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Bing Du

Dr. Bing Du has been actively working in the area of fluidization and fluid-particle flow systems for more than 20 years and currently is the Principal Scientist for Process Reactor Development at ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company. He has actively participated in or led the development and scale-up of multiple processes related to fluidized bed reactors or fluid-solid systems. Applications cover Upstream, Downstream and Chemicals in the oil/gas industry, and include FCC/Fluid CokingTM process/hardware improvements, EMTAMTM (Fluid bed Toluene Alkylation with Methanol) process...Read more

Meet Some of FOSSI’s 2023 Class

August 24, 2023
August 31, 2023

Meet these members of the 2023 class who are beginning their college education for STEM careers at Claflin University, Howard University, and North Carolina A&T State University.

2023 CCPS GSPS Japan - Silver - DSS+

U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Refers to Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Monograph on Natural Hazards

August 24, 2023
August 30, 2023

The CCPS monograph aims to promote a better understanding of the impact of natural hazards, including hurricanes and other natural events around the globe, and provides recommended actions.

2023 AIChE PD2M Student Award

Yejoon Seo

Princeton University Advisor: Rodney Priestley

Physical Aging of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Acetate Succinate Spray-Dried Dispersions Using Fast Scanning CalorimetryRead more

Yejoon Seo

Princeton University Advisor: Rodney Priestley

Physical Aging of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Acetate Succinate Spray-Dried Dispersions Using Fast Scanning CalorimetryRead more

2023 Sabic Young Professional Award

Kevin Buettner

Kevin E. Buettner is a lead pilot plant engineer within Process Innovation and Scale-Up at the ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company. He is a chemical engineering alumnus of the University of Oklahoma (2013) and the University of Florida (2018, Ph.D.) where he was a member of Professor Jennifer Sinclair Curtis’ research group focused on model development for CFD simulations of granular flows. After joining ExxonMobil in 2018, he has made significant contributions in the process development and scale-up of “new-to-the-world” process technologies focused on complex fluidization...Read more

Rebecca Lennen

Rebecca has 16 years of industrial biotechnology experience focusing on the development of yeast and bacterial strains for a wide range of chemical products. She currently leads strain development activities at Lygos, with past experience at Zymergen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (Technical University of Denmark). She has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked on microbial fatty acid production. Rebecca's experience and interests span metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, adaptive...Read more

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