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Steve Cutchen

Steven Cutchen , Investigator – Mr. Cutchen joined the CSB in 2011. He has over thirty-three years of experience in the chemical industry in process, process safety and process control engineering. Over the last ten years, he has specialized in incident investigation, risk analysis and safety instrumented systems. In addition to technical roles, he held various management positions ranging from technical supervision to world-wide technology management. Mr. Cutchen served as one of two instructors for globally implementing advanced incident investigation techniques specializing in the...Read more

Michael Pring

Mike Pring is a senior environmental engineer with Eastern Research Group with more than 21 years of experience in the air quality consulting field. Mr. Pring has extensive experience in emissions inventory development and regulatory analysis for the oil and gas sector for federal, state, and local air quality agencies.  He is currently supporting the US EPA in development of a National Oil and Gas Area Source Emissions Estimation tool and in Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule, and has worked with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on several...Read more

Benjamin Saydah

After 15 years with BP Oil, Ben Saydah joined Sapphire Energy in 2011 where he is the Director of Algae Conversion and Oil Upgrading.   At Sapphire Energy he is leading the effort to scale up Sapphire’s proprietary algae to bio-crude oil conversion process and the operation of Sapphire’s demonstration scale algae conversion unit in New Mexico.

Ben holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University and a MBA from the University of Notre Dame....Read more

Phillip E. Savage

Phillip E. Savage is Professor of Chemical Engineering and holds the Walter L. Robb Family Chair as Department Head at Penn State. He is also Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. His lab has advanced the frontiers of chemical reaction engineering through experimental and modeling research on reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanisms for a variety of reaction systems. In addition to impactful accounts of original research, his lab has published a well-received tutorial on mechanisms and kinetics for hydrocarbon pyrolysis, a perspective on catalysis in...Read more

Constance Senior

Dr. Senior is currently the Director of Technology Development at ADA Environmental Solutions, where she is responsible for research and development in control of emissions of mercury and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants and other industrial combustion systems. Dr. Senior has worked on understanding and predicting the behavior of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants for over fifteen years and has more than ten years’ experience with demonstrations of full-scale mercury emissions control. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in the behavior of ash, glasses,...Read more

Richard Noble

Professor Rich Noble is the Alfred T and Betty E Professor of Chemical Engineering and Co-Director of the NSF Membrane Applied Science and Technology (MAST) Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He is an internationally recognized leader in the use of novel membrane and thin-film materials, including zeolites, ionic liquids and liquid crystal materials for chemical separations. 

He has received several awards including the CU Inventor of the Year Award (2008), the AIChE Institute Excellence in Industrial Gas Technology Award (2010), the AIChE Separations...Read more

Thomas Spicer

Tom Spicer is a professor and the Maurice Barker 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 served as department head from 2001 to 2012. Tom’s primary research interests are in the assessment of hazards from airborne contaminants, particularly those that are...Read more

James Turner

James Turner is Executive Director, Process Technology & Engineering, in Fluor’s Sugar Land Office. 

He has more than 25 years of experience in process design for a wide range of projects in the refining and gas processing industry, in domestic and international locations, and managed the Process Technology & Engineering Department for the Fluor Houston Office for several years.

He has published many technical articles about process design and project execution, and has a patent for a combined hydrotreater process design.  In 2006, he was a...Read more

Erin Chan

Richard Nemec

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