On Friday, May 24th, Jane Kent will speak about Hospital Planning Going Forward.

She will speak on her work at The University of Michigan Medicine in maintaining the facilities documentation and how this is changing. The organization continues to grow and with it the amount of information that needs to be managed and effectively provided to its clients, all with a limited workforce. She will speak about the use of Matterport Scanning technology and the implementation of these scans in tracking and cataloging facility changes.

Jane Kent is currently a Business Process Consultant in the Facilities Documentation and Space Division of the Facilities Planning and Development Department for University of Michigan Medicine where she manages the Matterport Scanning project. Jane and her colleagues have led Michigan Medicine to become a world leading provider in healthcare, education and research. Jane worked for 13 years with City of Cambridge MA in the Traffic and Transportation Department, working closely with Planning Department to facilitate installation of traffic calming measures and safe bike routes throughout the city. After moving to Ann Arbor she worked with the city of Ann Arbor, continuing her work with bike safety and ultimately joined the Michigan Medicine documentation group. Jane is the youngest daughter of a historic figure in the evolution of The Jenks Center, Jim Kent.

On Friday, May 10th, Peter Baldwin, Past President of Ramgen Power System (Ret.), will offer his perspectives on evolving Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) opportunities.

Ramgen Power Systems had successfully developed a supersonic CO2 compression technology with support from DOE-NETL and Dresser-Rand, intended for use in the, then emerging power generation CCS applications. Pete led all commercial discussions with CCS system developers, government agencies, users, and funders alike, worldwide. The CO2 compressor is located between the CCS capture system and the CO2 pipeline, requiring detailed knowledge of both systems and their operating parameters. The industry is now reconstituting itself to support the production of Blue H2, with the associated CO2 collected in the emerging CO2 Hubs. These CO2 Hubs and their piping systems will also support any CO2 Removal (CDR) projects, including the emerging Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems.

Peter Baldwin has been involved in all aspects of the gas turbine and compressor industries for almost 60 years, and has broad general industry knowledge and practice, based on years of global commercial interactions. Base-e; his Boston based independent consulting company focusing on practical product positioning and commercialization strategies for Distributed Energy Technologies, Gas Turbines, and various Air and Gas Compression interests. Pete is the immediate past President of Ramgen Power Systems, a Seattle-based developer of an advanced shock compression technology intended for use as a utility scale CO2 compressor in the, then developing Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) projects and applications. Ramgen has been supported through U.S. Department of Energy funding grants and by Dresser Rand as a strategic investor. Pete is also the past President of Northern Research and Engineering Corporation (NREC), a world-class turbomachinery design services organization, now doing business as part of Concepts/NREC. Prior to its sale to Concepts, NREC was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand. NREC was responsible for the development of Ingersoll-Rand’s PowerWorks Microturbine Technology, now offered by FlexEnergy. NREC was also responsible for an advanced gas turbine recuperator technology that has since been incorporated into the Rolls-Royce WR21 marine gas turbine engine, now operating successfully in the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer. NREC, in cooperation Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce, developed and tested the first 53% efficient Solid Oxide Fuel Cell/Gas Turbine Hybrid (SOFC/GT) at UC Irvine in the late 90’s. Prior to joining NREC, Pete had been Vice President of Sales and Service, North America for Ingersoll-Rand’s Air Compressor Group. Previously, and as the Air Compressor Group Marketing V-P, Pete negotiated and implemented a licensing agreement with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for a mixed-flow blower technology, and an MOU with Daewoo for an I-R Corporate JV in Korea. Pete also spent four years in Europe. The first assignment was as a Centrifugal Compressor Division Area Manager responsible for the UK and Scandinavia with the goal to reenergize the local sales effort. Pete was subsequently promoted to the position of Product Manager Centrifugal Compressor for Europe, Mid-East, and Africa, operating out of the Division manufacturing location in Milan, Italy. Pete returned to the U.S. as Product Manager for Rotary/Recip Compressors in U.S., Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Pete has been a Contributing Editor with Turbomachinery International magazine from 2000 to 2008, and Gas Turbine World since 2020. He has been an associate with Cambridge Energy Research Distributed Energy Practice (Now IHS). Pete Baldwin is a recognized and respected industry leader in the turbomachinery industry with a unique combination of technical understanding and real-world commercial experience. Pete holds a BSME degree from Purdue University.

Professor David Seidman will speak about Northwestern University’s Center of Atom Probe Tomography.

He will explain what is an atom-probe tomograph and then describe two examples of its use: (1) determination of the ratio of carbon 12 (99%) to carbon 13 (1%) in nanodiamonds extracted from a famous meteorite, Allende, which was thought to have been formed before our solar system was created, that is, greater than 4.5 billion years old. (2) the formation of silicon nanowires using aluminum as a catalyst and their complete chemical analysis using our atom-probe tomograph (APT). The APT results are combined with transmission electron microscopy results, which gives a detailed picture of the how the silicon nanowires grow. The need for nanoscale characterization, as in semiconductor chip fabrication which we heard about recently, emphasizes the need for such powerful characterization tools.

David is Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT). David earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.S., and B.S. from New York University, all in Physical Metallurgy. He joined the Northwestern University faculty in1985. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, His current interests center on three high-temperature superalloys: aluminum-based, cobalt-based, and nickel-based. He is specifically interested in understanding the first-order phase transformations (precipitation) that occur in these alloys on an atomic scale utilizing atom-probe tomography (APT) and correlative instruments, which provide information at larger length scales: transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy. In the case of Nickel-based alloys he employs vacancy-mediated lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (LKMC) simulations, which complement and supplement the APT experiments and help to elucidate the mechanisms for nucleation, growth and coarsening.