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Heather Emady

Dr. Heather Emady joined Arizona State University as an assistant professor in Chemical Engineering in January 2015, and has since established a growing research program in particulate process and product design.  Her current research efforts include particle wettability, granule formation, bulk particle flowability, granular heat transfer in rotary drums, and discrete element method simulations.  Dr. Emady has won prestigious early career grants including the Bisgrove Scholar Award from Science Foundation Arizona and the...Read more

Christine Hrenya

Christine Hrenya is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds chemical engineering degrees from The Ohio State University (B.S. 1991) and Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. 1996).  

Her interests lie in the field of multiphase and solids flows, using a combination of theory, simulation, and experiments.  Recent emphases of the research program include multiphase flow instabilities, cohesive particles, and gas-solid heat transfer. 

Prof. Hrenya currently leads a $3.5M U.S. Department of Energy grant targeted...Read more

Carl Wassgren

Carl Wassgren is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy (by courtesy) at Purdue University.  Prof. Wassgren’s research has focused on developing models and experiments for predicting the dynamics of particulate systems.  He has worked on a wide range of projects such as coating, blending, hopper flow, segregation, wet granulation, powder compaction, and attrition.  He also teaches several powder-related courses at Purdue, including particulate systems and powder characterization.  He has received...Read more

Shaun Pan

Shaun Pan joined BASF in 2010. As the Technology Specialist, he is responsible for the developments and commercialization of FCC catalyst technologies, as well as providing technical service to refiners. He also has experience in the marketing and product launches of FCC additives. Shaun holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.Read more

Jean Beeckman

Jean Beeckman is a Distinguished Scientific Associate at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company and is located in Annandale, NJ.

Jean obtained his PhD on “Catalyst Deactivation” in 1979 at Ghent University in Belgium under the guidance of Prof. G. F. Froment

Thereafter he joined Esso Antwerp Refinery; worked over a decade at W. R. Grace and is currently employed at the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company in Annandale N.J. Jean has resided in the U.S. since 1981.

Jean has over 20 technical publications and over 30 patents in the areas of...Read more

Gary Liu, P.E.

Gary Liu is a consultant in DuPont Engineering – Particle Technology Group.  He joined DuPont in 2003 after completing a PhD in gas-solids processing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  Earlier, he completed a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has been granted 4 US patents and has over 30 publications.  Gary is an internationally recognized solids handling specialist and has extensive experience in dry solids processing operations....Read more

Benjamin Amblard

Benjamin AMBLARD has been working as an engineer at the French research center IFP New Energies for three years on topics related to fluidization. He has been running both experimental and CFD studies on Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) and Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC).
From 2009 to 2011, Benjamin AMBLARD worked for the French process licensor Axens IFP Group Technologies where he designed FCC units.
From 2007 to 2008, Benjamin AMBLARD worked for the French refiner Total as a research engineer on fluidization topics in North America with one year at PSRI and one year at...Read more

Mojtaba Ghadiri

Mojtaba Ghadiri is the Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Particle Science and Engineering (IPSE), the University of Leeds, with research activities on (i) cohesive powder flow and mechanics of particle-fluid systems, (ii) mechanical breakdown of particulate solids, encompassing attrition and comminution; (iii) electrical effects in bulk particulate systems; (iv) coating, caking and segregation; and (v) granulation of powders.Read more

Jean Carlson

Reddy Karri

S.B. Reddy Karri is a Technical Director of Particulate Solid Research, Inc., an engineering industrial consortium of 33 member companies from Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe.  He is an expert in the area of fluid-particle systems such as fluid beds, cyclones, diplegs, standpipes and risers.  He extensively consults and trouble shoots the industrial problems in the energy filed.   He lead numerous cold flow projects relating to fluid-catalytic cracking, methanol-to-olefins, gas-to-liquids, catalytic coal gasification and others.   He also developed several...Read more

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