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Delmar R. Morrison, III, Ph.D., P.E., CCPSC, FAIChE, CFEI

Dr. Delmar “Trey” Morrison is a chemical engineer and U.S. licensed professional engineer with over 20 years’ experience in analyzing and investigating chemical and manufacturing processes in domestic and international settings. He was recently elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a distinctive recognition of his career contributions to the field of chemical engineering. Most of his work has been focused on analysis of equipment, systems, and processes...Read more

Murray R. Gray

Dr. Murray Gray focuses his research on upgrading of heavy oil and oil sands bitumen as Director of the Centre for Oil Sands Innovation at the University of Alberta. His research contributions have been recognized by numerous awards and prizes, including the Industrial Practice Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. A Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, he holds a Canada Research Chair and an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Oil Sands Upgrading. Gray obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.Read more

Osman Aboul-Nasr

Dr. Osman Aboul-Nasr is a Technical Director and Senior Fellow at the Chemical Technology Center of Fluor, working with clients in Russia, China, the Middle East and Europe. He has over forty years’ experience in academic and industrial research; and process and project development and management. His present interests include technology transfer; licensing; and process economics and technical evaluation of petrochemical projects. He has developed software for the economic evaluation of petrochemical complexes, technology selection, and life cycle cost. Osman has over 40 publications,...Read more

John J. Peterson

Dr. Peterson received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University. John is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Quality Technology, and has published extensively on response surface methodology and its role in process optimization. John is a Director in the Research Statistics Unit at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. He has over 20 years experience consulting for various preclinical discovery and development research groups at GlaxoSmithKline (and its former companies). John’s current research involves using...Read more

Philip A. Marrone

Dr. Philip A. Marrone is a Senior Research Engineer at SAIC. He has extensive experience in the field of supercritical fluids and their applications in oxidation, gasification, and synthesis reactions. More recently, he has become interested in biofuel production via several methods ranging from fermentation to thermochemical-based processes, as well as in the use of supercritical fluids for converting biomass to biofuels. Dr. Marrone received his B.S. degree from Columbia University and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, all in chemical engineering.Read more

Prafulla Dinkarrao Patil

Dr. Prafulla Patil is Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Chemical Engineering Department at New Mexico State University, USA. He received his M. Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2006 and Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 2010. Dr. Patil is currently working on US Department of Energy (DOE-NAABB) and US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Algal Biofuel projects. Dr. Patil has published 10 peer reviewed journal papers and applied 2 patents on algal biodiesel conversion technologies.Read more

Qiang Xu

Dr. Qiang Xu is Professor of Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University. His main research areas include process synthesis, product scheduling, dynamic simulation and optimization with particular applications in pollution prevention and waste minimization, energy saving, process safety, flexibility analysis, and air quality analysis for oil and gas/chemical/petrochemical industries.

Dr. Xu has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and given over 200 invited talks and international conference presentations. He is the recipient of Lamar University Merit...Read more

Rebecca L. Stiles

Dr. Rebecca Stiles is a senior chemist in the Air Protection Technologies Center of Innovation at Nalco Company in Naperville, IL. She has been working at Nalco since August 2008. Rebecca earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Union College (Schenectady, NY) in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with Prof. Royce W. Murray in 2007. Prior to joining Nalco, Rebecca was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University with Prof. Richard P. Van Duyne. Her work at Nalco has been focused on mitigating pollution from coal-fired power...Read more

Sang Yup Lee

Dr. Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently the Dean of KAIST Institutes, Director of BioProcess Engineering Research Center, and Director of Bioinformatics Research Center. He served as a Founding Dean of College of Life Science and Bioengineering. He has published more than 630 journal papers, 82 books/book chapters, and more than 680 patents, many of which licensed. He received numerous awards, including the National Order of Merit, National Science...Read more

Philip P. Schonewill

Dr. Schonewill is a research scientist in the Radiochemical Science and Engineering Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). During his three years at PNNL, Dr. Schonewill has primarily investigated several nuclear waste treatment and transportation technologies via experimentation (both bench-scale and pilot-scale) and numerical modeling. Previously, Dr. Schonewill received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame studying transport phenomena in the presence of oscillatory flows and working with direct methanol fuel cells.Read more

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