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Mohammad Abutayeh

Mohammad Abutayeh is originally from Kafr Sur, Palestine: a small West Bank village approximately thirty miles north of Jerusalem. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida and is a Florida-registered professional engineer. He wrote a thesis on predicting the citrate soluble–loss of the dihydrate process as well as a dissertation on simulating a novel passive vacuum solar flash desalination process. He worked in several engineering areas designing process control systems, optimizing unit operations, customizing process equipment, employing renewable energy...Read more

Ravi Ramaswamy

Mr Ramasamy Ravi is a B.Tech(Chemical engineering) graduate of 1980 batch from Madras University and M.S (Engineering Management) from BITS, Pilani,India. He is presently serving as Vice President (PSM) at Reliance Industries Limited. He served in various capacities in operation of Ammonia / Urea plants, Process Engineering and Project Management at M/s SPIC. He joined RIL , Hazira in 1996 and worked in pre-commissioning, commissioning and operation of Aromatics unit. He completed MDP from IIM Bangalore and was assigned Planning & Coordination function in Executive Director's office....Read more

Ronald G. Hallmark

Mr. Hallmark presently is a Senior Consultant with Det Norske Veritas (DNV)in Katy, Texas. Mr. Hallmark has over 35 years experience in HSE Risk Management working for BP PLC and Shell on 4 continents. He has successfully led poorly HSE performing assets from the bottom to top quartile. Mr. Hallmartk is a graduate Petroleum Engineer from the University of Alabama and a Certified safety Professional (CSP).Read more

Russell Heinen

Mr. Heinen is Vice President and has 30 years of experience in energy and chemical consulting. As Vice President he is currently responsible for a number of SRIC’s multi-client programs including the: • Process Economics Program (PEP) which provides detailed technoeconomic analysis of the process technologies used in both the chemical and refining industries • Green House Gas Program (GHG) which publishes estimates of the greenhouse gas emission related to the production of refined products and chemicals • Single Client Consulting Practice which utilizes the information contained in SRIC’s...Read more

Chad Patschke

Mr. Patschke is a senior risk/reliability engineer at ABS Consulting with more than 15 years of experience in maintenance, mechanical integrity, process safety management, and risk analysis. He has been involved in various engineering assignments involving operations, maintenance, process safety, and project management, holding positions of plant manager, operations manager, production superintendent, engineering manager, and materials engineer. He has experience in a variety of industries with processes involving highly hazardous chemicals, including refining, petrochemical, specialty...Read more

Dennis Taylor

Mr. Taylor holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Houston. He is a Board Certified Fire Protection Specialist and has served on five API committees, and currently serves on two NFPA committees, 15 and 750. He has written and presented over 15 technical papers and has been published in the Journal of Hazard Materials. He is the Technical Director, Process Safety/Fire Protection, for WorleyParsons in Houston, Texas....Read more

Emmanuel D. Revellame

Name: Emmanuel D. Revellame Current Position: Graduate Research Assistant Institution: Mississippi State University Department: Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Expected Graduation: December 2011Read more

Dr. Ernesto Angueira

Name: Ernesto J. Angueira Job Title: Research Engineer/Technical Service Engineer Company: CRI Kataleuna Work location: Westhollow Technology Center, Houston, TX Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering from University of Puerto rico, Mayaguez and M.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of TechnologyRead more

Nikolaus Schwaiger

Nikolaus Schwaiger is a doctoral student doing his Ph.D. studies at the Graz University of Technology at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology. His work is sponsored by BDI-BioDiesel International AG. He has also studied at the Université de Rennes in Rennes, France as part of an ERASMUS stay. He has a degree from the Technical University Graz in Technical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In 2009 he completed a diploma thesis for BDI-BioDiesel International. Other work experience includes Sappi Austria, Gratkorn, where he was production operator. He was...Read more

Omar Naeem

Omar Naeem, born in Pakistan in 1980, is a Chemical Process Engineer by profession. He achieved a degree in Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. To achieve further insight to the chemical processes, he traveled to Germany. He attained a MSc. Process Engineering degree from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany in December 2005. He moved to Delft Center for Systems & Control, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands to do the research in the field of process...Read more

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