Unique conversations
Jim McNelis is Manager R&D, and Tony Kosari is Industrial Testing Manager, at GTI Energy.
GTI Energy embraces a vision for integrated, low-carbon, low-cost energy systems that leverage gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency to meet the urgent challenges presented by climate change and global energy access. To fully comprehend these words, there is nothing like a visit to its eighteen acres of facilities close to Chicago, to take in the depth and breadth of what goes on at these specialized labs with equipment for design, testing, and analysis of advanced energy technologies. PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick and Editor-In-Chief Lori Burkhart were fortunate to pass inside the gates of GTI Energy to view the future of energy. We engaged with scientists and engineers to better understand several of their projects.
Blue Lab Green Lab, Jim McNelis
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What will we see here?
Jim McNelis: Our safety testing is focused on developing smarter systems for detecting gas leaks to save lives and reduce emissions. We are collaborating with manufacturers to develop smarter systems that have a sensor, which could be mounted in the home to identify a gas leak and can communicate back to the utility company to alert them of the issue.
GTI Energy helped develop and perfect this technology and now Con Ed in New York currently has two hundred thousand of these installed.