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Kara R. Byrne

Kara Byrne is the Global GE Oil & Gas Applications Engineer and Commercial Manager for the Turboexpander Product Line. During her time at GE she has worked in the Inquiry-to-Order Team on Turboexpanders, Centrifugal Compressors, and Oil Free Screw products. Prior to GE, she was a Design Engineer and Lean-Six Sigma Black Belt in the power generation / propulsion diesel engine industry at Fairbanks Morse Engine. Kara earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Read more

Karen Study

Karen Study is Director of Personal Safety and Industrial Hygiene Expertise at The Dow Chemical Company. She has an extensive process safety background with special expertise in Quantitative Risk Assessment and dispersion modeling.

Karen holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and is a licensed
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Ken Phillips

Ken Phillips is the Sales and Marketing Manager of Adams Valves, Inc. He is responsible for sales, training, marketing and channel management for North America. In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in Engineering Technology specializing in Mechanical and Fluid Systems. Since 1989 he has specialized in the application, sales and marketing of triple eccentric metal seated valves. He has participated on API committees for butterfly valve design standards and fire safe design standards.Read more

Lance Lobban

Lance Lobban is the Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor of chemical engineering and, since 1998, director of the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He also holds the Francis W. Winn Chair in Chemical Engineering. His areas of expertise are chemical reaction engineering and catalysis, and he has directed research programs related to biomass conversion to biofuels, catalytic and plasma conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels and chemicals, photocatalytic oxidation, and modeling of solid oxide fuel cells. He holds three...Read more

Leonidas Bleris

Leonidas Bleris is an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Departments of the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining UTD, Bleris was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University. Bleris earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Bleris was awarded the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship from the National Academy of Science (NAS), and served with...Read more

Leslie J. May

Leslie May, Ph.D., accumulated over twenty years' experience in technical management of petrochemical and basic materials, leading, facilitating, and sustaining organization transformation. Her R&D and Six Sigma background includes intellectual property portfolio analysis and licensing, and management. Earned a PhD in Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington.Read more

Krishna Reddy Gunugunuri

M.S(Chemistry)2004, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry)2008 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Research Associate (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,USA) 2009 - Present Visiting Research Fellow (IRCE, Lyon, France) 09/2007 - 02/2008 Published 25 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals like Journal of Catalysis, Journal of Materials Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Membrane Science, Applied Catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Catalysis Letters. Presented many research papers at...Read more

Konanur Manjunath

Manjunath Konanur is a Sr. Process Engineering Associate and an Expertise Area ldr. for Solids Processing at Dow Chemical Co. (APB/1407, Freeport, Tx 77541. Phone: 979-238-1501; Fax: 979-238-0688; E-mail: KManjunath@dow.com). Previous to joining Dow, he worked in Norway, with CMR/POSTEC and Norsk Hydro as a principal scientist and group leader for solids processing. He received B.E.(Hons.) from the University of Mysore (India) in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Solids Processing from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has about 24 years...Read more

Carl G. Matherne

Mechanical engineer in industry for over 10 years. Working in positions of fixed and rotating equipment relibility, turnaround support and implementation, capital projects, and mechanical integrity. I have been with BASF for 3 years.Read more

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