC she worked in catalysts characterization in the University of Brunel in England and then in the University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium. Afterwards she was granted a Fellowship IA to work with the Scientific Engineering Research Council of England on Fischer Tropsch processes towards preparation of fuels from synthesis gas. In 1992 she gained a permanent position of Research Scientist in the CSIC of Spain, where she has been working since. She has more than 110 publications and has been involved in over 120 congresses, has several patents and is a member of several scientific societies, i.e. Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Royal Spanish Society of Catalysis and Spanish society of Clay. She is currently preparing several papers and book chapters on request and has been kindly invited as Scientific Committee Member for several Congresses.
Research Interest
Nowadays she carries out studies in the search for more sustainable materials and chemical processes based on the valorisation of agriresidues, particularly important in less developed countries. This work has been acknowledged by the CSIC recently.
Biography
Wilson is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan and is an Associate Professor with research interests that cover diverse topics in physical chemistry, materials science and environmental chemistry. Ongoing research activities are focused on the development of new types of materials and studies related to adsorption and interfacial phenomena related to water science and technology. The Wilson lab is developing new forms sustainable biomaterials for the controlled removal of contaminants from water and chemical separations using methods based on green chemistry. This research contributes to the science and technology of “smart†adsorbent materials and applications that range across water and energy security.
Research Interest
Science and technology of “smart†adsorbent materials and applications that range across water and energy security
Biography
Dr. Hector M. Guevara is the founder, chairman of the board, and president of various corporations, including NuEnergy Group, Inc., previously a public company trading on the OTC in OTC and now being held inactive (operations/trading stopped). Dr. Guevara has devoted the past 35 years to the research and development of renewable energy systems. Dr. Guevara’s companies designed and or produced many of the most notable solar, wind, and hydroelectric systems deployed throughout the world. The results of his research and development have been assigned to his new Florida Corporation; NuEnergy Technologies Corp. Dr. Guevara is a patent and co-patent holder in various sustainable energy and propulsion technologies. Dr. Guevara has also been the recipient of various grants from Federal Govt. Agencies, e.g., NASA/SATOP, DOE (SBIR), United Nation’s UNICEF, and others.
Research Interest
Renewable energy
Biography
MarÃa José Lavorante was born in Buenos Aires City, Argentina, in 1979. She graduated as Sc Ba Chemistry from the University of Salvador. She is the Director of Research and Development Department of Renewable Energy at the Institution of Scientific and Technological Research for Defense, Argentina. She is Head Professor at the Engineer Faculty of the Army Div. Grl. Manuel Nicolás Savio, in charge of the subjects Organic Chemistry and Organic Synthesis. She has been a reviewer of different manuscripts to be presented in International Conferences as 2017 International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System, 2017 International conference on Water Resource and Environment and 2018. She also works reviewing manuscripts to be published in the scientific journal "Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy". Since 2017 is part of the Advisory Board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing and reviwer of American Journal of Energy Engineering. She delivered several oral presentations in different International Congresses
Research Interest
Chemistry