Aaron Sarafinas is the Principal & Mixing Steward at Sarafinas Process & Mixing Consulting LLC. He started his consulting company in 2018 after working for Rohm and Haas / Dow for almost 36 years. Over his career Aaron established himself as an expert in bridging the gap between the R&D lab and commercial production units. He specializes in process development, especially the impact of mixing technology on processes, with decades of industrial experience in both technical and leadership roles. He continues to apply his experience to enable his consulting clients in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to achieve faster process development, accomplish efficient troubleshooting, and leverage advantaged mixing technology.
In addition to his consulting, Aaron also teaches the course “Applied Mixing Technology for Process Development: Scaling Down to Scale Up” for Scientific Update and had been teaching the course “Scaling and Piloting for the Process Industries” for CfPA.
Aaron frequently delivers presentations at AIChE meetings, symposia, and conferences on both process development and mixing. He has been an organizer and leader at past AIChE Process Development Symposia. He co-authored a chapter in the NAMF handbook Advances in Industrial Mixing. He has had a long-standing role with the Framatome BHR Fluid Mixing Processes (FMP) consortium, both as a liaison from Rohm and Haas/Dow as well as his current role as a consultant to FMP.
Aaron earned his BSChE degree from Northeastern University in 1982 and his MChE from Villanova University while working at Rohm and Haas in 1987. Aaron has 8 US patents related to the practical application of mixing technology to chemical processes.