Mr. Heinen is Vice President and has 30 years of experience in energy and chemical consulting. As Vice President he is currently responsible for a number of SRIC’s multi-client programs including the: • Process Economics Program (PEP) which provides detailed technoeconomic analysis of the process technologies used in both the chemical and refining industries • Green House Gas Program (GHG) which publishes estimates of the greenhouse gas emission related to the production of refined products and chemicals • Single Client Consulting Practice which utilizes the information contained in SRIC’s...Read more

Mr. Patschke is a senior risk/reliability engineer at ABS Consulting with more than 15 years of experience in maintenance, mechanical integrity, process safety management, and risk analysis. He has been involved in various engineering assignments involving operations, maintenance, process safety, and project management, holding positions of plant manager, operations manager, production superintendent, engineering manager, and materials engineer. He has experience in a variety of industries with processes involving highly hazardous chemicals, including refining, petrochemical, specialty...Read more

Mr. Taylor holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Houston. He is a Board Certified Fire Protection Specialist and has served on five API committees, and currently serves on two NFPA committees, 15 and 750. He has written and presented over 15 technical papers and has been published in the Journal of Hazard Materials. He is the Technical Director, Process Safety/Fire Protection, for WorleyParsons in Houston, Texas....Read more

Name: Emmanuel D. Revellame Current Position: Graduate Research Assistant Institution: Mississippi State University Department: Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Expected Graduation: December 2011Read more

Name: Ernesto J. Angueira Job Title: Research Engineer/Technical Service Engineer Company: CRI Kataleuna Work location: Westhollow Technology Center, Houston, TX Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering from University of Puerto rico, Mayaguez and M.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of TechnologyRead more

Nikolaus Schwaiger is a doctoral student doing his Ph.D. studies at the Graz University of Technology at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology. His work is sponsored by BDI-BioDiesel International AG. He has also studied at the Université de Rennes in Rennes, France as part of an ERASMUS stay. He has a degree from the Technical University Graz in Technical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In 2009 he completed a diploma thesis for BDI-BioDiesel International. Other work experience includes Sappi Austria, Gratkorn, where he was production operator. He was...Read more

Omar Naeem, born in Pakistan in 1980, is a Chemical Process Engineer by profession. He achieved a degree in Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. To achieve further insight to the chemical processes, he traveled to Germany. He attained a MSc. Process Engineering degree from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany in December 2005. He moved to Delft Center for Systems & Control, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands to do the research in the field of process...Read more

Paul Lambert has a degree in Chemistry from Newcastle University in the UK and a PhD from the department of Chemical Engineering at the South Bank University in London UK. He is a fellow of the RSC, a chartered chemist & scientist and a companion member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. He has over 32 years experience in industry working in R&D, scale up, production but mostly in safety, health and environment. Currently he is head of Environment, Safety and Health for the Health and Nutrition business unit of Evonik Industries. His special interests are in technical safety...Read more

Pinakin Mistry, a professional engineer, working with Lyondell Chemical since June 2003. He is Consulting Materials Engineer with Mechanical & Discipline Engineering. He has 25+ years of experience with world wide petro chemical and oil & gas industry. Pinakin is certified ISO 9000 Lead Auditor, ASNT NDT Level III (UT), API 510 and 653 Inspector. His area of expertise is high temperature alloys, welding metallurgy, material selection, corrosion engineering, failure analysis, inspection, NDT, and cathodic protection. He presented 3 papers with AIChE EPC conference in last few years...Read more

Preeti Gangadharan is a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student at Lamar University, Texas. Her research interests include process simulation and sustainability-based design of complex chemical/energy systems.Read more