Sessions
TechnologICAL Advances in Renewable Energy
Technological advancements in renewable energy and energy efficiency research will be discussed. Topics include ethanol, hydrogen and fuel cells, biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind energy.
Featured Speakers:
CHAIR
Head of Technology Transfer and Applications Research
Lewis D. Meixler
Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory
Lew Meixler is Head of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Office of Technology Transfer and Applications Research. In this position he is responsible for establishing sponsored research, licensing opportunities, CRADAs and other collaborations between industry and PPPL He is a registered Patent Agent, and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative national center for plasma and fusion science. The Laboratory is managed by Princeton University for the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. An associated mission for PPPL is to provide the highest quality science education in fusion energy, plasma physics, and related technologies.
Managing Partner
Sebastien Douville
Axios Energy, LLC
Sebastien Douville is a managing partner at Axios Energy, LLC, heading the company’s R&D efforts in technology development, feedstock procurement and by-product treatment. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University’s Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department last June. He also earned a Materials Science certificate. His undergraduate thesis on a novel design of a biodiesel reactor was well received by the engineering faculty, who awarded him the Calvin C. MacCracken and Donald J. Dike Thesis Awards for most innovative independent work and best thesis in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, respectively.
Douville is also the President of the Alumni Council of Engineers Without Borders-Princeton, an organization that aims to better the lives of disadvantaged communities around the world through the appropriate implementation of sustainable technologies. He has headed construction projects in Ethiopia (2006, irrigation system) and Peru (2005, sanitation and water storage).
Dr. Anand Rangarajan
World Water and Power Corporation
Dr. Anand Rangarajan, Executive Vice President, is a solar and water pump specialist. He has 20 years of experience in all aspects of the solar electric business and has pioneered the development of several proprietary solar–driven water pumping systems, products and markets. His systems have been installed in over 20 countries. He holds his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and spent several years working with MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.
Senior Project Manager/Geologist
Mark J. Colmerauer
American Consulting Professionals of New York, PLLC
Mr. Colmerauer has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geophysics from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. Since graduation, he has 14 years experience serving as project manager and geologist for a variety of environmental studies including CERCLA due diligence investigations, environmental remediation, permitting, planning and GIS projects. He has also recently served as a senior scientist for several environmental impact studies related to the New York Power Authority’s Robert Moses Niagara Power Project re-licensing project in Niagara Falls, New York and for three years was one of the principal geologists leading the environmental investigations of hazardous waste disposal sites at the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation facility in Lackawanna, NY. For the last four years, Mr. Colmerauer has also been serving as project manager for a variety of wind farm development projects in New York State and Maryland. His work in that area involves working with the developer in siting projects in rural townships. His role in the wind farm projects involves coordination of New York State Environmental Quality Review Act studies, GIS data management, preparation and completion of Environmental Impact Statement’s, State Historic Preservation Office coordination, wetland delineation, federal and state agency permits and approvals as well as topographic and boundary surveys. Mr. Colmerauer lives in Hamburg, New York and was recently appointed to the Hamburg Environmental Management Commission. He is currently employed as a Senior Project Manager/Geologist at American Consulting Professionals of New York, PLLC located in Buffalo, New York.
Specialist in ethanol technology and environment issues
Dr. Alfred Szwarc
UNICA
Alfred Szwarc has been serving since 1998 as Adviser to the Board of UNICA, the leading Sugarcane Agribusiness Association in Brazil, and chairs UNICA’s Sugarcane Environmental Committee. He is also founder and Director of ADS technology & sustainable development, a consultant firm specialized in renewable fuels and environment issues. Mr. Szwarc has served as a consultant to public and private organizations in Brazil and overseas and has contributed to the development of fuel ethanol programs in various countries.
Prior to his present activities he worked for CETESB, the São Paulo State Environmental Protection Agency, where he served as Director of Environmental Engineering and played a key role in the establishment of the Brazilian and Mercosur motor vehicle air and noise pollution control regulations, improvement of fuel specifications and the no-drive day scheme implemented in the city of São Paulo. Mr. Szwarc was recently selected by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the 10 most outstanding contributors to the development of the Brazilian Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Program.
Mechanical Engineer (1975), he holds a M.Sc. degree in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Leeds, UK (1977). In 1984 he attended as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow a one year Special Study Program in Environmental Management at the University of Southern California, USA.
