Greg Sisler | AIChE

Greg Sisler

Process Development Engineer
DuPont

Greg is a Process Development Engineer with experience at the full range of scale - lab through commercial, including startups.  He was trained as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley.  In his career with DuPont and INVISTA, Gregg helped commercialize new technologies in THF and poly-THF (Terathane®) in LYCRA® intermediates, was Technology Guardian in Aramid Intermediates for Nomex® and Kevlar®, scaled-up fire-fighting foams and surface protection agents in Fluoroproducts, and developed OLEDs and Polyimide offerings in Electronics and Communications.  Gregg gained experience in hydrogenation, oxidation, catalyst development, chemical synthesis and polymerization processes, and in handling hazardous materials, including butane, ethylene oxide and phosgene.   He is expert in basic-data development and process safety.  Earlier in his career, Gregg helped optimize and scale-up catalyst for both the pilot and commercial facilities for the two-step THF ex-butane process and for the heterogeneously-catalyzed Terathane® process.  Each process was based on technology developed in-house.