(HyPT-3) Overview of Session 6B - Hydrogen from Bioresources and Waste

Thursday 14 September 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm ACST (UTC+9:30)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr Greg Perkins (WildFire), Dr Anna H Kaksonen (CSIRO), Heike Carl Zatterstrom (Boson), PANELLISTS Dr Edgardo Coda Zabetta (Sumitomo SHI FW​​​​​​​), Prof Akshat Tanksale (Monash University), CHAIR Dr Woei Saw (UoA)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr Greg Perkins (WildFire)

Dr. Greg Perkins is a co-founder and CEO of Wildfire Energy, an Australian cleantech developing the MIHG process for converting residual wastes at distributed scale into valuable products including electricity, hydrogen and fuels/chemicals. Greg has 25 years of industry experience with companies including Rio Tinto and Shell International and is also an Adjunct Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland.

Dr Anna H Kaksonen (CSIRO​​​​​​​)

Dr Anna Kaksonen leads the Industrial Biotechnology Group in the Industry Environments Program in CSIRO Environment. With her Group she develops biotechnological processes for environmental and industrial applications in the mining, energy, water supply, waste and wastewater treatment industries. Research topics of special interest have included: bioenergy, circular economy, waste/wastewater treatment and resource recovery, mining biotechnology and bioremediation of contaminated sites.

Heike Carl Zatterstrom (Boson)

Heike is an industrial cleantech entrepreneur and advocate for a sustainable and resource efficient circular economy – making a case for the role that waste can play in green molecules, speed charging and electrification, urban food production, circular construction materials, and climate mitigation.

Heike has spent most of his career as a communicator and analyst for small and big companies within trust-based industries; such as energy security, research services, telecom/internet, and trade promotion services. He has worked in Scandinavia, W/E Europe, Middle East and Central America. Heike holds an MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Carlson School of Management.

PANELLISTS

Dr Edgardo Coda Zabetta (Sumitomo SHI FW​​​​​​​)

Dr Edgardo Coda Zabetta graduated in Energy Technology at Genoa University (Italy) in 1997.

He has a PhD in Combustion Chemistry from Åbo Akademi University (Finland) in 2002. Having joined Foster Wheeler as Research Specialist in 2006, he then continued as R&D manager in Combustion Chemistry and Materials and is now the director of R&D and Patents since 2014 in Foster Wheeler, which became AMEC Foster Wheeler, and ultimately Sumitomo SHI FW.

Prof Akshat Tanksale (Monash University)

Professor Akshat Tanksale, is a group leader in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Monash University, the Carbon Theme leader at the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership and the Deputy Director of ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling. He has pioneered work on Reactive Flash Volatilisation of biomass into hydrogen rich syngas, and CO2 conversion into C1-C2 bulk chemicals such as syngas, formaldehyde and its derivatives, formic acid and acetic acid. He is a lead inventor on 2 patents on Reactive Flash Volatilisation, 3 patents on CO2 conversion, in addition to 2 other patents on circular economy.

His area of expertise is heterogeneous catalysis, nanoporous materials, reaction engineering and green chemistry. He currently leads projects with Woodside and other industry partners on CO2 capture and carbon conversion, using heterogeneous and plasmonic  catalysis. He is also one of the academic supervisors of the student team, Monash Carbon Capture and Conversion (MC3) which recently won the US$250,000 XPrize Carbon Removal student competition.