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How to Maximize Sustainability in Chemical Processes - with Vineenth Ram of Oli Systems 

Listeners to this episode will explore:

• Sustainability in the chemical and other industries.
• How do you model co2 capture and transport?
• Pillars of Sustainability.
• Acid integrity in geothermal energy.
• Air quality and water quality.
• Electric Vehicle Batteries.
• What do you see for the future of automation?
• Real-time monitoring in the industry.
• What to look out for in a proactive manner?

Here's a brief snippet of our discussion: 

Vineeth: 
what we do is understand the chemistry of the process. So for these complex chemical processes, we develop very sound understanding based on the principles of thermodynamics and kinetics. And once we understand them, we're able to model and simulate them very rigorously and very accurately. 

Once you do that, you can start asking a lot of what if questions and scenarios and trying to adjust, you can adjust your inputs and understand you know, what kind of outputs you get. So you can understand how to design these parameters and optimize them. And essentially, this is applicable both if you're designing equipment, as well as if you're designing your process. And now we've also taken it to real time operations, where you actually can make sure that you're operating them more optimally as well with real time monitoring and automation.

We've been doing this for several decades in terms of sustainability, we just didn't necessarily coin it as sustainability and bring it to the forefront. But historically, we've had a lot of applications and handling of a treatment of hazardous nuclear waste materials, and how you store them, and make sure that they're safe, and understands the corrosion mechanisms inside them. So that's been one of our early applications where we've actually looked at making things more sustainable. 

Simply put, for a role I perspective, sustainability is about, you know, a number of different things. It's improving air quality, is water quality, it's just driving more reuse and, you know, sort of better utilization of assets and capabilities. It's also in a big way, driving that decarbonization and energy transition, you know, whether it be through this carbon capture processes, or through more importantly, clean energy sources, so really a wide range of areas and maybe now I can drill into each one of them a little bit to give some details for the audience. So really, I'll start with things like you know, greenhouse gas emissions…..

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