J Wayne Chastain | AIChE

J Wayne Chastain

Senior Chemical Engineer
Eastman Chemical Co

Professional Biography

Mr. Chastain is an Engineering Associate at the Kingsport, TN site of Eastman Chemical Company. Wayne has worked in various areas of process safety since starting work with Eastman Chemical in 1992. Mr. Chastain’s areas of expertise are in Process Hazards Analysis, risk management, layer of protection analysis, reactive chemical safety, dust hazards, safety instrumented systems and emergency relief.

Mr. Chastain is a senior member of AIChE and has served as the chair of the CCPS subcommittees for Guidelines for Independent Protection Layers and Initiating Events for LOPA and Guidelines for Enabling Conditions and Conditional Modifiers for LOPA, and served on the CCPS subcommittee for Guidelines for Probability of Ignition of Flammable Releases and Guidelines for Developing Quantitative Safety Risk Criteria. He has also served as a peer reviewer of other CCPS texts.  He has presented multiple papers at the annual Global Congress on Process Safety and served as a session co-chair at a GCPS symposium. He has conducted a CCPS webinar on Advances in Layer of Protection Analysis and has been invited to author the new section on Layer of Protection Analysis in the upcoming 9th edition of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. He has also conducted an American Chemistry Council webinar on Reactive Materials. He is the chair for the upcoming Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems Symposium being held at the 2015 Global Congress for Process Safety and will begin serving as a director for AIChE’s Safety and Health Division starting in 2015.

In addition to various areas of process safety, Wayne’s career has included flowsheet development, equipment design, process improvement engineering, and plant start-up. Wayne holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Clemson University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Tennessee.