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Anju Patil Sharma

Anju Patil Sharma is the head of India Operations for DWC Innovations (Email: apatil@dwcinnovations.com). She has 17 years of experience in process design and simulation. Sharma started her career as a process engineer at DSCL in India, where she was actively involved in plant operations and process optimization. Her main areas of interest include distillation, refinery processes, and energy conservation. She is also interested in new refinery technologies for energy optimization, including dividing-wall columns. Sharma has a BS in chemical...Read more

John Nixon

John Nixon is Senior Director at Siemens PLM Software. He is responsible for developing and executing the strategic plan to grow and expand business and shape Siemens PLM Software product development priorities, technologies, and portfolio investments. He has more than 25 years of experience in global strategy, business development, and project management in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Americas, in energy, mining, oil and gas, wastewater, and environmental reclamation. He has been awarded patents for pipeline repair technologies, has served on several boards for energy startups, and co-...Read more

John Lusty

John Lusty is the Global Industry Marketing Manager for the energy and utilities industry sector at Siemens PLM Software. He has over 25 years of industry experience that began in the operation and maintenance of capital facilities before transitioning to the software industry supporting the digitalization of an asset’s lifecycle. He has a BS in earth science from the Univ. of Guelph.

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Jianping Li

Jianping Li is a PhD student in the Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M Univ. He has a BS in chemical engineering and graduated with honors from Dalian Univ. of Technology. His research focuses on systematic process intensification, process integration, and process synthesis.

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M. M. Faruque Hasan

Dr. Faruque Hasan is an Associate Professor and the Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phillip McDivitt ’87 Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in 2005, a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2010, and postdoctoral training at Princeton University before joining Texas A&M University in 2014.

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S. Emre Demirel





S. Emre Demirel is a PhD candidate in the Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M Univ. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees, both in chemical engineering, from Bogazici Univ., Turkey. In 2015, he joined Hasan’s group at Texas A&M Univ., where his PhD research focuses on developing a generic optimization-based method to automatically identify and generate intensified chemical process flowsheets....Read more

Manish Bhargava

Manish Bhargava is the Founder and Director of DWC Innovations (Email: mbhargava@dwcinnovations.com). He has 19 years of experience in process optimization solutions and distillation techniques currently used in refineries and chemical plants. Prior to DWC Innovations, he led the advanced separation group at GTC Technology (Houston, TX), and he worked at KBR as a principal technical professional for six years. Bhargava has played a pivotal role in the technology development and commercialization of dividing-wall columns (DWCs), including...Read more

Ravindra Aglave

Ravindra Aglave, Phd, is the Director for Energy and Process Industries in the STS (Simulation & Test) sub-segment of Siemens (11000 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX 77042; Email: ravindra.aglave@siemens.com), where he is responsible for bringing new modeling and physics knowledge into simulation solutions that can be deployed in industry. He holds a PhD in natural sciences from the Univ. of Heidelberg (Germany), a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Mumbai (India), and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the...Read more

John Sofranko on Building a Chemical Startup

February 26, 2019
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Chemical industry entrepreneur John Sofranko talks about his background, building a business, and about his company's goals and challenges.

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