NEIL CATHIE is the Global Business Development Manager for Kenics static mixing products at NOV. He has worked for over 40 years in the industrial application and design of compact mixers, heat exchangers, reactors, and agitators for a wide range of industries across the globe, and prior to that in process design for the dyestuffs, electroplating, and petrochemical sectors. He has a degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Bradford (U.K.) and a Certificate in Management Studies from the Univ. of Derby (U.K.).
ERIC E. JANZ is the Research and New Product Development Director for the mixing technologies business group at NOV (Email: eric.janz@nov.com). He has over 20 years of experience in applying mixing theory and practice to difficult processes in the chemical industry, and has held various positions in sales, engineering, and research and development groups. He has multiple publications in the field of mixing and currently holds two patents for mixing equipment. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Univ. of Dayton, where he received BChE and MSChE...Read more
KEVIN J. MYERS, PhD, is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the Univ. of Dayton (Email: kmyers1@udayton.edu). He has been teaching chemical engineering for over 30 years, with an emphasis on transport phenomena and reaction engineering. His research has focused on numerous topics in mechanical agitation and static mixers. He earned his BChE from the Univ. of Dayton and his DSc in chemical engineering from Washington Univ. in St. Louis. He is a member of AIChE and the North American Mixing Forum.
Process Intensification: Its time is now; Realize the Potential of Process Intensification; Modularization in Chemical Processing; Employ Static Mixers for Process Intensification; Infographic: Process Intensification – A New Paradigm.
This Faculty Process Safety Workshop, sponsored by Chemours, will show chemical engineering faculty how process safety is put into industrial practice and demonstrate the importance of process safety to the design and operation of a chemical plant.
Dionisios (Dion) G. Vlachos is the Allan and Myra Ferguson Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, the Director of the University of Delaware Energy Institute (UDEI), of the UD node of the manufacturing institute RAPID, and of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). He is the ExxonMobil Visiting Chair Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2018-2021.
He obtained a five-year diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical...Read more
ANTON A. (TONY) KISS, PhD, is a professor and chair of chemical engineering at the Univ. of Manchester. His top research interests include process systems engineering, process intensification, and separation technology. Previously, he held a senior project manager position at AkzoNobel — Research, Development & Innovation, and a part-time professorship at the Univ. of Twente (Netherlands). He holds a PhD from the Univ. of Amsterdam. He received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs, and the AkzoNobel Innovation Excellence Award.Read more
BILL STANLEY formed Ventech Engineers, Inc. in 1967, and oversaw its growth into a global supplier of modular oil refineries until his retirement. He was also a design engineer for Diamond Alkali Co. and Houston Research Institute. He received a BSc in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Texas at Austin. He is an inaugural member of the Texas Academy of Distinguished Chemical Engineers.
The 2017 AIChE Beer Brewing Competition winning team, Team MMAIChE, from the Mid-Michigan Local Section of AIChE presents their brewing processes for their winning brews. Their team won the Grand...
