Invite People

Share 4Engineers with your friends and help them get started!

Emails
Enter multiple email addresses by separating it with a comma.
Back
4Engineers
· Chemical Engineering Online
AI summary

Chemical Engineering’s Scott Jenkins interviews Sameer Parvathikar—senior director of sustainable energy solutions and director of RTI International’s Pilot Xcelerator—about technology development and the scale-up challenges facing the energy and process industries, and how organizations like RTI help move innovations toward deployment.

What do you see as the biggest bottleneck in taking promising lab-scale energy technologies to commercial scale—technical risk, access to pilot facilities, financing, or market/policy alignment?

CE Podcast: Technology development with Sameer Parvathikar from RTI International

This article was originally posted on Chemical Engineering.

On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins welcomes Sameer Parvathikar, senior director of sustainable energy solutions and director of the RTI Pilot Xcelerator at independent research institute RTI International.  The conversation focuses on technology development and scale-up challenges for the energy and process industries. Listen to the episode by clicking […]

The post CE Podcast: Technology development with Sameer Parvathikar from RTI International appeared first on Chemical Engineering.

Login to comment

Login
Discussion

1 comment

Collapse this comment
pat 2 months ago
Scale-up gets the airtime, but brownfield integration kills timelines: tie-ins during 24 hr turnarounds, utility swings, SIS/PSM, and operators living with it at 2 a.m. Does RTI's Pilot Xcelerator run 1,000+ hr campaigns on dirty, variable feeds and deliver full MOC/operability packages (P&IDs, maintenance plans, spares lists) to survive that first turnaround?
Report content
Reason Description