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Finalists

CEGEN Green Energy, LLC
Power Generation Unit uses proven “wind” technology to capture and convert compressor cooler exhaust into electricity. Unit can produce a range of 15,000 to 70,000 kWh per annum depending on cooler or HVAC application, for a low upfront investment, reasonable installation and maintenance costs.
Contact: Stephen Morgan, President & Founding Partner
smorgan@cegengreen.com; 587-998-9394


Fleet Energy America, Inc.
Offering a small scale LNG/CNG dispenser unit ideally suited for stranded gas sites. Also, offering a "TRIFUEL Modular Alternative Fueling Station" that is a modular, plug and play vehicle fueling platform dispensing 3 Alternative Fuels: CNG, LNG and Electric Vehicle Charging.
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Contact: Perry Babb, President
pbabb@fleetenergy.com; 814-574-9121


Frontier Natural Resources, Inc.
Operates a small scale natural gas liquefaction facility in Mansfield, PA utilizing natural gas from an adjacent gathering and compression facility. The plant uses a system designed by Dresser-Rand, powered by an 800 kW natural gas generator. LNG is stored on site in vacuum insulated cryogenic storage tanks until transported to market.
Contact: Tim Miller, Engineering Manager
tim.miller@frontierNR.com; 814-404-8085


Mairfab Inc.
Providing a heavy-duty mat product manufactured from recycled auto/truck tires bonded together with a proprietary adhesive compound cured under pressurized conditions. Performance of the “re-bonded rubber” matting indicates exceptional durability, enhancing efficiency and worker safety at drilling/frack sites.
Contact: Michael Gates, President
michaelg@mairfabinc.com; 717-419-4056


National Energy Technology Laboratory
NETL researchers have developed a cost effective and near real-time early kick detection system which will provide drilling operations with an early warning before the kick ascends to the rig floor. This system leverages data obtained from logging while drilling, measurement while drilling, or seismic while drilling signals to detect kicks near the drill bit taking advantage of existing data transfer systems. 
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Contact: Jessica Sosenko, Technology Transfer Program Manager
Jessica.sosenko@netl.doe.gov; 412-386-7417

PetroMar Technologies, Inc.
FracView™ is a low-cost LWD borehole imaging tool utilizing advanced dynamically focused acoustic transducer technology to obtain a very high resolution acoustic borehole image in any liquid (including oil-based or synthetic) mud system. Data processing integrates with existing off-the shelf petro physical software packages and borehole image processing modules.
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Contact: Earle Drack, VP of Business Development
edrack@petromartech.com; 610-506-5701

Quiet Professional Solutions LLC
Developed a line of covert, persistent video surveillance systems concealed in traffic barrels and plastic jersey barriers at shale well sites to provide variable image fields ranging from a single narrow view to full panoramic imagery.  Infrared illuminators provide day/night imaging capabilities.  Video is stored on a DVR, with the option to include a cellular gateway for wireless access or real time monitoring.
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Contact: Daniel Hilty, President & CEO
dhilty@qpsolutions.us; 724-762-2898

Sensor Networks, Inc.
Developed a commercially available product line of permanently installed battery powered ultrasonic sensors that provide remote, wireless data collection of critical piping infrastructure's wall thickness data. The evolutionary product line is intended to offer the highest performance, non-intrusive corrosion monitoring solution at the best price point in the market.
Contact: Jim Barshinger, President
barshinger@sensornetworksinc.com; 814-466- 7207

TechKnowServ
Provides a Total Asset Management solution for "flow iron" (high pressure oil and natural gas fracking and flow back equipment). Seeking to expand capabilities to offer a semi-automated solution integrating RFID and sensing technology with probabilistic failure algorithms to allow proactive routine maintenance based on identified failure models.
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Contact: Tom Hay, President
tomhay@techknowserv.com; 814-237-0144

Tri-Force Consulting Services Inc. 
MyShaleWell™ is a commercially available SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) cloud based platform to manage complete well site logistics, acting as a marketplace to connect key providers and services essential for productivity and efficiency of workers, processes, materials, equipment, monitoring, training, safety and security in real time. ​
Contact: Manish, Gorawala, Founder & CEO
mgorawala@triforce-inc.com; 215-740-6806 ​


Posters

Cold Energy Recovery from LNG Regasification
Contact: nkhan@andrew.cmu.edu; LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/nyla-khan

Microemulsion phase behavior model: extension of HLD-NAC based equation of state to include impure excess phases
Contact: Daulet Magzymov, PhD graduate student, Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University
dqm5519@psu.edu; Advisor: Dr. Russel T. Johns 

Effect of Brine Nyla Khan, M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University  Composition on Oil Recovery from oil-wet Carbonate Reservoirs
Contact: Prakash Purswani, Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University
pxp5185@psu.edu; Adviser: Dr. Zuleima Karpyn

