Richard Turton has a total of 36 years of experience in the chemical process industry and academia. His areas of expertise and emphasis are process design and process design education. He is the lead author of two textbooks, "Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes" (5th edition) and "Chemical Process Equipment Design", both books are published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson). He has extensive experience in the process systems engineering area and routinely teaches courses in the design and simulation areas.