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Norway-Singapore Webinar Series 2020:Decarbonization:
Experiences from CCUS and HydrogenMay 18-29, 2020
15:00-17:00 (SGT)/09:00-11:00 (CET)
Co-organizers:
Prof Alfred HuanExecutive director, Urban and GreenTech Office, A*STAR
Dr Per Christer LundTechnology Counsellor,Innovation Norway Singapore
A/Prof Dr Karthik KumarDirector, Urban and GreenTech Office, A*STAR
Dr Angeline Ong
Team Leader, Urban and GreenTech Office, A*STAR
Facilitators:
Opening remarks
Her Excellency Anita NergaardDeputy Chief Executive (Research), A*STARNorwegian Ambassador to Singapore
Professor Andy Hor
MondayMay 18th
TuesdayMay 19th
WednesdayMay 20th
W1: Singapore engagement in CCUS and hydrogen
W2: Norway's position on Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
W3: Northern Lights CCS: the Norwegian CCS demonstration project
TuesdayMay 26th
WednesdayMay 27th
ThursdayMay 28th
FridayMay 29th
W4: Carbon capture and utilization –technologies and companies
W5: The Norwegian hydrogen landscape
W6: Norwegian hydrogen technologies and projects
W7: Hydrogen and CCUS research activities
CCUS and low carbon energy sources such ashydrogen and hydrogen carriers are part ofNorway's and Singapore's decarbonizationstrategies.
This webinar series aim to bridge experiences,technologies, companies, and researchcooperation between Norway and Singapore.
The seven two-hour webinars covergovernmental, commercial, and R&D aspects ofCCUS and Hydrogen in Norway, in addition toaddressing Singapore's plans and ambitions fordecarbonization.
At a glance:
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Singapore engagement in CCUS and H2This webinar will paint out Singapore’s plans, ambitions, and ongoing activities around CCUS and hydrogen/hydrogen carriers. This lays the foundation for discussions in the subsequent webinars and should be attended by all Norwegian participants.
Webinar 1
Facilitators: Alfred Huan, Angeline Ong
May18 (Mon)
Prof Ho Hiang Kwee
Lead Technologist,National Climate
Change Secretariat“Context of Singapore’s
LEDS, and CCUS/H2”
Dr Chen Xinwei
Head (Integrated Programmes Office)
National Research Foundation“Low Carbon Energy Transition
R&D Strategy for Singapore”
A/Prof Dr Karthik Kumar
Director, Urban and GreenTech Office, A*STAR
“A*STAR and CCUS activities”
Prof Lau Hon Chung
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, National
University of Singapore“CCS potential in Southeast Asia”
Dr Chen Luwei
Senior Scientist, Institute of Chemical Engineering
and Sciences, A*STAR“Making CO2 valuable”
Prof Ho Hiang KweeLead Technologist
National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS), Singapore
As Lead Technologist at NCCS, Hiang Kwee provides advice, analysis and assessment on sustainable energy and climate change mitigation technologies and innovations that enable greenhouse emissions reduction in Singapore’s economy. He works closely with colleagues in NCCS, and many other government agencies contributing to Singapore’s climate change efforts. He also engages actively with researchers and professionals in academia and industry. Hiang Kwee is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University where he spent more than 25 years as a full time academic. He has also worked at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar, and at the Energy Studies Institute (National University of Singapore), the Energy Research Institute@NTU, and the Clean Technology Centre of DNV-GL. He received his university education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).
“Context of Singapore’s LEDS, and CCUS/H2”
Dr Chen XinweiHead (Integrated Programmes Office)
National Research Foundation
Dr Chen is the Head of the Integrated Programme Office at the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office. He manages system-level implementation of technologies and ensures translation of significant research to impactful innovation. Particularly, he develops the Energy Grid 2.0 and Low-Carbon Energy Research programmes by closely with industry partners, government agencies, and research performers.
Prior to joining NRF, Dr Chen was a scientist in the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR. He was also an adjust lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, Singapore and a visiting scientist in the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr Chen obtained his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2012. He was awarded the World Future Foundation Award for his PhD thesis in Environmental and Sustainability Research. Dr Chen then continued his research education in Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a post-doctorate scholar under the International Fellowship programme of A*STAR.
“Low Carbon Energy Transition R&D Strategy for Singapore”
A/Prof Dr Karthik KumarDirector, Urban and GreenTech Office, A*STAR.
