2023 Technical Courses

Karina Anaya is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Management program at the University of Alberta. She holds a bachelor's in chemical engineering, and an MSc. in petroleum engineering in Colombia and Brazil, respectively. Her MSc. research was developed in an experimental project financed by Repsol Sinopec Brazil, studying the production of waxy crude oil at offshore conditions. Currently, she is working on the decarbonization of the industrial sector, integrating CO2 capture, storage, and utilization within the supply change of the energy industry. She was part of the team led by Dr. Amit Kumar to assess hydrogen opportunities in Alberta's Economy. This research was the foundation for Alberta's Hydrogen Roadmap released by the Government of Alberta on November 5, 2021. Her work within this research was related to hydrogen production technologies. She evaluated the hydrogen production pathways' techno-economics and GHG emissions performances with and without carbon capture and sequestration. Currently, she works on the CO2 utilization pathways as an alternative to sequestration and/or storage after CO2 capture.