September 2020

Prof. Dibakar Bhattacharyya (DB) is the University of Kentucky Alumni Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of Center of Membrane Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and North American Membrane Society. DB has forged a successful career over 50 years as a chemical engineering professor and researcher fueled by his serious interest in creating clean water through advanced membranes and other separation technologies. He has been involved in the AIChE Separations Division since the founding days. His 230+ refereed publications (including 36 book...Read more

Anand Vennavelli has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and is a registered P.E. in the state of Texas.

Anand has a combined 10 years of process and control engineering experience. He previously worked as an Advanced Process Control (APC) engineer at the Phillips 66 San Francisco refinery and as a Research Engineer at Fractionation Research, Inc. (FRI). At FRI, he was primarily involved in developing tray and packing correlations and project engineering....Read more

Dr. Tony Cai is the Chief Scientist for Fractionation Research, Inc. (FRI). He received BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University (OSU). He has over 35 years of experience in the areas of mass transfer and separations. Tony is the author of over 85 technical papers and 2 book chapters on distillation and absorption.

Tony joined FRI in 1996 and is a member of the leadership team. He is responsible for research program planning and execution, model & software development, membership...Read more