Prof. Dr. Karthik Kumar is currently Director of the Chemicals, Materials and GreenTech Cluster and the Urban and GreenTech Office (UGTO) in the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). A 22 year veteran of the Singapore Public Service and awardee of The Commendation Medal (Pingat Kepujian) as part of the 2019 Singapore National Day Awards, he has been in this current position since December 2015. He is in charge of developing the R&D strategy in this sector and initiating research programmes that will lead to economic outcomes. He is concurrently appointed as adjunct faculty in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore since September 2017, and elected as a Committee Member (2018-2020) of the Materials Research Society, Singapore Chapter.
Karthik graduated in 2005 with a Dipl.-Ing (MSc Eng) in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, on scholarship from the Economic Development Board, Singapore and Glaxo SmithKline. In 2010 he received his Doctor of Sciences in Materials Science from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on scholarship from A*STAR. He is married with 2 children, and is variously a polymath, philomath, polyglot, multi-instrumentalist and bookworm.
“A*STAR and CCUS activities”
Prof Lau Hon ChungProfessor, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Dr. Lau Hon Chung is currently a professor at the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at NUS. He has more than 35 years of experience in the upstream petroleum industry. After completing his PhD at Princeton University, Dr. Lau joined Shell Oil Company in Houston, Texas. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility in research and development, operations, project delivery, technical assurance, training, recruitment, technical leadership and project management. He has worked in USA, the Netherlands, Brunei and China on various onshore, shallow water and deepwater oil and gas projects. Within Shell, Dr. Lau was recognized as a subject matter expert in chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR), smart wells and sand control. He was the pioneer of Shell’s horizontal openhole gravel packing process, a well completion technology used by Shell worldwide. He is the inventor of over twenty US, Canadian and European patents, covering a wide range of topics, including new ways to accommodate more wells in offshore platforms, new gravel packing processes, new surfactants for EOR, foam for mobility control, residual oil saturation reduction and new drilling mud formulations. He has authored technical papers in various aspects of EOR, sand control, smart wells, history matching, reservoir characterization and unconventional resources. Dr. Lau has held positions as Chief Production Technologist and Chemist of North America for Shell International, adjunct professor at University of Texas at Austin, honorary professor at China University of Petroleum Beijing, Career Coach at Tsinghua University, adjunct professor at Rice University and Technical Editor of Society of Petroleum Engineer journals. He is a licensed professional petroleum engineer in the State of Texas.
“CCS potential in Southeast Asia”
Dr Chen LuweiSenior Scientist, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Sciences, A*STAR.
Luwei CHEN has been working on heterogeneous catalysis at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences since 2003 and has been the team leader of Catalysis Testing since 2010. She is currently a senior scientist and her research interests include the development of catalysts/materials for renewable/alternative energy, biomass valorization, carbon dioxide capture/utilizations and reaction mechanistic studies.
Luwei is active in both academia and industrial related R&D. She has published more than 70 papers with more than 4500 citations and H index of 33. Some of her papers have been highlighted in prestigious catalysis journals and as research highlights on A*Star’s website. She started to work with several famous engineering and chemical industries such as Rolls Royce, ABB Lummus, Degussa, Lanxess and IHI since 2000. 8 patents have been awarded/filed together with those industrial partners. In particular, she has led the catalyst development of CO2/CO methanation project in collaboration with IHI to the demonstration stage.
Luwei finished her PhD in 2000 from the Department of Physics, National University of Singapore. Before that, she obtained her bachelor and master degrees from Fujian Normal University and Xiamen University respectively. Before she joined A*star, she worked as research assistant and research fellow in the department of Physics and Chemical and Processing Engineering Centre at the National University of Singapore.
“Making CO2 valuable”
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Norway's position on carbon capture, utilisation and storage
In this webinar, we will learn how the Norwegian government has been a strong promoter of CCS activities; including research and development to large scale demonstration and international promoting of CCS. Agencies such as Gassnova and Research Council are working in close cooperation with industry to position Norway in the global lead of CCUS. We will also get an update on CCS and EOR (enhanced oil recovery) activities in Southeast Asia.
