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February 2012

Delmar Morrison

Dr. Morrison’s practice areas encompass both product and process safety pertaining to the control of hazardous energy sources such as fires, explosions, and chemical releases. He specializes in both field and laboratory investigations of origin, cause, and engineering issues related to hazardous chemicals accidents, fires, explosions, and chemical technology. Dr. Morrison’s expertise includes chemical engineering, fire dynamics, process hazard analyses, and the system safety of products and processes.Read more

Dr. Jason E. Schaff

Dr. Schaff has worked for the last twelve years as a forensic toxicologist with the Chemistry Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory. There he analyzes a wide variety of specimens submitted by various federal, state, and local agencies supporting investigations of product tampering, drug-facilitated sexual assaults, public corruption, suspicious deaths of U.S. citizens overseas, and various other crimes.

Dr. Schaff received a B.S. in chemistry in 1991 from Yale University and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1997 from the University of Minnesota. After completing...Read more

Alan L. Boeckmann

Alan L. Boeckmann is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fluor Corporation, one of the world's leading and largest engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services companies. Prior to assuming his current position in February 2002, Boeckmann served as president and chief operating officer of Fluor since January 2001. He has served as president and chief executive officer of Fluor Daniel, the engineering and construction unit of Fluor Corporation, and president of Fluor Daniel's Energy & Chemicals group, Fluor Daniel’s Chemicals...Read more

Steven Ludmerer

Steven Ludmerer has a 35 year career building, growing, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of specialty chemical, advanced material, and consumer products businesses. For two decades at DuPont and Union Carbide, he launched such well-known products as Teflon® finishes for cookware, Reach® toothbrush, and Tychem® and Barricade ® protective apparel fabrics.  After leaving the big chemical company world, Mr. Ludmerer led three technology-based entrepreneurial ventures: an immunoassay diagnostics company, an instrument company, and an electronic materials company.  Steve...Read more

Monique Hitchings

Monique Hitchings has been with Hart Energy Publishing since January 2000. Prior to joining FUEL full time in January 2008 and beginning newsletter management in 2009, she was the magazine's editor as well as corporate director of custom publishing. She previously was a newspaper reporter in Texas. Monique holds a bachelor's degree in journalism with honors and a bachelor's degree in English from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.Read more

Bob Brickner

Robert Brickner, GBB Executive Vice President, has more than 38 years of experience in the solid waste management field. He is an expert in solid waste handling systems, including collection and processing equipment, especially equipment costs and systems analysis. Mr. Brickner is well versed in cost allocation methods and economic/financial modeling, and life-cycle costing. Mr. Brickner has served as the lead evaluator for GBB on many system-wide evaluations and vendor solicitations, and as lead negotiator on numerous projects that have been financed. He has authored independent reports...Read more

Nancy White

Nancy White is the general manager of the water services product lines, chemical & monitoring solutions – water & process technologies for GE Power & Water.  In this role, she is responsible for leading the cooling, boiler, wastewater, fuels & combustion and membrane chemical product line strategy globally.

She joined GE (as Betz Dearborn) in 1987 in a commercial sales role.  Nancy continued in commercial positions of increasing responsibility for the next 15 years.  Beginning in 2002, Nancy expanded her overall contributions to GE by becoming...Read more

Professor Ronald W. Rousseau

Ronald W. Rousseau holds the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Endowed Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as chair of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Dr. Rousseau is co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Wiley 1978, 1986, 2000), a text used internationally and by more than 80% of the chemical engineering programs in the United States; he also is editor of the Handbook of Separation Process Technology (Wiley, 1987).  His research has explored numerous areas related to separation processes...Read more

Concepción 'Conchita' Jiménez-González

Concepción 'Conchita' Jiménez-González is Director and Team Leader of Operational Sustainability at the Sustainability and Environment department of GlaxoSmithKline, where she is responsible for the development and deployment of global strategy and programs to integrate Sustainability into the GSK operations and product development. Read more

Kenny Anderson

Kenny Anderson is a nuclear engineer currently working at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station near Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As a member of the Extended Power Uprate team he is focused primarily on reviewing and performing safety analysis calculations.  Kenny is interested in all aspects of numerical modeling, particularly including coupled multi-physics, uncertainty quantification, benchmarking, and optimization.

Prior to Grand Gulf, Kenny worked for General Electric Hitachi in several safety analysis, methodology development, and computer programming roles.  In 2008 he...Read more

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