Areas of Expertise
• Heat Transfer
• Distillation & Extraction
• Reactive & Non-reactive scrubbing systems
• Heat Exchanger Design & Troubleshooting
• Thermodynamics
• Simultaneous Heat & Mass Transfer Analysis
• Process Troubleshooting
DuPont Background
• 35 years experience- 27 yrs in current position
• 1981-1983 -Belle - Methylamines & Amides -Process Engineer
• 1983-1985- Troy Lab- Automotive...Read more
As Director of Technology Relations & Innovation at ICM, Inc., Dr. Doug Rivers has 40 years of experience in the bioprocess industry and leads ICM’s efforts to develop innovative technology and transition it to sustainable commercial operations capable of producing feed, fuel, and chemicals from both grain and cellulosic feedstocks. He is responsible for identifying new technologies and collaborative opportunities for development in ICM’s laboratory and pilot plant operations located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Prior to joining ICM, Doug was responsible for a variety of...Read more
Erik received a PhD degree in Chemical & BioProcessing from the Delft University of Technology (TUD) in the Netherlands. He joined DuPont in April 1998 as a Principal Investigator in the CR&D Particle Technology Group. In 2007 Erik started working for DuPont Protection Technologies on the development of nanofiber based membranes. Erik is currently focusing on membrane process development for DuPont’s Biomaterials and Bio Fuel businesses. In that role he performs benchtop and pilot scale testing, and writes basic data packages for scale-up and commercialization. The membrane...Read more
Prof. Aaron Scurto went to the University of Delaware for his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and then to the University of Notre Dame for his PhD with Joan Brennecke on metal chelates in supercritical fluids and ionic liquid separations. He then performed postdoctoral projects at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany on homogeneous catalysis in ionic liquids and supercritical fluids and at MIT with Alex Klibanov in biocatalysis in non-aqueous solvents. He joined the University of Kansas in 2004 in the Dept. of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and a member of the Center for...Read more
Currently employed as a Chief Scientist in the Technology and Innovation group of SABIC Corporation’s Specialties Business. Have also held positions as an Operations Manager and Manufacturing Engineering Leader for other large international corporations. Graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana with degrees in Chemical Engineering and German language translation.
Over thirty-five years in the chemical industry with broad expertise covering plant operations, research and development and all phases of engineering design and plant...Read more
Dr. Vidya Iyer is a Senior Research Investigator in Chemical and Synthetic Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Vidya has been with BMS since 2011 and has extensive experience in late phase drug substance process development and scale-up. Vidya is also a key member of the drug substance risk assessment initiative at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to BMS, Vidya received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Iowa State University and was subsequently a Research Associate at Rutgers University with expertise in the area of metabolic engineering. ...Read more
Prof. Vasquez has been employed at the University of Nevada, Reno, since 1999, in the Department of Chemical and Materials Science Engineering. His research area involves computational modeling and applied thermodynamics to address problems of interest in chemical engineering and material sciences. Other areas of active research include renewable energy and thermophysical property estimation and modeling. Prof. Vasquez has participated in many research projects as co-PI and PI with grants and contracts exceeding more than $2,000,000 from federal agencies such as NSF,...Read more
Prof. Vasquez has been employed at the University of Nevada, Reno, since 1999, in the Department of Chemical and Materials Science Engineering. His research area involves computational modeling and applied thermodynamics to address problems of interest in chemical engineering and material sciences. Other areas of active research include renewable energy and thermophysical property estimation and modeling. Prof. Vasquez has participated in many research projects as co-PI and PI with grants and contracts exceeding more than $2,000,000 from federal agencies such as NSF,...Read more
Workshop Technical Committee Co-Chairs Norman Carnahan, Carnahan Corporation, representative for AIChE Paul Brickhouse, Chevron, representative for SPE Workshop Technical Committee The committee is made up of representatives from both AIChE and SPE. Kenneth E. Arnold, K Arnold Consulting Kelly...
