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Mark Holtzapple

In 1978, Mark Holtzapple received his BS in chemical engineering from Cornell University. In 1981, he received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining his degrees, he served as a captain in the U.S. Army and worked to develop a portable air conditioning system that soldiers could wear to prevent heat stress while wearing chemical protective clothing. In 1986, he became a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests include fuels and chemicals from biomass, feed and food processing, water desalination,...Read more

Venkatesh Balan

In the beginning stages of Venkatesh balan research career, he was working on bio-inorganic chemistry of hemoglobin and bioluminescent properties of luciferases. In the last five year, his research expertise is towards process optimization to convert lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels using Ammonia Fiber Expansion pretreatment techniques, enzyme hydrolysis and ethanol fermentation using different microbes. In addition, he have expertise in economic analysis of mixed integrated farming with energy operations. He have a post-doctoral and research associate experience of over 12 years...Read more

James Venart

J E S Venart, PhD, PEng is Honorary Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has been involved in research on Fire and Explosion phenomena for many years and has conducted research and consulted in these areas for a variety of industrial firms and government organizations.Read more

J. C. Kuo

J.C.Kuo (aka Chen Chuan J Kuo) has 35 years experience in Gas/LNG industry. As senior advisor for Chevron, he has served as the Process Manager for Wheatstone, Gorgon, Delta Caribe, Casotte Landing and Sabine Pass LNG. He has also reviewed Angola, Olokola, Algeria and Shtokman LNG. He was the Technology Manager for IPSI/Bechtel and served as the Process Manager/lead for the Pemex Catarell offshore, the Egyptian LNG, Shell Nan Hai, Venice gas plant de-bottleneck and Tunisia NRU. He has contributed to the technology improvements through a patent, a book, and many papers. He was a member of...Read more

Jakob Burger

Jakob Burger is scientific co-worker and doctorate candidate at the Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics of Prof. Hasse at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Jakob gained a Diploma degree in Process Engineering from Stuttgart University, Germany, in 2009. His primary expertise is process development of Formaldehyde based products such as DMM, Trioxane or Acetal-oligomers used for blending to diesel fuels. His second field of activity is the efficient use of multi-objective optimization for fast process development in the chemical industry.Read more

James Beall

James Beall is a principal process control consultant at Emerson Automation Solutions, where he spends most of his time in customers’ plants implementing process control improvement projects. He has more than 38 years of experience in process control and instrumentation, with expertise in process instrumentation, control valve performance, control strategy analysis and design, advanced regulatory control and loop tuning, and multivariable model predictive control (MPC). He is a contributing author to Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition. Beall has a...Read more

Jared Ciferno

Jared Ciferno is the Technology Manager of the Existing Plants Research Program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. He is responsible for managing more than 40 projects related to advanced carbon dioxide capture technologies and power plant water management technologies for new and existing fossil fuel power plants. His experience encompasses a broad spectrum of technology areas including: fossil fuel electric power generation; advanced gas separation processes; coal conversion processes; engineering model simulation and techno-economic/systems...Read more

Jason E. Bara

Jason E. Bara is the Reichhold-Shumaker Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama. He received degrees in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University (B.S.) and the University of Colorado (Ph.D.). Bara is one of the founders of ION Engineering, where he served as Vice President of Engineering from 2008-2010. His research focuses on process engineering for energy efficient CO2 capture and gas processing technologies utilizing solvents and/or membranes. Additionally, he is active in the areas of new polymers and liquid crystal...Read more

Jeffrey J. Siirola

Jeff Siirola retired in 2011 as a Technology Fellow at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport Tennessee where he had been for more than 39 years. He now holds half time positions as Professor of Engineering Practice at Purdue University and Distinguished Service Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. Siirola received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Utah in 1967 and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. His areas of interest include chemical process synthesis, computer-aided conceptual process...Read more

Jennifer Mize

Jennifer Mize is the group leader for Process Safety Design in Eastman's Global HSES organization. She is focused on process safety including relief design, Process Hazard Analysis, and LOPA.

She earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Auburn University in 1996, is a licensed Professional Engineer in Tennessee, and holds CCPS Certification. She is active with the DIERS Users Group, CCPS, and is serving as a Director of the Safety & Health Division.Read more

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