Alan Hugo, PhD, has a BASc from Univ. of Calgary, an MASc from Waterloo Univ., and a PhD from McMaster Univ., all in chemical engineering, and is employed as an automation engineer at Corteva Agriscience. He has 20 years of experience as a control engineer at Valero and ExxonMobil where he worked on advanced process control and soft-sensor applications. In addition, he has several patents in the areas of alarm analysis and controller performance assessment. His interests are in computer process control, alarm management, and inferential measurements.Read more
Danny Bottenus, PhD, is currently working as a Chemical Engineer III in the Process Intensification team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Email: danny.bottenus@pnnl.gov). He received his BE and PhD in chemical engineering from Washington State Univ. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of separations, including electrophoresis and distillation. His recent projects have dealt with mass/heat transfer, fluid flow, distillation, PID control loops, and computer-aided design software.Read more
Mike Powell joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 1990 as a development engineer working on projects related to fluid mechanics, mixing, nuclear waste simulants, and microfabricated heat exchangers and reactors. In 1999, left PNNL to work for MesoSystems Technology before returning to PNNL in 2005 as a member of the Microtechnology team and now leads the Process Intensification team. His work has included design and testing of compact heat exchangers, reactors, and combustors as well as numerical modeling of heat and mass transfer within micro-channel devices. He has BS...Read more
James Ely, PhD, is a nuclear physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researching new radiation detectors for a wide variety of applications including monitoring for treaty verification. He received a PhD from the Univ. of Colorado and has been at PNNL since 2002.Read more
John Barclay, PhD, is a chief scientist/physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He has more than 40 years of technical, academic, and business experience developing efficient, renewable, and sustainable energy systems. Barclay joined PNNL in 2019 to help demonstrate lab-scale active magnetic regenerative liquefiers and to help scale up the technology with commercial partners toward industrial use, especially related to transportation applications using liquid H2 to store, transport, and deliver as a vehicular fuel. He has more than 35 patents and 200 technical...Read more
Paul Humble, PhD, has been a staff chemical engineer in the Hydrocarbon Processing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) since 2005 (Email: paul.humble@pnnl.gov). His work has focused on process intensification, microchannel enhanced heat and mass transfer, adsorption-based separation processes, chromatography, distillation, and chemical reactor simulation and design. He holds a BS in applied physics and a PhD in chemical engineering from Brigham Young Univ.Read more
