Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies

Dr. Olayinka (Yinka) Ogunsola is a Senior Program Manager in the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Oil and Natural Gas, where he manages the Department's onshore unconventional oil and gas research and development portfolio. Prior to joining DOE in 2000, Dr. Ogunsola was a National Research Council Senior Research Associate at the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Morgantown, West Virginia. While at NETL, Dr. Ogunsola planned and conducted research in the area of solid-fluid separation transport reactor system in general. Before working at NETL, he was a Research Associate Professor in the School of Mineral Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Ogunsola also worked at the Canada Center for Energy & Mineral Technology (CANMET), the then Western Research Laboratory, Devon, Alberta, Canada as NSERC Research Fellow. Prior to joining CANMET, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Dr. Ogunsola has published over 55 peer-reviewed scientific papers in reputable journals, symposia, and proceedings, and has co-edited two books in the areas of Fuel and Energy Engineering. He has organized and chaired a number of symposia and technical sessions at technical conferences/meetings of American Chemical Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Dr. Isaac K. Gamwo is a Senior Research General Engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (Pittsburgh), where he leads a multi-institutional research group as both the Technical Coordinator and Principal Investigator to extend thermodynamic mineral scale models to high-temperature, high-pressure conditions. Dr. Gamwo has mentored several post-doctoral researchers, doctorate candidates, and summer interns.
Dr. Gamwo is serving a five-year term as a Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineer's (AIChE) Separations division. He is also the current Technical Program Chair of the AIChE's Fluid-Particle Separations area. Dr. Gamwo has recently been elected as the 2024 AIChE's Separations Division Chair.
Dr. Gamwo earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago). He is a Licensed Professional Engineer, a Fellow of AIChE, and a Member of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Dr. Gamwo's work and expertise has garnered recognition through several awards including the 2020 American Institute of Chemical Engineers-MAC Eminent Chemical Engineer award, the 2017 NOBCChE Cannon award for excellence in chemical engineering, and two Gold Excellence in Government awards (2011 Gold Award for Outstanding Professional Employee; 2002 Gold Award for Rookie). Dr. Gamwo previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Akron (Ohio) and Tuskegee University (Alabama), and as an Affiliate Graduate Faculty Member at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond). Dr. Gamwo coauthored the book Design and Understanding of Fluidized Bed Reactors (Verlag 2009) and coedited the book Ultraclean Transportation Fuels (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is credited on over 150 articles and presentations.