Webinar 2
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Karthik Kumar
May 19 (Tue)
Kristin MyskjaAssistant Director General,
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
“The Norwegian national CCUS strategy”
Jon C. KnudsenVice President Global Business Development, Aker Solutions“Carbon capture technology
available today – cost effective modular carbon capture plants
using the Just Catch technology”
Ingrid Sørum Melaaen
Director for the CLIMIT program, Gassnova“CLIMIT: National program for CCS
R&D&I”
Leila FaramarziLead Global Advisory Services, Technology
Centre Mongstad“Technology Centre
Mongstad: large scale Carbon Capture Demonstrator”
Prof Lau Hon Chung
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, National
University of Singapore“CO2-EOR/EGR”
Jon Christopher KnudsenVice President – Global Business DevelopmentAker Solutions
Jon Christopher Knudsen leads business development for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) at Aker Solutions. With nearly 20 years in the oil and energy sector, Knudsen has held several leadership positions in digitalization, customer experience, strategy and HR in the Aker Solutions group. Knudsen joined Aker Solutions after many years in the international consulting company Accenture, where he focused on technology solutions for business insights in oil and energy companies.
Knudsen has a masters degree (MSc) in business, strategy and leadership graduating from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in Norway and the College of William & Mary, Virginia (US).
“Carbon capture technology available today – cost effective modular carbon capture plants using the Just Catch technology”
Ingrid Sørum MelaaenDirector for the CLIMIT program, Gassnova
Ingrid Sørum Melaaen has broad and varied experience as an advisor, manager, business developer and researcher within process and energy industry. She has held various positions in Skagerak Energi, Borealis and SINTEF, and comes from a position as senior technology advisor in Gassnova where she has been since 2017.
Melaaen is educated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (now known as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), has a Master degree in Chemical Engineering and holds a Ph.D. within LNG technology development.
“CLIMIT: National program for CCS R&D&I”
Prof Lau Hon ChungProfessor, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore
Dr. Lau Hon Chung is currently a professor at the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at NUS. He has more than 35 years of experience in the upstream petroleum industry. After completing his PhD at Princeton University, Dr. Lau joined Shell Oil Company in Houston, Texas. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility in research and development, operations, project delivery, technical assurance, training, recruitment, technical leadership and project management. He has worked in USA, the Netherlands, Brunei and China on various onshore, shallow water and deepwater oil and gas projects. Within Shell, Dr. Lau was recognized as a subject matter expert in chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR), smart wells and sand control. He was the pioneer of Shell’s horizontal openhole gravel packing process, a well completion technology used by Shell worldwide. He is the inventor of over twenty US, Canadian and European patents, covering a wide range of topics, including new ways to accommodate more wells in offshore platforms, new gravel packing processes, new surfactants for EOR, foam for mobility control, residual oil saturation reduction and new drilling mud formulations. He has authored technical papers in various aspects of EOR, sand control, smart wells, history matching, reservoir characterization and unconventional resources. Dr. Lau has held positions as Chief Production Technologist and Chemist of North America for Shell International, adjunct professor at University of Texas at Austin, honorary professor at China University of Petroleum Beijing, Career Coach at Tsinghua University, adjunct professor at Rice University and Technical Editor of Society of Petroleum Engineer journals. He is a licensed professional petroleum engineer in the State of Texas.
“CCS potential in Southeast Asia”
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Northern Lights CCS: the Norwegian CCS demonstration project
The Northern Lights CCS project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project including capture of CO2 from two industrial capture sources in the Oslo-fjord region; waste incineration and cement factory. The project also entails shipping of liquid CO2 to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast.
Webinar 3
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Angeline Ong
May 20 (Wed)
Trude Sundset
Chief Executive Officer, Gassnova
“The role of CCS seen from Norway”
Jannicke Bjerkås
Director CCS, Fortum Oslo Varme AS
“CO2 capture from waste incineration
plants”
Per Brevik
Director Sustainability, HeidelbergCement Northern Europe
“CO2 capture from cement factory”
Kjetil Wilhelmsen
Business Development Director, Northern Lights CCS (Equinor, Shell, Total)“Aggregation, transport
and storage of CO2”
Dr Adam Usadi
Energy Center Advisor, ExxonMobil, Singapore“CCS R&D in support of
the Dual Challenge”
Trude SundsetChief Executive Officer, Gassnova
Trude Sundset is a leading global authority on carbon capture and storage (CCS). She is CEO at Gassnova, the Norwegian state enterprise for CCS technology development.
Sundset has broad experience in international organizations as a board member of IEA GHG, CSLF, IPIECA, ZEP and The Hawthorn Club. She has held senior leadership positions in areas of energy, environment and climate issues across the oil and gas industry.
She started her career as a researcher at SINTEF, before moving on to Statoil ASA (now called Equinor). During 19 years at Statoil Sundset held top positions as Chief Researcher, Head of International Environment and Climate and Vice President Environment and Climate.
Sundset holds a Master of Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Her broad-based industrial experience and extensive career has given her a unique insight into industrial development and technological solutions to mitigate climate change.
