Webinar: IChemE Student Summit 2020: Opening Session by Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

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About This Webinar

The theme for 2020 is Chemical Engineering - yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Innovations based on chemical engineering have helped to solve the challenges of the future since 1887. Through science and this innovation, it has enabled industry to meet the current and future needs of society. These solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring longevity and improving quality of life.

We will take a look back and reflect on the contributions of those predecessors:

How are they translated to today's world?
What developments have we built and continuing to achieve now?
We will explore with the help of our expert speakers topics such as renewables and other alternative energy, metallurgy, both industrial and pharmaceutical productions and extraction and also cultivation control engineering among others.

Our success today, in part, is due to having the right path that was set years ago, so what does the future look like and where are we heading? How is the current global pandemic and oil price fluctuations affect how industry may cope and what legacy we can leave when this conversation is had next century.

Agenda

Opening & Introduction - Peter Slane
Presentation: Leadership and Safety in an Uncertain Situation - Trish Kerin
Presentation: The Chemical Engineering Industry of Yesterday - Peter Mullinger
Q&A: Student organising committee

Presenters

Peter Slane

Director, Regions, IChemE

Peter joined IChemE in 2012 as Director of Australasia to oversee the operations of both the Australia and New Zealand offices. He is now responsible for IChemE regions.

Peter graduated as a chemical engineer from Auckland University, New Zealand. He also has post graduate qualifications in applied finance and an MBA. Peter has gathered over 30 years industry and technical experience in New Zealand and Australia. He has also worked with government and public entities on projects such as recycling initiatives and conversion of a waste stream into a valuable saleable product.

Prior to joining IChemE, Peter spent over 20 years at Qenos (and its antecedent companies), Australia’s sole manufacturer and leading supplier of polyethylene and polymers. During this time, he held several high-level senior management positions and up until recently, was the Senior Business Unit Manager that looked after the strategy and management of its specialities business unit.

Peter is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of IChemE.

Trish Kerin

Director, IChemE Safety Centre

After graduating with honours in mechanical engineering, Trish spent several years working in project management, operational and safety roles for the oil, gas and chemical industries.

Trish’s passion for process safety saw her take on advisory committee roles with the Plastics and Chemical Industries Association (PACIA), WorkSafe Victoria Major Hazards Advisory Committee and represented the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) to Safe Work Australia.

Trish currently sits on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) and is a member of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center steering committee.

Trish is a Chartered Engineer, a registered Professional Process Safety Engineer and Fellow of IChemE. She holds a diploma of OHS is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).

In 2015 Trish was awarded the John A Brodie Medal from Engineers Australia for the best paper at the Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress 2015 (incorporating Chemeca). The award recognises Trish’s peer reviewed paper on Process Safety Competency. In 2018 Trish was awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center for her work in advancing process safety worldwide.

Associate Professor Peter Mullinger

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide

Peter Mullinger was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in late 1999. His interest in combustion and gasification continued and was expanded with work for the CRC for Clean Power from Lignite; which involved research focussing on gasification and combustion of brown coals and lignite with the objective of improved process efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas omissions. The rapid growth in renewable energy supply, an aging asset base and a privatised industry reluctant to invest, meant that this work was largely redundant.

His consulting to industry continues and covers all aspects of fuel use including, combustion optimisation, efficiency improvement, environmental emissions assessment and minimisation, process safety and accident investigation, etc. Recent clients include: Adelaide Brighton Cement, Rio Tinto Alcan, Alcoa, Flinders Power, Kimberley Clark, New Zealand Steel, TRU Energy, Outokumpu, Shell Clyde Refinery, Olympic Dam, WorleyParsons.

Peter is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy. He is also a Chartered Engineer (UK) and is lead author of the world’s first ever book on industrial furnace design and operation entitled Industrial and Process Furnaces – Principles, Design and Operation, published by Elsevier Science & Technology Books, Oxford, UK in March 2008. A second, expanded edition was published in March 2014.