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Thomas O. Spicer

Tom Spicer is a professor and the Ralph E. Martin Leadership Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. In addition to administrative duties, he teaches courses on chemical process safety and process control. He is a member of the AIChE Safety and Chemical Engineering Education (SACHE) Committee and the AIChE Education and Accreditation Committee. Tom has been a faculty member since 1985 and department head since 2001. Tom’s primary research interests are in the...Read more

Xiaotong Wei

Dr. Wei received his BE from Tsinghua University, China in 2003, MS from University of Cincinnati in 2005, and PhD from Arizona State University in 2008, all in chemical engineering. Dr. Wei is currently working as a Senior Research Engineer at Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. Dr. Wei's reseach interests are membrane processes for separation of gases, including CO2 capture and sequestration, hydrogen recovery and olefin/paraffin separation.Read more

Wei Shi

Dr. Wei Shi is an expert in molecular simulations related with energy and environmental applications. He also develops advanced simulation methods to perform those simulations.Read more

Xinhuai Ye

Dr. Xinhuai Ye is currently a Research Chemical Engineer at Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He accepted his Ph. D in Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in 2003. He has extensive experience in research and development and applications of membrane-based technologies. These include proton-exchange membranes (PEMs) for PEMFCs and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), membranes for H2 separation and CO2 capture, reverse osmosis membrane, and gas separation/purification using membrane, absorption, and adsorption methods. He is the first...Read more

Dwight Hines

Dwight has had over 25 years in olefins plants and technology. He is now Product and Process Tehnical Manager at the BASF olefins plant in Port Arthur, Texas. Dwight is responsible for all process chemistry activities at the site.Read more

Eric D. Vugrin

Eric D. Vugrin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since joining the Infrastructure and Economic Systems Analysis Department in 2008, he has been the project lead for several homeland security projects that aimed to develop rigorous, mathematical methodologies for critical infrastructure analysis. Previously at Sandia, he was the technical lead for Total System Performance Assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's only licensed and operating deep geologic repository for the disposal of transuranic...Read more

Giorgio Greco

Giorgio was born in Naples, Italy. He graduated at University Federico II of Naples with a Master Degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering in 1996. He then entered the Italian Army in the Corps of Engineers as production lieutenant. After his active duty, Giorgio moved to Milan as junior and then senior Process Engineer at Tecnimont a blue chip italian EPC company. After a full time M.B.A. course at the S.D.A. Bocconi in Milan, in 2002 he moved to Dalmine Energie, the energy trading company of the Tenaris Group, as Business Development Manager. In 2004 Giorgio moved to the Strategic...Read more

Suan Shi

Graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering. Now I am 3rd year Ph.D. student working in Dr. Y.Y Lee's group in Auburn University.Read more

Gregory M. Robertson

Gregory Robertson is a graduate student at Louisiana State University.  He is focusing in computer aided process engineering. He uses model simulations and optimization techniques to support efficient business decision making....Read more

H. W. Thomas

Hal Thomas, an Engineering Associate - Process Safety, has been with Air Products for 35 years. He received a BSME from Bucknell University, is a registered professional engineer in the state of PA and is a certified functional safety expert, CFSE. His first ten years were spent in process controls with the balance in process safety & reliability. He is their lead trainer in the use of fault tree and layer of protection analysis and is currently leading their internal effort to improve compliance and understanding of IEC 61511. For the past several years he has also chaired the Center...Read more

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