“The role of CCS seen from Norway”
Jannicke BjerkåsDirector CCS, Fortum Oslo Varme AS
Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås (born 1972) is CCS Director in Fortum Oslo Varme, leading the carbon capture project at Klemetsrud waste-to-energy plant. She has knowledge in energy recovery, recycling and biological treatment of organic waste, and various experience from managing positions within HR, Communications, Strategy, HSEQ and Crisis Management, before starting in Fortum Oslo Varme in August 2017. Bjerkås is a former officer with 4 years of education from the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy, and held different positions within airspace control and intelligence, recruiting and HR in the Air Force. Jannicke holds a Master of Management from BI Norwegian Business School.
“CO2 capture from waste incineration plants”
Per BrevikDirector Sustainability, HeidelbergCement Northern Europe
Per Brevik (65) has a Master degree in Business Administration from Norwegian School of Business Administration (NHH) from 1979.
He had different positions at Institute for Industrial Economy at NHH Ministry of Internal affairs and Bank of Norway before joining the Aker Norcem group in 1989.
Since 1993 he has worked with Alternative fuels development in the cement industry. From 2007 he has been responsible for alternative fuels, climate issues and sustainability in HeidelbergCement Northern Europe.
He has been responsible for the carbon capture project at Norcem Brevik since 2011.
“CO2 capture from cement factory”
Kjetil WilhelmsenBusiness Development Director, Northern Lights CCS, Norway.
Kjetil Wilhelmsen currently a Shell representative to the Northern Lights CCS Joint Venture. In this role he has negotiated the commercial model with the Norwegian state and established a funnel of potential 3rd party customers for Northern Lights CCS, i.e. transportation and permanent storing of liquified CO2. These potential customers represent a wide variety of industries, across North West and Central Europe. Several of these are rapid commercial maturation. Before taking up his current responsibilities, he was based in Doha/Qatar as Upstream New Business Development Manager for Qatar Shell, as well as responsible for establishing a New Energies portfolio in selected countries in the GCC region. Prior to this he was based at Shell’s corporate headquarters in The Hague/The Netherlands, doing global Up- and Midstream New Business Development. Kjetil started his working life in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
“Aggregation, transport and storage of CO2”
Dr Adam UsadiEnergy Center Advisor, ExxonMobil, Singapore.
Adam currently supports a portfolio of R&D at both NUS and NTU as part of ExxonMobil’s participation in the Singapore Energy Center (SgEC), a role he assumed in 2019. Prior to that he served as Planning Manager for the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering R&D as well as head of the Emerging Energy Sciences section of Corporate Strategic Research which includes research in biofuels, carbon capture, climate science, and life cycle assessment. He also led the Complex Systems Science section in data analytics and optimization and has also worked at ExxonMobil's Upstream Research Company in Houston. In that capacity, he focused on algorithmic and computational problems in reservoir modeling and seismic processing.
Adam received his BS in Physics from Dartmouth College, a MS in Materials Science from Hiroshima University, and a PhD in Space Physics from Rice University. He also worked at Goldman Sachs where he supported precious metals trading.
“CCS R&D in support of the Dual Challenge”
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Carbon capture and utilization –technologies and companies
This webinar presents a selection of the Norwegian landscape of companies engaged in gas conversion and utilization of CO2.
Webinar 4
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Angeline Ong
May 26 (Tue)
Gunnar Holen
Chief Executive Officer, Nordic Blue
Crude“Producing synthetic
fuels from CO2”
Klaus Schöffel
Vice President R&D, Norner AS
“Polymer production from CO2”
Torleif Madsen
Chief Executive Officer, Compact Carbon Capture
“Compact carbon capture”
Antonio Oliveira
Researcher, Institute of Energy Technology
“CONVERGE: CarbONValorisation in Energy-efficient Green fuels”
Elsa Feng, Erine Teh, Xu Shichao, John Eow, Adison Wong
Assistant Professors, Singapore Institute of
Technology“Overview of research at
Singapore Institute of Technology”
Gunnar HolenChief Executive Officer, Nordic Blue Crude
CEO in Nordic Blue Crude since February 2016.
Have successfully developed the company and funded it with seed capital. Have negotiated and secured important contracts together with his team, which includes off-take, utilities, CO2 supply, long term renewable Power, Oxygen deliveries / distribution.
Background and synopsis:
Corporate and investment finance professional with 31 years of Investment banking experience. Vast experience from fundraising and M & A Activity.
