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Stephen Rabb, P.E

Stephen Rabb, P.E., is a Process Director in Fluor’s Houston office. He has 18 years of process design experience at Fluor in refining, petrochemical, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and petrochemical areas. He currently works on energy transition and carbon abatement projects on multiple North American capital projects. He has served as process lead and engineering manager on construction projects for petrochemical facilities. He is active in AIChE and has previously published in CEP. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. Rabb has a bachelor’s degree in chemical...Read more

Tony Chan

Tony Chan is a Mechanical Group Director and technical lead in fired equipment in Fluor’s Houston office, and one of the subject matter experts (SMEs) in fired equipment supporting all Fluor offices worldwide. He obtained his master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Tulsa (TU). He also has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from National Taiwan Univ. (NTU). He started his career in the energy and chemical industry in 1988. Since 2013, he has been serving as a member of the American Petroleum Institute (API). He has been in engineering, management, and SME...Read more

James Turner

James Turner is an Executive Process Director in Fluor’s Houston office. He has more than 35 years of experience in process design for a wide range of projects in the refining, chemical, and gas processing industry, in both domestic and international locations. He has served in many roles in process engineering, project management, and engineering management. He is currently working on a major international oil-to-chemicals program. He has published and presented many technical articles on process design, project execution, energy transition, and decarbonization, and holds patents for a...Read more

Rich Gottwald



Rich Gottwald has served as the President & CEO of the Compressed Gas Association since 2018. The Compressed Gas Association is dedicated to developing and promoting safety standards and safe practices in the industrial, medical and food gases industry. More recently CGA has focused its efforts on hydrogen as it has moved from a chemical process component to an energy carrier with the potential to upend society’s reliance on carbon-based fuels. Before joining CGA, Rich held senior management positions in several trade associations in the chemicals and plastics sectors. He...Read more

Critical Minerals - Holding the Green Transition Hostage

February 27, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024,
8:00pm to 9:00pm
CDT
Holding Green Transition Join this meeting to learn about the critical minerals that holds the green transition ZOOM MEETING primary meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ofu-qpjwoH9I1kxQwE6qJUeCyJ0Vg-OS9 alternate 1: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/...Read more

Meet Some of FOSSI’s 2023 Class

February 27, 2024
February 28, 2024

Meet these FOSSI scholars who will be attending Howard University, North Carolina A&T, and Spelman College this fall, thanks to FOSSI’s STEM scholarships.

Decoding Digital Shifts: Energy Transition's Impact on Technology

At this moment, perhaps hundreds of miles from you or maybe just down the road, a municipal water facility team leader participates in a discussion with her team considering the pros and cons of innovations to their process. They are influenced — just as you and I are  — by the global transition to renewable energy sources. They have been challenged by top leadership to find ways to evolve their legacy systems into data-driven, reliable, and eco-friendly production processes and products. No small task.

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STS AIChE March 7th 2024 Monthly Dinner Meeting

February 26, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024,
4:00pm to 8:30pm
CST
Please join the South Texas Section for our monthly workshop and dinner meeting at Silver Sicamore, 5111 Pine Ave, Pasadena, TX 77503 ( map ). The dinner meeting follows the TIEEP Water Forum - see event page for registration details. 4:00PM - 6:00PM TIEEP Water Forum 6:00PM - 6:30PM Networking 6:...Read more

Kinjal Joshi



Kinjal joined Dow Personal Care in 2010.  In her role, she has helped advance various technical and market opportunities for personal care business. She has been with company for twelve years.  Her responsibility includes new sustainable technology innovation, creating new intellectual property, and providing technical leadership for formulation and testing capabilities to meet customer and market needs. Her recent championship with external partner for starch platform to meet the market need with performance as a result launched MaizeCare™ Polymer product line....Read more

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