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Craig Acuff

Craig Acuff has 23 years of experience in the refining and process industries. He has been involved with implementing refinery systems for achieving business process improvements, project management on refinery scheduling and yield accounting systems and customer requirements analysis with extensive experience in process improvement transitions. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Grace Petroleum, Aspentech, and Valero. He has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Oklahoma State University and a Master's specializing in Computer Science from the University of Central Oklahoma.Read more

William Faulkner

Current Manufacturing Systems Engineering graduate student emphasizing in supply chain modeling, optimization, and simulation in the renewable energy and manufacturing sectors. Past experience consists of process and project roles in conventional downstream refining, as well as domestic and international undergraduate research in novel energy applications.Read more

David M. Lavenson

Current PhD student at UC Davis in chemical engineering working with Profs. Robert Powell and Michael McCarthy. B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University (2008) and an M.S. in chemical engineering from UC Davis (2010). Research interests include: rheology, transport phenomena, reaction kinetics, reactor design, biofuels (specifically lignocellulosic fuels), and biotechnology related to non-fossil fuels.Read more

Linas Mockus

Currently Dr. Mockus is a Senior Research Scientist at Purdue University where he leads diverse research projects on the application of Quality by Design (QbD) principles to product and process development and scale up; modeling of pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics data using Bayesian techniques. Previously Dr. Mockus was employed at Allergan where he was managing validation projects; and by Pharmacia/Monsanto where he was leading simulation/modeling and business system development. In 1996, Dr. Mockus graduated from Purdue University with a PhD in Chemical Engineering. In 1991, he...Read more

Curt Hertler

Curt Hertler is currently a Business Development Manager for the Oil and Gas Industry within OSIsoft. Prior to this role, he established and managed OSIsoft’s Developers Network. Curt has 19 years in the petroleum refining industry working for Marathon Oil and British Petroleum. While at BP, he served five years on the National Petroleum Refiners Association Computer Applications Committee. He graduated with a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.Read more

Daniel A. Long

Dan Long has had extensive chemical manufacturing experience focusing on mechanical integrity programs for fixed equipment. This includes reliability studies, in-service inspection programs for vessels, tanks, piping and boilers; process safety programs, in-service equipment and new construction inspection, fitness for service evaluations, welding quality control programs, due diligence evaluations for acquisitions, arbitration and negotiations with suppliers and contractors, cost reduction programs, work design and downsizing programs. Certifications •Texas P.E. License # 62299 •API-510...Read more

Daniel Resasco

Daniel E. Resasco is a Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He holds the D. Bourne endowed Chair. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1983. He is author of more than 190 publications and 30 industrial patents in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis and carbon nanotubes. He has been a Presidential Professor, S. Wilson Professor, and in the last few years he was awarded the Oklahoma Chemist of the Year award by the American Chemical Society, the Yale Science and Engineering Association award, and the Regents Award for Superior...Read more

Darrell Velegol

Darrell Velegol attended West Virginia University for his BS in Chemical Engineering, and he earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 working with Professors John L. Anderson and Stephen Garoff. In 1998 Velegol won the American Chemical Society's LaMer Award for the best PhD in Colloid & Surface Science. He continued with a post-doc with Professor Fred Lanni of the CMU Biology Department. In June 1999 Velegol joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State. Velegol won an NSF CAREER Award in 2000, and has continued to be funded by NSF,...Read more

Darron Granger

Darron Granger, PE is the Sr Vice President Engineering and Construction for Cheniere LNG. Inc. He has more than 42 years of cryogenic engineering in project management and process design. His experience emphasis is on Owner’s Engineer, Project Management, HAZOP analysis, hydrocarbon processing, LNG, LPG, refrigeration and cryogenic system designs and their start-ups. This background includes natural gas process design, hydrocarbon pipelines, cryogenic refrigeration systems, LNG/ LPG terminal design, LNG peakshaving plant design, utility plant and distribution systems, gas compressor...Read more

David Morton

David gained his PhD in chemistry from Bristol University. From 1990, he worked at AEA Technology, initially studying nuclear accident aerosol behaviour, then developing new techniques for generating aerosol-based advanced materials. In 1997, David joined Bath University to manage industry-funded inhaler development programmes. In 1999, this group became the drug delivery company Vectura, where David was Head of Pulmonary Research, and was responsible for devising the PowderHale formulation technologies. David was co-chair of the annual “Drug Delivery to the Lung” international conference...Read more

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