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Doherty Selected to Present 2020 AIChE Prausnitz Institute Lecture

August 20, 2020
Michael F. Doherty, the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named the John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer for 2020. His lecture, entitled Innovation at...

3rd Solar Energy Systems Conference

August 4, 2021 to August 6, 2021
VIRTUAL
AIChE invites representatives from academia, industry, and policy making and government organizations to participate. The conference will provide a forum for the exposure and exchange of ideas, methods and results in solar energy science, engineering and engagement. To apply for financial support,...

Keith Ribe

Keith Ribe currently serves as the project engineer for the Exxon­Mobil Open Process Automation program, where his responsibilities include project management and coordination of the internal ExxonMobil OPA R&D activities. He joined ExxonMobil in 2011 as a technical software engineer and worked on various proprietary geoscience and engineering software development projects in both the upstream and downstream sectors before joining the OPA program. He holds a BS in computer science from the Univ. of Texas at Austin and is based at the ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, TX....Read more

Don Bartusiak

Don Bartusiak, PhD, is Chief Engineer, Process Control for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He has 33 years of experience with ExxonMobil, where he has worked on artificial intelligence, linear and nonlinear model predictive control, and real-time optimization in central engineering and manufacturing. Since the mid-1990s, he held supervisory or senior technical positions with responsibility for instrumentation, process analyzers, control systems, and control applications. Bartusiak received a BS from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and MS and PhD degrees from Lehigh Univ....Read more

Steve Bitar

Steve Bitar is an automation advisor at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He has worked in refining, supply, and research, and has held a variety of engineering and management positions in a wide range of disciplines, including process control, real-time optimization, instrumentation, project development, process analytics, electrical, offline optimization and scheduling, process engineering, laboratory services, refinery coordination, and control systems. In his current role, Bitar is supporting a program to develop open systems to replace aging and obsolete distributed control system...Read more

David DeBari

David DeBari is an innovator and process control engineer with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He has many years of automation experience in both continuous and batch processes and has been part of more than 20 projects that installed or replaced control systems. His areas of experience include instrumentation, analyzers, and various process control systems. DeBari is one of the original members of ExxonMobil’s Open Process Automation Program team and is the lead engineer working on the development of proofs-of-concept, prototypes, and the standard of standards related to the open...Read more

Bradley Houk

Bradley Houk is a senior engineering advisor with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in the refining and chemical industries. Most of his career has been focused on control and optimization. Since October 2017, Houk has been the program manager for ExxonMobil’s Open Process Automation R&D program, which is leading the development of an open process control architecture. Previously, he led the global rollout of a new modeling and optimization platform and applications used for feedstock selection and production planning at ExxonMobil’s...Read more

Jack Brouwer

Through Dr. Brouwer’s leadership, NFCRC and APEP are focusing research, education, beta testing, and outreach on high-efficiency, environmentally preferred energy conversion and power generation technology advancement with fuel cell and gas turbine systems as the principal targets.  Current research projects address ultra-high efficiency and ultra-low emissions high temperature fuel cell systems, integrated hybrid fuel cell gas turbine systems, renewable power intermittency and integration, battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle evaluation and infrastructure development...Read more

Visual Dust Hazard Analysis - Understanding Threats and Assuring Controls

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 19, 2020
The potential harm and asset damage from a dust explosion have been known for many centuries. A wide variety of materials that can be explosive in...

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