Daniela Ismail

Daniela is a business development manager at Trillium Energy for the hydrogen and EV business lines. Daniela's background is in mechanical engineering, with an MBA from the University of Houston, with focus on energy. She is currently working on proposals for hydrogen fuel stations for organizations in heavy-duty trucking space, municipalities, ports, airports, etc. Also, she is focused on developing studies for the company strategy on the different transportation zero-emission policies that California has recently announced.

Previously, she worked at KBR as a process engineer on a FEED (front end engineering design) for a project that would produce and liquefy 60 tons of green hydrogen per day, during which she performed different studies on hydrogen systems, such as heat gains on gas hydrogen lines, unloading time of the boil-off gas from the trailers in the plant, quantity of boil-off gas that the system can receive without incorporating an additional tank. Also, she worked on selecting types of valves for gas and liquid hydrogen lines and developing P&IDs and PFDs for the hydrogen interface scope between electrolysis, liquefaction, storage, and unloading.

During her MBA, she had the opportunity to participate as a research fellow for the Center for Houston's Future, where she worked on developing a hydrogen proposal for the Department of Energy (DOE). The fellowship focused on analyzing Houston's technical and economic aspects as a potential Hydrogen Hub, including producing blue and green hydrogen, and transporting, storing, and utilizing hydrogen in different sectors and industries. She also analyzed the optimal location and financial aspects of hydrogen fuel stations in Houston for the heavy-duty truck business. She specifically developed a model to find the optimal hydrogen fuel station locations for heavy-duty truck operations in Houston. The model was developed using a database of hydrogen pipelines, heavy-duty trucks traffic zones, warehouses, intermodal facilities locations, port locations, drayage trucks companies, and chemical plant locations around Houston.

Also, Daniela has engineering experience in the copper mining sector as a field engineer for Hilti Chile and as a mechanical engineer for Bechtel Chile. At Bechtel, she was responsible for designing and developing a water supply network (Domestic Water and Process Water) using EPANET software. She performed studies for future development of the project and generated calculation reports. Also at Bechtel, she was the responsible engineer for sizing and setting specifications for required materials for project implementation, such as horizontal centrifugal pumps, submersible pumps, and agitators for tanks, in addition to managing third party engineering contracts (flocculant in plant lines), where some tasks were to develop the scope of work and design requirements for the vendor to perform the detailed engineering of the scope, ensure vendor-supplied material and equipment complying with specifications and approved vendor list, managed interfaces between vendors and Bechtel/Other engineering scopes, Vendor Print review for compliance against scope of work and submission requirements.