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Robert D'Alessandro

Robert D’Alessandro has over 35 years of experience in chemical engineering as department manager, project manager, process engineer, and technology specialist. This experience includes process development, process improvement, process troubleshooting, process debottlenecking, process hazard analyses, process design during the conceptual, basic, and detailed engineering phases of capital projects, and process plant startups. Employments include large and small CPI corporations in operating companies, process technology companies and engineering & construction companies.

He...Read more

William Ciolek

William Ciolek is a Principal Design Engineer with UOP, a Honeywell company, where he is the lead specialist for pressure relief worldwide. For 30 years he has consulted on the gamut of pressure relief problems and related process safety elements. Bill has trained hundreds of engineers at UOP and Amoco Corporation on pressure relief design.

He served as chairman of the DIERS Users Group subcommittee on incidents and case histories, and is a current member of the API Subcommittee on Pressure Relieving Systems.

A graduate of Michigan State University, he specializes in...Read more

Theodore Nelson

Dr. Theodore Nelson is focused on performing pressure relief and flare system (PRFS) evaluations for clients in the petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. He has proven experience with conducting incident investigations and a demonstrated record of addressing safety solutions. Dr. Nelson also has extensive experience in safety technologies, safety testing, process technology, Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) methodology, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) guidelines, process safety management (PSM), hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies,...Read more

Benjamin McDavid

Benjamin McDavid is a Process Safety Engineer with Ashland Inc. He has 20 years of experience that includes process safety, process engineering design and operations and has worked for Engineering and Construction as well as operating companies. He has been performing pressure relief design using DIERS technology since 1997. He has been active with the DIERS Users Group since 2000. He is a professional engineer in the state of West Virginia. ...Read more

Frank Renshaw

Frank Renshaw is a certified process safety professional, certified safety professional, and certified industrial hygienist.  He is currently serving as an EHS consultant with Bayberry EHS Consulting LLC after 35 years with Dow Advanced Materials (formerly the Rohm and Haas Company).

He held various positions at Rohm and Haas including: EHS Director for Specialty Materials, Corporate Safety Director and Corporate Industrial Hygiene Director. He chaired the company’s Code of Safe Manufacturing Practice Committee, coordinated a business-wide initiative on closed system...Read more

Wayne Genck

Dr. Genck is president of Genck International, a consulting firm specializing in crystallization and precipitation. He has consulted with over 300 companies on a wide range of issues, including troubleshooting, design, scale-up, caking, polymorphism, downstream processing, the impact of additives and impurities plus microscopic examination of solids. Both batch and continuous processing has been addressed for inorganic and organic substances. Dr. Genck has written chapters on crystallization for three industry handbooks as well as numerous articles published in chemical...Read more

Walter Frank

Walt Frank is President of Frank Risk Solutions, Inc. and is a Fellow of both the AIChE and the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).  He received his BSChE from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1973 and has worked in the process industries in various capacities for over 45 years, beginning as a lab technician for Pfizer while working his way through college. After graduation, he joined DuPont where, over 14 years, he held positions in plant technical support, manufacturing supervision, R&D, project design, and project start-up.  He subsequently moved to...Read more

Ellen Lenz

Ellen Lenz has over 40 years of experience in the chemical industry working in plant operations, process safety and operational excellence, process development and commercialization, and project management at Lyondellbasell Industries and BASF Corporation.

Ellen is a certified process safety professional and has expertise facilitating PHA and risk assessments, developing corporate process safety standards, transferring and applying process safety information across organizations, scaleup, and EH&S...Read more

Robert Rosen

Bob is currently a Staff Consultant and Instructor for CCPS. Bob has over 15 years in chemical production management, five years in project and process engineering management and 20 years in the safety, health and environment area.  From 1997 through 2003, he was the Director of Emergency Response and Issue Management for BASF Corporation in Mount Olive, NJ.   Since 2003, Bob has done Occupational Safety, Process Safety and Emergency Response consulting. Prior to 1997, Bob worked for Merck, Polaroid, Story Chemical, and Polysar.

Bob received a B.Ch.E in 1966...Read more

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