Logistics Viewpoints

Listen in to this fascinating and insightful episode to explore:

• The importance of indoor environmental quality.
• The trade-off between ventilation and indoor air quality.
• What obstacles exist - and how to overcome them
• The reasons for building commissioning
• The future of sustainability engineering.

And much more...

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About Daniel Denis:

Joining RunBrook in 2021, Daniel J. Denis uses his 20-plus years of uniquely diverse design and construction experience to help clients reach their sustainability goals effectively and efficiently. With an education in construction management and professional stops on the design consultant, contracting, and third party inspection sides of the building design & construction process, Daniel’s complimentary educational and professional experiences allow him to most effectively collaborate and communicate with all members of the design and construction team. 

Daniel began working on green building projects as early as 2012 while working as an energy modeler for one of Miami’s leading mechanical engineering firms. He soon found a passion for sustainability in the built environment and earned the LEED Accredited Professional (AP) designation. By 2013 he was the firm’s Green Building Project Manager - leading a team of designers through the LEED submission process while also honing his own skills as an energy modeler on a wide range of projects. 

In 2015, Daniel joined a firm focused solely on green building consulting. Serving there as Energy Engineer & Consultant, Daniel was an integral part in certifying a wide array of projects across various green building rating systems including Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC), National Green Building Standard (NGBS), and ENERGY STAR. 

Daniel holds various professional credentials including: LEED AP with Building Design & Construction Specialty (BD+C), LEED Green Rater, FGBC Certifying Agent, NGBS Verifier, RESNET HERS Rater, and ENERGY STAR Verifier.

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Craig Resnick  & Jim Frazer Wrap-Up the 2023 ARC Industry Forum

Listeners to this episode will explore:

• Craig's Start in the Industry
• The Market Focus of ARC Advisory Group & The ARC Forums
• The Challenges in the Industry Today
• The Future of AI
• Examining the Diversity of the ARC Forum audience.
• Craig’s Perspective on the Current Economy 

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The Fortune 200 recently announced a goal of purchasing 50 billon dollars worth of goods from diverse suppliers in 2030, with current spending being at 29 billon dollars the demand will be exponential. How will diverse suppliers ramp up their production to meet the increasing demand? In this episode, Kelly G Lopez an experienced sustainability supplier professional speaks with ARC analyst Gaven Simon about the future of packaging, diversity in the workplace, and the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). 

For More Information Visit us at: https://www.arcweb.com

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Peter Manos & Jim Frazer Wrap-Up of the 2023 ARC Industry Forum

Listeners to this episode will explore:

• Decarbonization, of the electric sector and oil and gas. 
•  Net zero and circular economy goals. 
•  Sustainability Resiliency and the energy transition.
•  How solution providers  are delivering value

Jim and Peter also focused on a number of fascinating speakers at the Forum including:

Alejandro Burgana from OBE power, who spoke about his network, the second largest network of EV chargers in Florida after Tesla, that, frankly offer a cost solution that's far below the cost of any other provider in terms of cents per kilowatt hour. 

 Milton Kramer who spoke about port electrification of all of the forklifts and the little vehicles that move containers around the port, about the electrification of ship side of shoreside power for the ships themselves, about electric tugboats.

 Curt Ostrodka, VHB engineering, talked about the federal funding programs how to get the funding and how to manage that  stakeholder requirements 

 And Glen Cook, who covered a range of different very exciting initiatives in Central Florida, about autonomous vehicles, vehicle electrification, and more specifically, the developing hub of technology in the Lake Nona area

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Maximizing Environmental Sustainability for Complex Chemical Processes - 
 with Vineeth Ram of OLI Systems

In this episode, Vineeth Ram discusses:

• Environmental Sustainability in industrial chemical processes 
• Role of chemical process simulation in enhancing sustainability
• Carbon capture, transportation, storage and utilization
• Pillars of sustainability
• Asset integrity in geothermal energy production
• Elimination of toxic contamination from air and water 
• Supply of lithium and other critical materials for EV Batteries.
• Evolution of real-time monitoring and automation for operations excellence

Below is an abstract of this conversation:

Process simulation technology is critical to enhancing sustainability – air and water quality, decarbonization, accelerating the energy transition, toxin and contamination free land and natural resources as well as resource conservation and recycling. Designing and operating equipment and processes more efficiently and minimizing unplanned downtime also contribute to sustainability.

Many of the fundamental reactions and phenomena that impact environmental sustainability  such as improving air and water quality, lowering carbon footprint, improving carbon capture, conserving water and expanding reuse, minimizing energy consumption, expanding renewable energy production, storage and recycling of batteries, minimizing waste, effective hazardous waste treatment and, improving environmental safety for harsh and toxic industrial environments are based on electrolyte thermodynamics and water chemistry applications. 

The OLI simulation technology with its comprehensive property database, modeling frameworks and software tools that have been successfully deployed at hundreds of clients is ideally suited for enhancing environmental sustainability. Its solutions are used to enhance yields and lower costs for the extraction, purification, refining, and recycling of critical materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and rare earth elements used in batteries and energy storage. OLI technology is applicable to flue gas treatment in coal power plants and flue gas desulfurization in oil & gas refining processes.  It is used to make carbon capture, transportation, and storage processes more efficient and sustainable in oil & gas, mining, and power generation industries.  In the water treatment industry, OLI’s solutions are used to improve the efficiency of filtration processes and enhance sustainability by eliminating toxic contaminants in water and waste water treatment  including desalination, brine valorization, produced water treatment and reuse. OLI technology is also used to enhance asset integrity in geothermal energy production by mitigating corrosion risk helping to make it cost competitive with other energy sources.

