GUNTHER KRACKER, PhD, is the Head of Product Management & Cost Estimation for the Sustainable Hydrocarbon Solutions product line at Linde Engineering (Email: gunther.kracker@linde.com). He has worked at Linde Engineering since 2004, and his experience in the petrochemical industry includes serving as the lead process engineer for major steam cracker grassroot and revamp projects. From 2013 to 2020, Kracker led the process engineering for petrochemical plants team. After 2017, his team of process engineers also included the process engineering group for cracking furnace design. Since 2021, he has led product management and cost estimation for petrochemical plants, and from 2023 onward his responsibility extended to natural gas plants and petrochemical plants in the new Sustainable Hydrocarbon Solutions product line. Kracker earned his MA and PhD degrees in process engineering at the Univ. of Technology in Graz, Austria