December 2015

Dr. Santi Kulprathipanja has worked for UOP, A Honeywell Company, since 1978. He is curently a Fellow and has been recognized as a distinguished UOP inventor for being named on over 100 U.S. patents. His list of UOP innovations includes the processes used to make unleaded gasoline and biodegradable detergents, p-xylene separation - Parex(TM), Citric acid separation, the catalytic converter, the inventor of mixed matrix membranes, and the science behind the UOP MX Sorbex (TM) process, the building blocks for modern plastics. He has also been involved with developing technology that removes...Read more

Dr. Reible is the Donovan Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair at Texas Tech University.  Previously he was the Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas in Austin.  He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.   He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Professional Engineer (LA) and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of...Read more