Each year, the Ammonia Symposium allows over 400 professionals concerned with safety and reliability issues in the nitrogen and gas reforming industries to share recent developments.
AIChE and the AIChE Saudi Arabia Local Section (SAS) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and partner on common goals that strengthen chemical engineering knowledge and support societal needs in the Middle East.
Chairperson Vanessa Allen Sutherland of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board sat down with Shakeel Kadri, executive director of the Center of Chemical Process Safety, to discuss process safety and the Board's work. She also shares her thoughts for students entering the field of chemical engineering.
Rick Isherwood of UOP was the OutReach Program chair for the AICHE Spring Meeting. Here, he discusses the program and its work with Kristine Chin, who serves as AIChE's director of conferences and is also involved in the OutReach Program.
Sanjeev Kapur of Apex PetroConsultants interviews Ron Corn, senior vice president of Projects & Supply Chain for Chevron Phillips Chemical. Ron discusses "mega projects" which are those that represent expenditures of $1 billion or more, and in particular, he talks about the management of these large projects and using technology to build efficiency, not work against it. He also shares advice for young chemical engineers.
Andreas Kramvis, vice chairman of Honeywell, sat down after his keynote address to speak with Shariq Yosufzai, vice president at Chevron. In this video, he discusses successful business transformation, his business philosophy, and offers advice to young leaders in the chemical engineering world.
Bill Hauhe, retired general manager at Chevron, delivered Tuesday morning's keynote at the 2016 Spring Meeting in Houston. His talk was titled "Commercial Aspects of the LNG Value Chain." He sat down with Bill Rooney to discuss some of the points of his talk.
Dr. Franklin (Lynn) Orr, undersecretary for science and energy (U.S. DOE) on the 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review, interviewed by the 2016 AIChE president-elect, Bond Calloway. Bond is an Associate Laboratory Director at Savannah River National Laboratory.
Chemical Engineer Deb Grubbe had an opportunity to chat with CEP senior editor Michelle Bryner about how Big Data could be used to improve safety in the chemical process industry (CPI), in turn improving the health of the industry by reducing incidents and downtime, and making companies more profitable. Using Big Data tools to analyze volumes of process data, laboratory data, data related to structures, or electrical systems can provide engineers a much deeper understanding of their processes, which they can then use to prevent problems before they happen.
