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Patrick C. Riley

Applications Engineer at Zeeco since April of 2009. Assists in sales of burners for a variety of applications including process heaters and power generation. Also involved with miscellaneous design related projects which help support our sales efforts. Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Kansas State University, December 2008Read more

Arthur Jensen

Art Jensen graduated from the University of Rochester in 1980 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He started his career with Chevron at the Perth Amboy, NJ Refinery. He transferred to the Hawaii Refinery in 1981 and the Philadelphia Refinery in 1988. Art joined Sunoco in 1994 when Sunoco purchased the Philadelphia Refinery from Chevron. Art has provided mechanical reliability and maintenance support at Sunoco refineries in Philadelphia and Marcus Hook PA, Westville, NJ, and Toledo, OH. Art’s 30 years of refining experience has concentrated in the discipline of mechanical reliability,...Read more

Arthur S. Kesten

Arthur S. Kesten has a B.S. from New York University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently President of Nanocap Technologies. He was employed by the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory (1955-1963) and the United Technologies Research Center (1963-1997) where he held several key scientific positions including their Associate Director of Research and Director of Research Programs. In 1997, he was named by the United Technologies Research Center as its Distinguished Engineer of the Year. He taught for many years at Rensselaer Polytechnic...Read more

William Stewart

Bill Stewart holds the position of Technical Account Manager for Rockwell Software, where he has responsibility for chemicals, refining, and polymers. Previously, he has held positions at Shell, M.W. Kellogg and AspenTech. He has 29 years experience with model predictive control, in both application development and sales. Bill holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from LSU.Read more

Blair J. Cox

Blair Cox graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently working on his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Dr. John Ekerdt.Read more

Bruce G. Bunting

BRUCE G. BUNTING Oak Ridge National Laboratory RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2007-present, distinguished scientist, Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN. 2003-2007, senior staff scientist, Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN. 1996-2002, manager / technical advisor, exhaust aftertreatment, Cummins, Inc., Columbus, IN. 1989-1996, staff engineer, products research, Amoco Oil Company (now BP), Naperville, IL. 1987-1989, senior scientist, research, MRC Ball Bearing, SKF...Read more

James J. Lischeske

BS Chemical Engineering from UCDavis in 2009. Worked at Nat'l Renewable Energy Lab from 2010 to now, focusing on kinetics, flow, and transport in high-solids biomass during enzymatic hydrolysis.Read more

Mariana Bahadian Bardy

Chemical engineer, with master degree in Reliability, posgraduation in Safety Engineer, fifteen years of experience in risk management and assessment, including an intensive application of qualitative hazards analysis techniques and quantitative risk analysis for chemicals and petrochemical industries, road and pipelines materials transportation, storage and unloading of dangerous materials on harbor and marine terminals, application of LOPA and SIL methodologies. Large experience as instructor of HAZOP, PHA and LOPA Trainings developed by DNV. Over 100 studies with her coordination and...Read more

Christos Maravelias

Christos Maravelias is the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research interests lie in the general area of process and energy systems engineering. Specifically, his group develops optimization methods for (1) production and supply chain planning, and (2) process and energy systems synthesis and analysis, with emphasis on renewable energy technologies. He has authored a research monograph on Chemical Production Scheduling. Princeton Group website available...Read more

Claire Cagnolatti

Claire L. Cagnolatti is Vice President of Chemicals Studies for Solomon Associates, a world-renowned performance improvement consulting firm located in Dallas. Solomon provides benchmarking services and performance improvement programs to companies in over 70 countries in the refining, chemical, power generation, and pipeline/terminal industries. Ms. Cagnolatti has been with Solomon for over 23 years, after 14 years of hands-on manufacturing experience and four years working in economic optimization at plant and corporate levels in the chemical and petrochemical manufacturing...Read more

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