Mr. Powers has over 30 years of experience working in engineering consulting and with various OEM equipment manufacturers serving the Power and Industrial market sectors. Mr. Powers focus includes project management, design and process engineering for client's water/wastewater treatment systems, and balance of plant systems including cooling water systems, pumping systems and compressed air systems. His technical focus includes process engineering and calculations, process flow diagrams, mass balances, P&ID development, detailed design engineering, equipment sizing and selection, piping specifications, equipment specifications, and hydraulic analysis. Mr. Powers has experience with a variety of Power and Industrial balance of plant systems involving water and wastewater treatment including physical-chemical, membrane treatment such as ultrafiltration, microfiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis, ion exchange processes, media filtration including multimedia filtration, greensand, and carbon filters, oil/water separators, flue gas desulfurization treatment, pH neutralization systems, chemical storage, cooling tower chemistry and boiler chemistry. Mr. Powers has extensive experience in pressure hydraulic flow modeling and design of all types of pumping systems having successfully sized and selected thousands of pumps and fluid flow related systems.

Vivek Pulikkal is a wastewater treatment engineer specializing in the process design of industrial water and wastewater treatment systems. At CEC, he has contributed to treatment plant projects for aluminum rolling mills, iron mills, landfills, and pharmaceutical facilities. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Environmental Engineering. His doctoral research focused on the destructive treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) through electrochemical mineralization. Vivek is also an experienced PFAS analytical specialist with expertise in LC‑MS/MS, adsorbable organic fluorine (AOF), total oxidizable precursor (TOP) assay, extractable organic fluorine (EOF), and total organic fluorine analysis. During his time at UNC Charlotte, he helped validate an analytical method for measuring AOF in drinking water.