Emerging Technology Program

Mission Statement: To advance electrical engineering technology, applications, technical papers and industry standards for emerging technologies within the petrochemical industry. The Emerging Technologies Technical Subcommittee provides an international forum to publish technical papers related to these topics at the annual PCIC conference.
Topics Include:

1. Electrochemical
2. Synthetic crude and fuels
3. Biomass
4. Oils sands
5. Oil shale
6. Methanol, ethanol and hydrogen
7. LNG (Liquified Natural Gas)
8. Other emerging technologies such as renewable energy

The Emerging Technology Technical Subcommittee officers are:​

• Richard Anderson - Chair
• Masoud Hajiaghajani - Vice Chair
• Pratik Shaw - Secretary

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL SESSION I

Monday, September 22, 2025 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Presiding: Richard Anderson, Chair

PCIC-2025-10     Advance Power Quality Awareness with High-Resolution Continuous Waveform Streaming and Recording​

Richard Kirby

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

PCIC-2025-11     Mechanisms and Return of Experiences of Electric Discharges in Ball and Sleeve Bearings of PWM-FED Electric Machines with Focus on Wind Turbine Double Fed Generator​

Lionel Durantay
Christophe Grosselin
Gaetan Miclo
​​Lionel Roth

GE Vernova Power Conversion
GE Vernova Power Conversion
​​GE Vernova Power Conversion
​GE Vernova Power Conversion

PCIC-2025-12     Bus Protection Schemes in Digital Switchgear​

Chinmay Modak
Harshavardhan M Karandikar 
Dinesh Baradi
Joemoan Xavier

ABB Inc
ABB Inc
ABB Inc
ABB Inc