Previously top rated and high profiled Investment analyst both domestically and internationally.
Has shown high entrepreneurship through founding and developing an Investment Bank from 2 to 50 employees and going from NOK0 to NOK80 in Revenues in five years. Have advised many companies which under his guidance have grown to large companies. Have in all jobs been a significant contributor for the Companies where he worked.
“Producing synthetic fuels from CO2”
Klaus SchöffelVice President R&D, Norner AS
Klaus Schöffel has almost his entire professional career been working within industrial R&D related to environmental technology. He spent over 15 years in Norsk Hydro, where he, among other roles, had overall responsibility for Catalysis and New Energy research. During his time in Norske Skog he held positions as Vice President Corporate Energy and CEO of Norske Skog’s biofuel subsidary Xynergo. As Vice president Technology in Gassnova SF he was responsible for the administration of the governmental CLIMIT fund for R&D related to CCS technology. Before joining Norner as Vice President R&D he had management positions at SINTEF Industry and Teknova AS. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in theoretical photochemistry.
“Polymer production from CO2”
Torleif MadsenChief Executive Officer, Compact Carbon Capture AS
Torleif Madsen is the CEO of Compact Carbon Capture AS, and holds several Board positions within Industry and Property.
With his seat at the Board of the Norwegian Association for CO2 handling and his role in the Norwegian Ministry of Industry and Trades Expert Group for Decarbonising Process Industry (Process 21),
he has a broad overview of both the Norwegian, and the International approaches within CO2 avoidance.
Mr Madsen holds a MSc in Strategy and Leadership from the Norwegian School of Economics, and an additional degree in Project Management.
Prior to his leading roles in Deep Tech and Industrial development, he worked several years in different positions in DNB and other Banks, mainly within Analytics, Business development, and heading Product Development.
“Compact carbon capture”
Antonio OliveiraResearcher, Institute of Energy Technology
Antonio Oliveira is a Mechanical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry on the topic “Downdraft Gasification of Biomass: Experimental Investigation and ASPES Plus Simulation.” He holds a position as a researcher at IFE, where he is participating in several national and international projects in the field of sorption-enhanced reforming (SER) and its integration with bio-refineries—acting as researcher and manager of the EU project “CONVERGE: CarbON Valorisation in Energy-efficient Green fuels.”
Before joining IFE, he worked for the Centre of Strategic Studies and Management in CTI, in Brasília, at Aston University (United Kingdom), and CIRAD (France), where he worked with cutting-edge research on biofuels and development of bioeconomy policies for Latin America while creating a broad network with professional from all over the world.
Parallel to his activities in IFE, he works as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Hemispheric Program Bioeconomy and Productive Development coordinated by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture – IICA.
“CONVERGE: CarbON Valorisation in Energy-efficient Green fuels”
Dr Elsa Feng XueAssistant Professor (Engineering)
Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr Elsa Feng Xue obtained her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in June 2016. Her PhD specialization is on energy storage system modelling and control for renewable energy systems and electric vehicles (EV). She joined Land Transport Authority of Singapore and worked in e-mobility office from September 2015 to June 2017. She coordinated a nation-wide EV car sharing programme, the first pure electric bus trial and an autonomous electric tram trial in Singapore. She also provided technical consultation for EV charging infrastructure development and formulation of national charging standard. Since September 2017, she has been working as an Assistant Professor in Singapore Institute of Technology. Her research interests include microgrid operation and planning, data analytics applications in power system, data-driven energy storage system modelling, planning and control.
Projects she is currently working on:
• IoT based Real Time Energy Monitoring and Management Framework with Uncertainty Level Management.
• A scalable and secure energy data collection and analytics system
• Combined Solar Photovoltaic System (PVS) and Energy Storage System (ESS) at SIT@NYP
• Development of Next Generation Lithium-Ion ESS solution & Smart Distributed ESS management application for fire hazard mitigation under Hot-Humid climatic condition
“Overview of research at Singapore Institute of Technology”
Dr Erine Teh Siew Pheng Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering and Food Technology) Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr Erine Teh holds a PhD in Heterogeneous Catalysis where she did her research thesis at the Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon, CNRS (IRCELYON) on the topic of Hydrogen Purification in Bio-H2 Project (ERK6-CT-1999-00012). Her research work in this area continued with ICES A *Star to develop structured gold-based catalyst in a Corning funded project (Patent no. WO/2011/106213). She has later joined Keppel as a R&D Engineer in Waste-to-Energy process and eventually involved in the Natural Gas Liquefaction Process Design. Since joining SIT in 2018, she has been actively working in the area of Waste-to-Energy/Resources teaching and research using her skills and experience from the past. Her is currently working on the PRIMO project (Platform for Interconnected Micro-Grid Operation) funded by EDGE Grant GC2018-003 (Exploiting Distributed Generation) to study the feasibility and optimisation requirement of using decentralised municipal waste sources as Distributed Energy Sources (DER).
