Kenneth Bloch is a Process Safety Supervisor for the renewable energy industry in the San Francisco Bay Area of California (Email: processreliability@gmail.com). His range of experience spans nearly 40 years of service in maintenance, reliability, process safety, technical, and operations positions. He is the author of Rethinking Bhopal: A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters (Elsevier, 2016) and speaks about current industrial safety and regulatory topics at American Fuel and Petrochemical...Read more
ANTHONY FIELDS is a retired Master Technician from Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions with more than 38 years of experience in the industry. His primary area of expertise is the development of antifoulant solutions for the hydrocarbon processing industry. He is the recipient of the company-wide Innovation Award for developing solutions for tight oil processing, a coauthor on three conference/peer-reviewed articles and an inventor on three patents.Read more
DELBERT GROTEWOLD, P.E., is a renewable fuels subject matter expert in the fuel production industry with Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions in Boulder, CO. He has held roles in research, process engineering, operations management, technical marketing, strategic product development, and commercial operations. His areas of expertise are in refinery process design, unit operations troubleshooting, membrane separation technologies, heavy and tight oil processing, advanced modeling, statistical process control, data management, and water reuse. Grotewold holds five patents in the...Read more
XIOMARA PRICE is the Global Product Manager for Fouling Control at Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions. She has more than 25 years of industry related experience. Her areas of specialization include process chemical applications, refinery process troubleshooting, program and project management, heat transfer, and fouling control. Price holds a BS in chemical engineering from Louisiana Tech Univ. She has coauthored four patents.Read more
HITESH BAGARIA, PhD, is an Advanced R&D Manager for Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions based in Tomball, TX. He has 12 years of experience in developing solutions for the hydrocarbon processing industry with a focus on corrosion, H2S scavengers, flow assurance, antifoulants, phase separation, and fuel additives. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Alabama with postdoctoral experience from Rice Univ. and the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Bagaria has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and is an inventor on over ten patents.Read more
BRYAN CROM serves as an Advanced Lead Researcher at Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions, based at the Tomball Technology Center in Tomball, TX. Since joining the company’s Energy & Chemicals Technology Laboratory in 2010, he has primarily focused on fouling and deposition control for refining and petrochemical applications. Currently, Crom leads product development and application testing efforts for Veolia’s petrochemical process treatment applications. He holds a BS in chemistry from Sam Houston State Univ. in Huntsville, TX. His work has resulted in four U.S. patents, with...Read more
ANNAPURNA SRI SOWMYA TURUGA, PhD, is a Lead Researcher at Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions in Tomball, TX, specializing in fouling control solutions for the hydrocarbon processing industry. She holds a PhD and an MSc in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Alberta, Canada, and a BEng (Hons.) in chemical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India. Her career includes roles as a research executive at Unilever R&D and a chemical engineering intern at Shell R&D. Sowmya has been recognized with the Petro-Canada Graduate Research Award by Suncor...Read more
