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Daniel Summers

Daniel R. Summers is currently a Distillation Consultant. He formerly was the Tray Technology Manager for Sulzer Chemtech USA, Inc.  He was a 1977 graduate in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.  His entire career has been focused on the development, design, operation, and troubleshooting of all forms of distillation tower internals.  These internals would be applied in the hydrocarbon, specialty chemical, refining, fuel ethanol, air separation, and natural gas industries. He is the author of over 70...Read more

Brian Nowak

Brian Nowak has a bachelor’s of science degree in chemical engineering from Michigan State University.  He has been working for UOP-Tonawanda Process Equipment since graduating in 1997. Brian’s expertise is the design and troubleshooting of the UOP distillation tray portfolio, primarily MD/ECMD trays.  He has been involved with the development and commercialization of the SimulFlow device along with a number of his talented coworkers at UOP....Read more

Lowell Pless

Lowell Pless is Tracerco’s Business Development Manager for Distillation Applications in Pasadena, Texas.  Lowell has been applying radioisotope techniques in process troubleshooting for 25+ years.  He previously held positions in Europe and North/South America as Operations Manager.  Lowell’s earlier engineering development came as a Process and Systems Engineer and Unit Operations Supervisor for Celanese Chemical Company, Calumet Lubricants, and Foxboro.  He earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, is a registered...Read more

Anil Mehta

Anil is currently a Sr. Res. Scientist in Dow Chemical, leading process improvement and problem-solving in Dow’s amines, chelants and glycol ether plants.  He has over 30 years of experience and a proven track record in all phases of process R&D, design, engineering and commercialization of new technologies, leading multifunctional multi-geography teams, commercial scale problem-solving and delivering results. 

Anil has done process development work for a wide variety of products such as epoxy resins, phenol/Acetone, propylene oxide, butylene oxide, hypochlorous...Read more

Elizabeth Bennett

Elizabeth Bennett is a Process Improvement Engineer at Lubrizol’s Deer Park specialty chemical production facility. In her 10-plus years of industry experience she has held the role of process lead for multiple $30MM+ capital projects. She began her career at WorleyParsons where she gained E&C experience in gasification, offshore, chemical, and polymer projects....Read more

Gregor Wehinger

Gregor Wehinger is a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Berlin. His research interests are in applying modeling for chemical engineering and catalysis problems. He is performing Computational fluid dynamic simulations of fixed bed reactors including complex reactions within the Cluster Of Excellence UniCat (www.unicat.tu-berlin.de). He is particularly working on Optimised reactor concepts for the coupling of OCM and DRM based on spatially resolved simulations.Read more

Thomas Eppinger

Thomas Eppinger obtained his Diploma degree in Chemical and Process Engineering from Technical University of Berlin. After working for almost three years as technical support engineer at CD-adapco he return to Technical University of Berlin for a PhD at the chair of Chemical & Process Engineering of Prof. Kraume. His doctoral work was on the spatially resolved simulation of fixed bed reactors for the oxidative coupling of methane. Since May 2013, Thomas Eppinger joint CD-adapco again as a technical specialist for reaction engineering in Nurnberg, Germany.Read more

Ravindra Aglave

Ravindra Aglave obtained is masters in chemical engineering from University of Mumbai and his doctorate from University of Heidelberg in Germany. His doctoral work was on turbulence chemistry interactions and detail chemical kinetics. After working for BASF in Germany, he is directing the chemical industry sector at CD-adapco. His prior work experience includes R & D positions at Callidus technologies Inc. in Tulsa and Bechtel Inc. in Houston. He has been involved in applying computational fluid dynamics for design, scale-up and troubleshooting throughout his career....Read more

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Brueprint Brewing Company Tour & Social

September 6, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015, 6:00pm EDT
Please join us for a tour and social at Brueprint Brewing Company in Apex on Wednesday, September 16th starting at 6 PM. This is a great chance to network, get a brewery tour led by engineers, and partake in your favorite beverage. Please see the announcement below for details. RSVP to:...Read more

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