OLI Cloud APIs enable any application to use the OLI technology to simulate complex chemical processes in real-time along with the ability to integrate third-party data and build intuitive user interfaces and dashboards that monitor applications by creating digital twins.

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The ARC Advisory Advancing Professionals' Program, at the ARC Annual Forum - with Guest Luke Martin

Listeners will learn:

• How the ARC Advisory Advancing Professionals' Program has evolved since its inception last year
• Current conversations and developments of the effort
• The importance of networking and networking.
• How to join the advancing professionals program.

Later Luke discusses his perceptions and takeaways of this years ARC Forum in particular his thoughts on the Sustainability Tracking and Reporting, and Sustainability and Resilience sessions.

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Electric and Autonomous Vehicles in Florida – A Fascinating Conversation with Glenn Cook

 Listeners to this episode will learn:

 ·        About the Intelligent Mobility Center in central Florida

·        Where is Lake Nona and why is it important?

·        What Is Beep?

·        What are electric aviation ports for Orlando.

·        About the impact of  autonomous delivery vehicles.

·        The impacts of bidirectional charging for electric vehicles.

·        About Technical and logistical issues with electric utilities.

Tune in for this fast paced insightful, and very energetic discussion!

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How to Decouple Software from Hardware in Industrial Automation - Insights from Greg Boucaud of UniversalAutomation.org

Listeners to this episode will learn:

• How to decouple hardware and software in automation.
• Explore the basis of the technology
• Learn the differences between event-based vs. scan-based automation.
• Examine the vision of Universal Automation.
• Explore target devices for your automation logic
• Learn how to add more functionality to an existing automation process?
• Discuss Artificial Intelligence  for greenfield and brownfield applications.

Our Guest
Greg Boucaud is the Chief Marketing Officer at Universal Automation. Previous to this role he held a number of senior positions at Schneider Electric. For more on Greg please visit his linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gboucaud/

UniversalAutomation.Org is an independent, non-for-profit association managing the implementation of an industrial automation shared source runtime execution engine, based on the IEC 61499 standard. This new level of shared technology provides the basis for an ecosystem of portable, interoperable, “plug and produce” solutions and creates an entirely new category within industrial automation. UniversalAutomation.Org is open to new members looking to advance the world of automation.

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AI in the Real World of Industry – Creating Internal Champions and Driving Success – A Deep Discussion with Peter Harding, Founder & CEO of Kelvin

Listeners to this episode will learn:

 ●         What is AI from an industrial perspective and its objectives?

●         How do you move from a serendipitous approach to a systems engineering approach?

●         How to surmount the obstacles to making AI work in the real world.

●         How does AI fit into the legacy approach to engineering?

●         How do we overcome the obstacles and empower teams to adapt successfully to change?

●         How do you turn an idea into an empowered champion?

●         Why small “copiloted” steps are the best approach for sustainability.

Peter Harding, Founder and CEO- Kelvin

Peter is Kelvin's Founder & Chief Executive Officer. Founded in 2013, Peter leads to empowering companies to achieve their profitability and sustainability goals through the next generation of control. Kelvin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation solutions to optimize complex systems. Peter has over twenty-five years of technology and energy sector experience as an operator, advisor, and investor. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.A. from Pomona College.

About Kelvin

Kelvin is the leading collaborative control software company, delivering industrial intelligence, operational excellence, and reduced emissions. Founded in 2013 by a team of data scientists, developers, domain experts, and automation engineers to solve real-world problems, global industrial enterprises partner with Kelvin to help connect, create and scale control applications across their operations. The company has a global footprint with offices in five countries and headquarters in San Francisco. To learn more, visit Kelvin’s website at https://kelvin.ai

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Allan Gray joins the Smart City Podcast to discuss low cost low impact transportation solutions, as well as a variety of other topics, including supercapacitors.
 
 Listeners will learn about:
 · What’s happening in the Philippines right now.
 · How mobile battery backup can help keep critical operations running during grid outages.
 · How do solar and electric vehicle technologies fit into the Filipino energy and public transport sectors and what kinds of obstacles do they face?
 · The current state of the solar industry?
 · What’s been the perspective of the different stakeholders of these communities about electric vehicles?
 · What do you do if you're a city manager or a citizen activist?
 
 About sunETrike:
 
 The sunEtrike solar electric transport solution handles the vehicles, batteries and solar as distinct units for planning & scaling. The pilot shuttle service mentioned in this episode achieved its targetted ROI of 30% before being shut down by the Coved pandemic and end of contract.
 
 These low-speed electric tricycles are best suited to last mile transportation of people and cargo. They have capacity to carry up to seven passengers or 500 kg of freight, with top operating speeds of 50 km/h. The trikes can travel approximately 40 km per battery charge, depending on weight and hills.  At its peak, our pilot was running 220 to 250 km per day.
 
 The Supercapacitor/HESS project was spun into a new company (Hessner) upon admission into the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park's Incubation Program in 2020
 

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