Optimizing Sensor Placements for Infrastructure System Management by using Probabilistic Models and Value of Information
Contact: Carl Mailings, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University
cmalings@andrew.cmu.edu 
Climate Effects of Power from Coal and Gas - CCS Timing, Methane Emissions, and Climate Uncertainty
Contact: Greg Schivley, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University
gs1@cmu.edu 

Reservoir Souring Experiments, Modeling and Understanding
Contact: Hang Wen, Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University
hzw122@psu.edu; Advisor: Dr. Russel T. Johns 

Fast and Robust Pattern Recognition for Re-Stimulation Candidate Selection using Subsurface Big Data
Contact: Eddie Udegbe, PhD Candidate, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
ezu102@psu.edu 

Feasibility Study of Fuel Alternatives to the CMU Shuttle Service
Contact: Srijana Rai, Graduate Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University
srai@andrew.cmu.edu

Exhibitors

Aridea Solutions*
Developing an on-demand pneumatic actuated valve system operated through a proprietary software interface via the internet (IoT), allowing remote control at hard to access midstream sites 
Contact: Christopher May, Account Executive
cmay@aridea.com; 304-342- 0796

Epiphany*
Providing a well pad based hybrid powered (solar, NG, or hard-wired) produced water remediation solution housed in 20 ft. shipping containers that uses a proprietary crystallizing chamber where all of the contaminants in the water drop out, leaving pure steam that can be further evaporated for zero discharge
Contact: Gordon Craig, Chief Technology Officer
gordon@epiphanysws.com; 412-465- 0601

INS – Industrial & Enterprise IoT Solutions
INS distributes products, offers technical support and provides IT services for wired and wireless machine networking applications. INS provides its customers with best-in-class products, support and services for their critical wired and wireless machine networking applications with an emphasis on “Internet of Things” (IoT) solutions.
Contact: Nick Swartzbeck, Business Development Manager
nswartzbeck@industrialnetworking.com; 412-297-9874  

KCF Technologies*
Company “gives machines a voice” utilizing wireless vibration sensor diagnostics and transmitting data via the cloud to provide a system-level dashboard that reports equipment health, avoiding problems like unexpected failures of pumps, fans, and compressors
Contact: Jeremy Frank, President
jfrank@kcftech.com; 814-867-4097   

Optimum Pumping Technology*
Offers high-performance manifolds for reciprocating NG compressors that eliminate pulsation control bottles and their vibration-related failures, significantly improving compressor reliability and efficiency 
Contact: Glen Chatfield, President
gchatfield@optimum-power.com; 412-257-9070

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Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University
The Center focuses on using and delivering the energy we already have more efficiently through:
  • Expanding the mix of energy sources in a way that is clean, reliable, affordable and sustainable
  • Creating innovations in energy technologies, regulations and policies
Contact: Amanda King, Media Coordinator
alking@andrew.cmu.edu; 412-268-6741
Synergos Global Solutions
Developing, promoting and transitioning innovative technological solutions to threat detection and classification challenges encountered daily by emergency service responders, increasing the capacity of the responder community through the development and fielding detection/analysis tools that will better prepare the contemporary Emergency Service Provider to react more quickly and with greater confidence to current and emerging threats.
Contact: Adam Miller, Chief Executive Officer
amiller@synergosglobal.com; 616-227-6826

TM Filtration*
Provides filtration technology to effectively separate for removal the NGL’s and other contaminates (including water) from natural gas through the use of their Gas Flow Membrane Technology
Contact: Carl Steiner, Founder
Carl_Steiner@fluideng.com; 814-456-1448

TZero Research & Development, LLC
Specializes in the development of low-cost and low-power acoustic sensors capable of remotely detecting the presence and concentration of methane levels to sub-100 ppm accuracy.  Deploying multiple sensors enables the creation of a wireless mesh of measurements that allow for remote monitoring of infrastructure health and possible gas leakage.  With disruptively low price targets, the overall costs associated with monitoring gas leakage at the main well sites as well as along the transportation pipelines are dramatically reduced.
Contact: Stephen Wells, Co-Founder, Acoustician
stephen.wells@tzerolabs.com; 814-931-6905

Verizon Wireless IOT Solutions Group
IoT and M2M technologies are changing how businesses operate. Organizations that have started using IoT solutions are benefitting in many areas. Companies that haven’t are scrambling to keep up. Verizon Wireless through their IoT Solutions Team can assist companies in exploring available IoT options.
Contact: Rick Hufnagel, IoT Vertical Account Manager
richard.hufnagel@verizonwireless.com; 412-360-9500  

*Denotes Previous Shale Gas Innovation Contest Winner

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