Bhima Sastri
Director, Energy Asset Transitions
USDOE - Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
Biography
Dr. Bhima Sastri is the Director of Energy Asset Transitions in the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently leading an effort across several government agencies to repurpose and transition energy assets to meet administration goals to decarbonize the electric sector and the economy. In addition, he overlooks R&D funding for other technology areas including the Supercritical CO2 programs that manages the 10Mwe Supercritical Transformative Electric Power pilot in San Antonio, TX. Prior to this he was the Division Director, Crosscutting R&D, where he was responsible in developing modular power production technologies with the Coal FIRST (Flexible Innovative Resilient Small and Transformative) program. He has over 30 years of experience in research and development of chemical and energy technologies. Before joining the Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Office, he was a Technology Manager at the Advanced Manufacturing Office at DOE where he managed the Advanced Chemical Separations, Desalination, and Bio-Manufacturing technology portfolios.
He currently serves on the executive board of the RAPID - a Modular Chemical Process Intensification Institute for Clean Energy Manufacturing - and on the Advisory Boards for Chemical Engineering, both at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and Howard University in Washington DC. For over 18 years prior to joining DOE, he worked in pulp and paper industry as a Senior Research Engineer and has held visiting faculty positions at different universities where he taught undergraduate chemical engineering courses.
Dr. Sastri completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from IIT Madras. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.