Experience

Energy & Environmental Research Center

• United States
• Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Director, Integrated CCS & Alternative Energy

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Ms. Leroux is currently working toward regional H2 Hub development, including integrated production, transportation, end use, and geologic storage research, as well as continuing carbon capture and storage (CCS) evaluation and implementation activities.

• Principal Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2022

  Ms. Leroux leads teams of scientists and engineers integrating CCS systems with fossil and renewable energy, such as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), coal-generated electricity, and ethanol fuel production. Ms. Leroux’s principal areas of interest and expertise continue to include fossil, alternative, and renewable energy and chemicals production systems.

• Senior Chemical Engineer, Oilfield Operations Team Lead

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2018

  Additional areas of interest and expertise include CO2 storage monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) methods. Specific technical support has included assessment of CO2 capture technologies and transportation; implementing and evaluating near-surface and downhole MVA concepts for large-scale (>1 million tons/year) carbon storage; and techno-economic evaluation of CCS applicability for state and federal CO2-reduction incentive programs.

• Research Engineer

  • May 2001 - Jun 2015

  Ms. Leroux's areas of interest and expertise include resource and life cycle assessments; process design and pilot/demonstration/commercial-scale testing; statistical interpretation, data processing, and modeling; and technical feasibility, economic analysis, and market evaluation. Her work at the EERC has involved research in natural gas, refined petroleum (gasoline, diesel, propane), biomass (wood, agricultural residues, grasses/straws), combustion, gasification, syngas cleanup (tars… Show more Ms. Leroux's areas of interest and expertise include resource and life cycle assessments; process design and pilot/demonstration/commercial-scale testing; statistical interpretation, data processing, and modeling; and technical feasibility, economic analysis, and market evaluation. Her work at the EERC has involved research in natural gas, refined petroleum (gasoline, diesel, propane), biomass (wood, agricultural residues, grasses/straws), combustion, gasification, syngas cleanup (tars, membrane separation), catalysis (steam methane reforming, water–gas shift, Fischer‒Tropsch), cogeneration/combined heat and power, electrolysis, energy storage, wind hybrid systems, pyrolysis, biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, ammonia, biogas and landfill gas, and densification (pellets, torrefaction). Additionally, Ms. Leroux has provided technical support for management of solid waste (municipal and inert recycling and reduction) and water (drinking/wastewater treatment, processing [e.g., cooling systems], flood mitigation).