Aaron Sarafinas is the Principal & Mixing Steward at Sarafinas Process & Mixing Consulting LLC. He started his consulting company in 2018 after working for Rohm and Haas / Dow for almost 36 years. Over his career Aaron established himself as an expert in bridging the gap between the R&D lab and commercial production units. He specializes in process development, especially the impact of mixing technology on processes, with decades of industrial experience in both technical and leadership roles. He continues to apply his experience to enable his consulting clients in the chemical...Read more
For more than ten years, Dr. Sang’s research and process expertise in steady-state fluid-particle systems were developed while obtaining his doctoral degrees in Chemical Engineering from University of Western Ontario and in Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering from China Agricultural University. Dr. Sang has since combined his knowledge of modeling and process optimization with practical application while working in scale-up and process engineering at Renix Inc. over the past four years.
At Renix, Dr. Sang has developed components of the patented steady-...Read more
John E. Pace, PE, is the Owner and Principal of Chemical Process Solutions PLLC, specializing in process development and process design services for the chemicals and plastics industries. He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan. He has forty-five years of experience in chemicals and plastics process development, working for Dow-Badische, Borg Warner Chemicals, General Electric Plastics, and SABIC, before retiring in 2014 as a SABIC Research Fellow.Read more
Dr. Brendan Mack is currently a Senior Research Investigator in the Development Engineering group of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Mack received his PhD in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied new drug delivery modalities under Mark E. Davis. Dr. Mack’s current work focuses on small molecule pharmaceutical process development, where his area of focus is using statistical experimental design, data visualization, quantitative data analysis, and predictive modeling to drive rapid decision making....Read more
