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Disrupting the Energy Value Chain- Distributed Scale Olefins
Date: Wed, Nov. 14, 2018 from 6-9pm
Location: Basque Cultural Center: 599 Railroad Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Speaker:Dr. Erik Scher, COO of Siluria Technologies
Title: Disrupting the Energy Value Chain- Distributed Scale Olefins
Abstract: Long term global trends are contributing to sustained downward pressure on the value of natural gas and, more generally on any fuel gas streams whose value is directly linked to their intrinsic energy content rather than their potential to act as carbon feedstock for manufacturing.
As a result, resource owners around the world are now faced with the considerable challenge of identifying attractive options to monetize their natural gas resources and provide sufficient net-back to justify the capital investments required for new upstream capacity.
At the same time the remarkable ubiquity, abundance and affordability of gas resources provide a unique opportunity for non-integrated downstream producers to obtain access to lower cost carbon feedstock, to expand capacity in traditionally feedstock-constrained areas and/or to re-optimize their operations via back-integration into base chemicals production.
Silurias unique process technologies (based on Oxidative Coupling of Methane or OCM) represent the ideal solution to this upstream challenge and are an enabler of this new downstream opportunity by converting short-chain alkanes (methane, ethane and propane) into olefins (ethylene and/or propylene) via a carbon-efficient, cost effective, and highly scalable (up and down) single-step process.
Since its inception, Siluria has taken the core competencies it built in order to develop its OCM technology and applied it to develop multiple process technologies. Siluria is currently commercializing its Gemini (methane to ethylene), Modus (refinery waste gas upgrading) and Orion (natural gas to propylene) technologies with its EPC partners; Linde Engineering, Wood (formerly AmecFosterWheeler), and Maire Tecnimont respectively.
Speaker Bio: With a background in chemistry and engineering, Dr. Erik Scher is a technology executive who is commercializing solutions to long-standing challenges in the chemical industry. At Siluria Technologies, he has been both an innovator and a leader, taking the company from a two-person concept to a 70-person operation that has proven its proprietary natural gas conversion processes at pilot and demonstration plants in California and Texas. Dr. Scher has led efforts to develop and commercialize novel technologies at three venture-backed energy/chemicals companies over the last 16 years. He has built and managed technology organizations, including R&D, catalyst scale-up, pilot engineering, plant operations, and process engineering, as well as led commercial teams spanning intellectual property, business development, licensing, project development, and strategic partnerships. He is currently the COO at Siluria where he manages the; R&D, Development/Scale-up, Technology, Operations, and Intellectual Property groups amongst others.
Dr. Scher earned his PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his PhD, Dr. Scher received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Rice University in Houston. He is an inventor on over 80 issued patents, over 100 pending patent applications, and was recognized as a MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovator under 35 in 2004.
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LocationBasque Cultural Center (View)
599 Railroad Avenue
South San Francisco, CA 94080
United States
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