New Frontiers in Resource Recovery Coupled to Carbon Transformations for A Sustainable Climate, Energy, and Environmental Future
Meeting our energy and resource needs while removing greenhouse gas emissions from our emissions, air and ocean is one of our grand societal challenges. Novel materials and processes are needed to capture, use, store, and remove greenhouse gases to foster a sustainable future. Towards this end, advancing the science of fluid-solid interactions in complex environments and harnessing this understanding to develop novel and scalable pathways for resource recovery coupled with carbon management is essential. In this context, we will discuss the role of emerging understanding of the organization and transport behavior of nanoconfined fluids as it relates to the capture, storage, and utilization of CO2 in natural and engineered environments. Novel multi-phase chemical pathways for co-producing hydrogen with inherent carbon removal and hybrid absorption-crystallization pathways in CO2 sourced hydrometallurgical pathways will be discussed in this context. The role of naturally occurring minerals, distributed biomass resources, and low value residues including alkaline residues in enabling our transition to a low carbon future are evaluated.
Biography:
Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Associate Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a field appointment in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Gadikota directs the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group. She held postdoctoral research associate appointments at Princeton University and Columbia University, and a research associate appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her PhD in Chemical Engineering and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Operations Research are from Columbia University. Her BS in Chemical Engineering is from Michigan State University. She is a recipient of the DOE, NSF and ARO CAREER Awards, Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, Inaugural Cornell Rising Women Innovator Award, AICHE Sabic Award for Young Professionals from the Particle Technology Forum, and the ACS Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award.
