Description
Sessions:
1 – Europe/APAC 11 Feb, 2025, 09.00 UTC.
2 – Americas/APAC 12 Feb, 2025, 21.00 UTC.
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Join us for an exclusive webinar with the Global CCS Institute, exploring the latest insights from the Institute’s Global Status of CCS Report and CCS Technology Compendium. Discover how these essential resources connect to the steel industry’s journey toward lower emissions and innovative solutions. Gain valuable perspectives from experts of the Institute and learn how CCS technologies can drive meaningful change across the steel industry.
What you will learn:
Speaker Introduction
Hugh Barlow
Carbon Capture Technologies Lead
Hugh is a chemical engineer, and before joining the Institute, he worked in the industrial gases sector in Australia and New Zealand. His experience includes the operation and process improvement of Air Separation Units, Natural Gas Liquefiers, Pressure Swing Absorbers, Hydrogen Steam Methane Reformers, and Carbon Dioxide Capture facilities.
Hugh holds a Bachelor’s in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland. Hugh is an active volunteer in the chemical engineering profession in Australia as the Early Career Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers National Board of Australia and the Engineers Australia Representative to the Joint Victorian Chemical Engineering Committee.
Shahrzad Shahi, PhD.
Carbon Capture Technologies Lead
Shahrzad is a chartered professional chemical engineer with more than seven years of experience in the oil and gas sector in the Middle East and a further 8 years of experience in renewable hydrogen production and storage pilot plant development projects in Australia.
Shahrzad’s main expertise is in process-related mathematical and analytical modelling, concept development and feasibility studies, troubleshooting, and process improvement projects.
Shahrzad received her PhD in metal-hydride tank system design for renewable energy storage applications from Griffith University. She has been part of the research and supervisory teams at key universities in Queensland, Australia, and currently is an industry fellow at Faculty of Engineering of Queensland University of Technology.
David T. Kearns, PhD.
Principal Carbon Capture Technologies
David’s experience spans over 25 years in oil & gas, electricity generation, petrochemicals, biofuels, engineering design, process engineering research, industrial AI, carbon & energy consulting, greenhouse gas reporting & assurance, and sustainable processing.
As a technical specialist with the Institute, David advises industry and government partners on carbon capture and storage technology, modelling, engineering, economics and strategy. David is also an experienced process engineer with particular expertise in the design of separation processes, including adsorption cycles, distillation, membrane and solvent-based separations.
David has been a lecturer in process design at the University of Melbourne and a lecturer in sustainable processing at Monash University. He has also delivered webinars and technical training programs to audiences around the world.
David holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (1st class honours), a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce in Management, all from Monash University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy.
