Awards have been handed out at the 10th anniversary edition of the Capstone Design & Competition at the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park in Sarnia.
More than 60 students from the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Green Process Engineering Departments at Western University participated by presenting their design projects to a panel of judges comprised of local industry and community leaders.
Here are the winners:
Chemical & Biochemical Processes
First Place: Production of Polymer Grade Lactic Acid from Corn Feedstock
Project Engineers: Michelle Anne Bashaw, Meaghann Susan Buitinga, Shivani Chotalia, and Michael O’Brien
Second Place: High Severity Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Project Engineers: Sharon Flaherty, Nathan Brown, and Mack Atkinson
Energy & Fuels
First Place: Gas to Liquid via Low-Temperature Fischer-Tropsch with Cobalt Catalyst
Project Engineers: Chad Gray, Mike Wood, Colin Gunn, Mario Naric, and Rheece De Veyra
Second Place: Fast Pyrolysis Bio-oil Upgrading via Hydrodeoxygenation
Project Engineers: Douglas Todd Brennand, Aidan Connor Brookson, Andrew Shier, and Jaime Ward
Environmental and Waste Treatment
First Place: Wastewater Treatment of Oil Sands Tailing Water
Project Engineers: Jessica Godin, Tamara Abu-Abed, and Kara Terpstra
Second Place: Supercritical Water Gasification of Sewage Sludge
Project Engineers: Aaron Kennedy Baechler, Rabaab Kaur Chugh, Mitchell Leslie Elver House, and Michael John Nelson
