Abstract: In November, Dr. Marco Castaldi, Professor at CCNY Chemical Engineering Department, will discuss the impact of the waste or garbage, estimated at nearly four pounds per person, generated in the U.S. daily. “That amount of waste requires all possible solutions to be deployed from reuse to energy recovery and everything in between,” says Castaldi. “Research that has been conducted by my lab group and many other practitioners, researchers, policy makers and municipalities demonstrates there is a preferred hierarchy that should be followed to manage the waste sustainably.”
Speaker: Dr. Marco J. Castaldi, Professor, Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, and Program Director of Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering, and the Earth Engineering Center at CCNY.
Prior to joining CCNY, he was an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Earth & Environmental Engineering Dept. Prof. Castaldi has approximately 90 peer-reviewed research articles, 40 peer-reviewed conference papers, three book chapters and eleven patents in the fields of catalysis, combustion and gasification. He was the Editor of the North American Waste to Energy Conference Series, Co-Editor of the Waste to Energy text (Woodhead Publishing), and Editorial Board Member of Waste and Biomass Valorization (Springer) and Catalysts.
Prior to his academic career, Prof. Castaldi worked first as Manager of Fuel Processor Component Development for Precision Combustion Inc. (New Haven, CT). Marco is Past Chair of the Materials and Energy Recovery Div. of ASME, Past Chair of the Research and New Technology Council of AIChE and recent Past-Chair of the North American Catalysis Society’s New York Metropolitan Section.
A Native New Yorker, Marco received his B.S., ChE (Magna Cum Laude) from Manhattan College. His Ph.D. is in Chemical Engineering from UCLA, and he has minors in Advanced Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics.
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Members and Guests:
* Members of the Local Section $25;
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Note: PDH credits (when offered): an addit. $10.
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Deadline: No reservations taken after Thursday, November 16th at 5 pm ET.
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Save the Dates: 2017-18 Meeting Dates
• Monday, Nov. 20th
Topic: Transforming Waste Materials to Energy & Chemicals: An Update on Sustainable Waste Management
Speaker: Dr. Marco J. Castaldi, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, and Program Director of Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering, and the Earth Engineering Center at CCNY.
• Thursday, Dec. 14th. We will be participating in the December ASME, Metro New York Section’s meeting at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Further details in due course.
• Tuesday, Jan. 16th / • Tuesday, Feb. 20th / • Monday, Mar. 19th / • Monday, Apr. 16th / • Monday, May 21st / • Monday, Jun. 18th