“Overview of research at Singapore Institute of Technology”
Dr Xu ShichaoAssistant Professor (Chemical Engineering and Food Technology) Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr. Shichao XU is an Assistant Professor from the Chemical Engineering and Food Technology Cluster in Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Before joining SIT, he was working with various international engineering and automation consulting firms such as Yokogawa Electric International, DHI Water and Environment and Singapore energy and utility company, SP Group. His research interests include developing advanced control and integration strategies for industrial oil & gas processes as well as commercial energy systems. His experience in the energy sphere include participating in energy related projects such as energy audit and microgrid development for industrial manufacturing plants and commercial buildings. Furthermore, while working with SP Group, he was the technical lead for the development of alternative fuels for power generation in Singapore and an optimizing controller for commercial microgrid system.
“Overview of research at Singapore Institute of Technology”
Dr John Eow Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering and Food Technology)
Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr John Eow is an Assistant Professor in chemical and process engineering with Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He is very passionate on teaching, learning and applied research. John is also Chartered Chemical Engineer (UK) and Professional Engineer (P.E.) (Malaysia) with a proven track record and more than 15 years’ experience in the Oil & Gas industry, specializing in technologies and processes for crude oil dehydration-desalting, produced water treatment (PWT), seawater treatment, offshore sand separation, multi-phase flow and separation, and gas separation and treatment. His PhD work was in crude oil dehydration and desalting technology.
John has also performed many detailed engineering work including P&IDs, process flow diagrams (PFDs), heat & mass balance (HMB), process control, cause & effect diagram, operation manuals, etc. He is also a professional HAZOP Study facilitator, and has successfully conducted HAZOP workshops for oil & gas companies.
He has worked as specialist process engineer with companies, such as Global Process Systems (Malaysia), KEPPEL Offshore and Marine (Singapore), CAMERON Process Systems (Singapore, Japan and Malaysia), etc.
His industrial experiences cover from Technical and Commercial Proposal work to Detailed Engineering Design to Commissioning to Production Improvement and Troubleshooting for oil & gas production processes. He has also completed process engineering consultancy work, technical training and HAZOP review workshops for many clients, including Saudi Aramco, SABIC Saudi Arabia, PETRONAS, SHELL, GAIL India, CNOOC China, Murphy Oil Malaysia, CPOC, PROSERNAT, Boustead-Salcon Water Solutions Singapore, HI Technics System Malaysia, Sapura Energy Malaysia, ALTON International Singapore, LOTTE Chemicals Titan Malaysia, HS Compression and Process (HSCP) Singapore,
“Overview of research at Singapore Institute of Technology”
Dr Adison Wong Choon KitAssistant Professor (Chemical Engineering and Food Technology) Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr Adison Wong is Assistant Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering and Food Technology at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). His research interests include metabolic engineering, microbiome engineering and bioprocessing. Adison is actively involved in the discussion of research initiatives with national agencies and has organized multiple conferences and workshops to promote synthetic biology in Singapore. His research were published in flagship journals including Molecular Systems Biology (awarded Best Research Article 2011), BMC Biology and Nature Communications.
“Overview of research at Singapore Institute of Technology”
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The Norwegian hydrogen landscapeThis webinar gives a high-level overview the Norwegian hydrogen landscape before concentrating on safety and life-cycle aspects of hydrogen and hydrogen carriers.
Webinar 5
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Karthik Kumar
May 27 (Wed)
Jan Carsten GjerløwSenior Advisor, The Norwegian
Hydrogen Forum“Overview of the
Norwegian H2 landscape”
Torkild R. ReinertsenChairman, Reinertsen New
Energy AS/Hydrogen Mem-tech AS
“Emission-free production of hydrogen and ammonia (with CCS) for significant
reduction of CO2-emission in multiple sectors”
Asmund HuserSenior Principal
Specialist, Safety Risk Management, DNVGL “National and industry standards for handling
H2”
Geirmund VislieVice President
Hydrogen Safety, Gexcon AS
“Modelling and risk management”
Prof Huajian GaoDistinguished University
Professor, Nanyang Technological University.
