Don Abrahamson has over 40 years of experience in operations and engineering roles to draw from process safety management, operations management, process safety engineering, technical management, quality assurance management, process development and research. He recently retired from Celanese as the Global Process Safety Manager. He also worked for Occidental Chemical for over 32 years. He has conducted PHAs, Audits, Incident Investigations and /or Training on three continents: Americas, Europe and Asia. He has four US Patents from his work in research and...Read more
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
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
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
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.
W. Roy Penney, Ph. D. - worked for more than 25 years with leading industrial companies such as Phillips Petroleum, Monsanto, AE Staley Co., and Henkel Corp. The author of more than 40 technical publications and the creator of numerous computerized mixing equipment design programs, he is currently professor of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas. ...Read more
Robert Salvin is a chemical engineer with over 40 years of experience in the chemical industry. He has been associated 35 of those years with LyondellBasell and its predecessor companies, Lyondell and ARCO Chemical. Throughout his career, Salvin has focused primarily on corporate development with responsibility for economic evaluation guidelines and methodology for the company worldwide. He has an MBA in finance with degrees from Drexel University and is the instructor of AIChE’s eLearning course “Economic Evaluation for Chemical Engineers” as well as several...Read more
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