Nauman Islam is the Oil & Gas Team Leader for GE Energy’s Control Solutions business. He holds a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from McMaster University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 13 years experience in turbomachinery control in upstream, midstream and downstream applications. He has held various roles in Asia Pacific, Middle East and USA. He has authored several technical papers in leading industry publications and has been a conference speaker in a number of Oil & Gas conferences. Mr. Islam also holds a patent and is active in API 612...Read more

NED LEONARD As Vice President of Program Services and working out of the Office of the President & CEO, Ned Leonard supports the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity's senior management in the areas of State Affairs, Federal Affairs and Policy, Communications, and association Operations. His primary focus is on clean coal technologies, including those involved in carbon dioxide capture, storage, transportation, and beneficial use. Ned currently assists the Sr. VP for State Affairs in management of three-state campaign organized to persuade the Obama EPA to extend the deadline...Read more

Nitin Talreja is a 1999 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Mr. Talreja started his career as a Process Safety Consultant at Berwanger, Inc. (now Siemens) in the Relief Systems and Design Division. His experience includes pressure relief system design and verification, conceptual and detailed process design, and extensive process simulation. He has a solid understanding of relief device sizing and installation codes, including ASME and API. Mr. Talreja has served as a Project Manager for the Relief Systems Group, Account Manager in the...Read more

Oct, 2009—Present. PhD student in University of Twente. Research project: Membrane Reactors for Combustion of Fossil Fuels with Integrated CO2 Capture Sep,2006—Jul, 2009. M.S. majored in Materials Science in University of Science and Technology of China Sep,2002—Jul, 2006. B.S. majored in Materials Physics in University of Science and Technology of ChinaRead more

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Associate · Jun 2010 to present · Richland, Washington * Membrane Air Dehumidifier with Wei Lu Starting in Nov 2011 High-Efficiency, on-Line Membrane Air Dehumidifier Enabling Sensible Cooling for Warm and Humid Climates * High Surface Area Inorganic Membrane for Process Water Remove with Wei Lu Oct 2010 to present Project aims to demonstrate fabrication and performance advantages of mini-channel planar membrane modules made of porous metallic supports of surface area packing density about 3 to 10 times higher than the...Read more

Parag is the Refinery Technical Lead for Dorf Ketal Chemicals with a decade of experience in the field. Over the years he has been helping refineries with process improvements and de-bottlenecking exercises successfully. Parag has an active interest in evaluating operating risks due to newer feedstocks in a given refinery with an impact assessment tool that stretches across the refinery. He has pioneered in developing mitigation plans for such problems and has a very rich experience in understanding the underlying chemistries and possible solutions for such mechanisms. This has resulted in...Read more

Paritosh Sharma is a Chemical Engineering Doctoral student at Louisiana State University.Read more

Pat is the founding principal and president of Stat-Ease, Inc. Before starting his own business, he worked as a chemical engineer, quality assurance manager, and plant manager. Pat co-authored Design-Ease® software, an easy-to-use program for design of two-level and general factorial experiments and Design-Expert® software, an advanced user's program for response surface, mixture, and combined designs. He's provided consulting on the application of design of experiments (DOE) and other statistical methods for several decades. In addition, Pat is co-author of the books, "DOE Simplified:...Read more

Paul F. Schubert, PhD has 26 year years of experience in the petrochemical and natural gas industry. He began his professional career investigating corrosion mechanisms on piping and vessels. Prior to SGS, Schubert held various technical and marketing management positions with Syntroleum Corporation, Monitor Labs, Catalytica, Phillips Petroleum, and Engelhard Corporation. Schubert is the inventor or co-inventor on 16 US Patents. These patents include product and process development for synthetic fuels, polyolefins, sulfur chemicals, dehydrogenation, dimerization, and halogens. Schubert...Read more

Paul Filson is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Renewable Carbon, Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries in University of Tennessee, Knoxville working with Dr. Nicole Labbee. He received his B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from University of Ghana specializing in natural products chemistry with emphasis on isolation, purification and structural elucidation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants. He obtained his Ph.D. in Forest Resource Science with emphasis on Wood Science and Technology from West Virginia University. Currently, his research work...Read more