Scientific Director, A*STAR“Hydrogen embrittlement in
metallic nanowires”
Jan Carsten GjerløwSenior Adviser, The Norwegian Hydrogen Forum
Jan Carsten has for more than ten years worked within different positions to foster the development and use of hydrogen in Norway. He has prepared assessments and surveys, nationally and internationally, and has extensive experience from establishment, management and participation in international cooperation and international projects. He has an extensive national and international network, including business, research, local and regional authorities and funding agencies.
Jan Carsten has been CEO of Hynor Lillestrøm, a test center for hydrogen and fuel cell technology, and director of Oslo Renewable Energy and Environmental Cluster. He is currently Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Hydrogen Forum, and CEO at his own consultancy. Jan Carsten was Europe´s first private owner of a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (Hyundai iX35), in July 2015.
“Overview of the Norwegian H2 landscape”
Torkild R. ReinertsenChairman, Reinertsen New Energy AS/Hydrogen Mem-tech AS
M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Univ. of Illinois (USA) and ETH in Zurich.
For 30 years, president of REINERTSEN AS, delivering Engineering and EPC projects to the oil&gascompanies.
Now, chairman and owner of REINERTSEN New Energy, focusing on concepts for clean and efficient hydrogen production with CCS.
Also, chairman and owner of HYDROGEN Mem-Tech that has developed the very efficient Palladium membrane separator for separation of hydrogen from syngas.
“Emission-free production of hydrogen and ammonia (with CCS) for significant reduction of CO2-emission in multiple sectors”
Prof Huajian GaoDistinguished University Professor, Nanyang Technological University.Scientific Director, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR.
Huajian Gao received his B.S. degree from Xian Jiaotong University in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from Harvard University in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He served on the faculty of Stanford University between 1988 and 2002, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1994 and to Full Professor in 2000. He served as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research between 2001 and 2006, and then as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering at Brown University from 2006-2019. At present, he is Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University and Scientific Director of Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.
Professor Gao’s research has been focused on the understanding of basic principles that control mechanical properties and behaviors of materials in both engineering and biological systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the flagship journal of his field. He has been elected to memberships in US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. He has also received numerous awards and honors, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics from the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the William Prager Medal from Society of Engineering Science, the Nadai Medal from American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Theodor von Karman Medal from American Society of Civil Engineers.
“Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic nanowires”
15:10 (SGT) 15:30 15:50 16:10 16:30 17:00 (SGT)
09:10 (CET) 09:30 09:50 10:10 10:30 11:00 (CET)
Norwegian hydrogen technologies and projects
This webinar showcases some of the increasing number of companies and technologies are entering the hydrogen value chain in Norway: production; transport; storage and utilization solutions for maritime and land transport sectors.
Webinar 6
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Angeline Ong
May 28 (Thu)
Bjørn Simonsen
Vice President Investor Relations
& Corporate Communication,
NEL ASA“Green hydrogen from renewable
sources”
Steinar Eikaas
Vice President Low Carbon Solutions,
Equinor“Blue hydrogen
from fossil sources with carbon
capture”
Ragnhild Hancke
Research Scientist IFE | Coordinator FME MoZEES:
Norwegian Research Centre on Zero Emission
Energy Systems for Transport
“Hydrogen application in the Norwegian transport
sector”
Ivan Østvik
Project manager, Norled
“Green shipping -building the first ship running on
LH2”
Prof (Neal) Tai-Shung Chung
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, National
University of Singapore“Polymeric membranes for
H2 separation and CO2 capture”
Dr Liu Ming
Research Lead, Maritime Energy and Sustainable Development Centre of
Excellence, Nanyang Technological University
“Low carbon marine fuel –global and tropical
perspective”
Ragnhild HanckeResearch Scientist IFE | Coordinator FME MoZEES: Norwegian Research Centre on Zero Emission Energy Systems for Transport
Dr Ragnhild Hancke has worked as a research scientist at IFE since 2017, where her main area of research is water electrolysis technologies and systems. She is currently responsible for establishing a high-pressure (350 bar) PEM water electrolysis test rig at IFE (one out of three nodes in the national research infrastructure N-FCH), and she is involved in the development of detailed electrochemical and techno-economic models for hydrogen production and refueling systems in several projects. Dr. Hancke is the coordinator of the research center FME MoZEES, and she finally heads Research Area 3 in the same center (addressing hydrogen and battery systems and technologies in the transport sector). Dr Ragnhild Hancke obtained her PhD degree in Materials Chemistry from the University of Oslo in 2013, specializing in ceramic materials for SOFCs and gas separation membranes. She later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, focusing on the self-healing properties of ceramic membranes.
