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W. Roy Penney

W. Roy Penney, Ph. D. - worked for more than 25 years with leading industrial companies such as Phillips Petroleum, Monsanto, AE Staley Co., and Henkel Corp. The author of more than 40 technical publications and the creator of numerous computerized mixing equipment design programs, he is currently professor of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas.
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AIChE Election Candidates Answer: What is your best memory of being a Young Engineer?

August 21, 2012
August 21, 2012

Learn which memories candidates most value in this installment in the series where share from their experience as young engineers.

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9th CCPS-China Section Process Safety Training

September 11, 2012

Chemical Process Safety-China Section (AIChE-CCPS) and the Environment and Safety Technology Center of China University of Petroleum (Huadong)（CUP-ESTC）invite you to attend the 9th CCPS-China Section Process Safety Training. The theme of the course is Managing and Leading Chemical Process Safety.

Martin Rhodes

Martin Rhodes holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in particle technology from Bradford University in the UK, industrial experience in chemical and combustion engineering and many years experience as an academic at Bradford and Monash Universities. He has research interests in various aspects of gas fluidization and particle technology, areas in which he has many refereed publications in journals and international conference proceedings. Martin has served on the editorial boards of Powder Technology and KONA and on the advisory board of Advanced Powder Technology....Read more

Erdem Ural

Erdem Ural is a well-known combustible dust expert with over 25 years of experience working on research, litigation, insurance, protection, testing and regulatory aspects of combustible dust problems. He has published numerous papers on the subject and is author of the Explosion Prevention and Protection chapter of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Handbook of Fire Protection.Read more

Dale Gyure

Dale Gyure brings to this course over 25 years of experience in the chemical and biotechnology industries. He has an extensive background in the development of chemical and biochemical process technology and commercialization and the manufacture of chemical and biochemical-entity products. He has taught chemical engineering courses for over 10 years. Dr. Gyure is division head for manufacturing at National Bioproducts Institute in Durban, South Africa.Read more

John P. Farone

John P. Farone is a consultant to the chemical industry with over 40 years of experience in process separations, process simulation and equipment design. He has unique knowledge of the practical design and operation of trayed and packed distillation towers and their internals.

Previously, he was with The Dow Chemical Company for 36 years where he specialized in process engineering in distillation and stripping.

He is currently a consultant with Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI), and the Separations Research Program (SRP) at the University of Texas in Austin.Read more

Jim Conner

Jim Conner joined CCPS as a Staff Consultant in 2011. He has 35 years of experience in chemical process engineering, chemical manufacturing operations, and R&D across operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North America. Most recently Jim held the position of Sr. Vice President, Operations for Enerkem, and a solid waste-to-chemicals startup venture. Prior to Enerkem, he served as Vice President, Operations and Technology for Celanese, with responsibility for domestic and international operations and R&D facilities. He also was accountable for the design and startup of a world...Read more

Don Abrahamson

Don Abrahamson has over 40 years of experience in operations and engineering roles to draw from process safety management, operations management, process safety engineering, technical
management, quality assurance management, process development and research. He recently retired from Celanese as the Global Process Safety Manager. He also worked for Occidental  Chemical for over 32 years. He has conducted PHAs, Audits, Incident Investigations and /or Training on three continents: Americas, Europe and Asia. He has four US Patents from his work in research and...Read more

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