Katherine Dombrowski, P.E.
Principal Technical Staff
Experience
Principal Technical Staff, Trimeric Corporation, 2018 – Present
Department Manager for Technology Development, AECOM, 2015 – 2018
Project Manager, Project Engineer, Team Leader, URS Corporation, 2001 – 2015
Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC, 1999 – 2000
Co-Op Engineer, Intel Corporation, 1997 – 1998
Intern Engineer, Dow Chemical, 1996
Fields of Experience
Katherine Dombrowski is a chemical engineer and project manager with over 20 years of
experience. She evaluates technical and economic feasibility of new technologies and novel
process configurations, with a focus on CO2 capture and CO2 processing technologies. She
works with technology developers to scale-up processes, including process design (conceptual
to FEED), safety reviews, fabrication oversight, and commissioning and operational support. She
has performed air pollution control technology evaluations at over forty different power plants.
Katherine has managed or assistant managed ten DOE-NETL funded cooperative agreements.
She has presented over fifty technical papers at national conferences, and she has been a
primary contributing author to over twenty technical reports through EPRI and DOE/NETL.
Katherine is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Ms. Dombrowski has a passion for organizational management and development. She has created successful and enduring programs in the areas of knowledge transfer, innovation, and client outreach.
Some of Ms. Dombrowski’s areas of technical expertise include:
- Air pollution controls: mercury, CO2, SO3, other acid gases
- Halogen injection, activated carbon injection, alkaline sorbent injection
- Sulfuric acid mist formation, measurement, and control
- Balance of plant effects of bromine as a mercury control technology
- Balance of plant effects of sorbent injection on particulate control devices
- Multi-metals (mercury, selenium, arsenic) formation, measurement, control
- Waste heat recovery and use technologies
- Beneficial remediation and use of coal-derived fly ash
- Multi-media (air, water, solids) sampling programs
- Technology development and demonstration at lab, pilot and full-scale
- EPA gas-phase measurement methods and data quality evaluation
- Laboratory analytical method evaluation and data quality evaluation
- Corrosion evaluation studies – laboratory simulations and field measurements
- Knowledge management and knowledge transfer best practices
- Innovation and ideation best practices
Professional Registrations and Affiliations
Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas
Education
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Certificate in International Development, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2001