“Hydrogen application in the Norwegian transport sector”
Prof (Neal) Tai-Shung ChungProfessor, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Prof Chung is a Provost’s Chair Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water and clean energy. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK) Underwood Medal for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was a highly cited researcher in Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering by the Elsevier and Shanghai Global Ranking in 2016 and received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from International Desalination Association (IDA) in 2016. He is also a highly cited researcher from Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019. His H-index = 103 (Scopus) or 120 (Google Scholar); Number of citations > 40,389 (Scopus) and > 52,665 (Google Scholar) (March 19, 2020).
“Polymeric membranes for H2 separation and CO2 capture”
Dr Liu MingResearch Lead, Maritime Energy and Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence, Nanyang Technological University
Dr. Liu Ming started his research career in 2002. He has been working for both public and private sectors with multiple roles, including fundamental R&D, product development, and project management. His expertise covers material science, chemical engineering, environmental technology, and product development. He is currently working as a research lead from Maritime Energy and Sustainable Development (MESD), Nanyang Technological University. His research is carried out around low carbon alternative fuels and renewable energy sources for shipping.
“Low carbon marine fuel – considerations for Singapore”
15:10 (SGT) 15:30 15:50 16:10 16:30 17:00 (SGT)
09:10 (CET) 09:30 09:50 10:10 10:30 11:00 (CET)
Hydrogen and CCUS research activitiesThis webinar will give an overview of R&D on CCUS and hydrogen in Norway and Singapore and facilitate discussion on R&D cooperation between leading institutes and universities in the two countries. NB: this webinar is extended to 10:30 SGT/11:30 (CET)
Webinar 7
Facilitators: Per Christer Lund, Alfred Huan
May 29 (Fri)
Mona J. Mølnvik
Center Director, SINTEF Energy Research
“The Norwegian CCS Research Center”
Steffen Møller-Holst
Vice President, SINTEF Industry
“Hydrogen research in Norway”
Prof Hans C. Eilertsen
Professor, UiT – The Arctic University of
Norway“Biological
utilization of CO2”
Richard H. Heyn
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF
Industry“Overview of CCU
research at SINTEF”
Prof Chan Siew Hwa
Professor, Energy Research Institute at Nanyang
Technological University“Hydrogen and fuel cell
research at ERI@N, Singapore”
Prof. Bruno Pollet
Professor, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
“NTNU Hydrogen Team”
Richard H. HeynSenior Research Scientist, SINTEF Industry.
Richard Heyn received his Ph. D. in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1992. After post-doctoral studies in the US and Canada and 2 plus years in industry, he started at SINTEF in 1998 in the area of homogeneous catalysis. He started working on carbon dioxide utilization around the turn of the century and has led a number of publicly and industry financed projects in this area. He is currently coordinator of the EU H2020 project "C123: Methane oxidative conversion and hydroformylation to propylene". He is also a member of the Industrial Research and Innovation Advisory Group of the EU H2020 public-private partnership SPIRE, "Sustainable process industry through resource and energy efficiency". He has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and popularized scientific articles.
“Overview of CCU research at SINTEF”
Prof Chan Siew HwaProfessor, Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Prof Chan leads hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), where he was one of the founders and a Co-Director. He is also the Vice Director of Sino-Singapore International Joint Research Institute in Guangzhou Knowledge City, China. Prof Chan obtained his PhD from Imperial College London and is a Professor in the School of MAE and President’s Chair in Energy. Prof Chan is a Director of Maz Energy and Xin Xiang (Guangzhou) Hydrogen Technologies. He is a consultant to Total SA and had served as a member of Advisory Board to NTU President and Provost, Management Board of Energy Studies Institute, Advisory Board of Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City Think Tank, etc.
Funded by UK’s Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Dr. Chan’s PhD research was inclined to Heavy-Duty Internal Combustion Engines, but he extended his interest to hydrogen and fuel cells since 1997. He was the Organizer/Program Chair of 1st World Hydrogen Technologies Convention, Singapore in 2005 and Conference Chair of HYPOTHESIS XIII in 2018. From 2006 to 2008, he held a joint appointment with A*STAR as Director of SERC Fuel Cell Program. Prof Chan was also a Principal Investigator in Singapore-Peking University Research Centre for A Sustainable Low Carbon Future funded by National Research Foundation in 2011-2016.
“Hydrogen and fuel cell research at ERI@N, Singapore”
