Laliberte, Marc
Veolia Water Solution & Technologies, Quebec, Canada
Marc Laliberté is a water treatment specialist with a background in process engineering and chemistry. He has a vast experience in mining, metallurgical and general industrial projects. He is a specialist in the treatment of industrial waste water, treatment of feed water, water management and water quality (chemistry) and quantity problems. His current focus in on the integration of physico-chemical and biological processes to improve treatment of challenging waters.
Jackson, Tracey
Baker Hughes, Texas, USA
Jayaweera, Palitha
SRI, California, USA
Kundu, Prodip
OLI Systems, Inc., New Jersey, USA
Lawrence, Josh
Fluor Process Technology Group, Alberta, Canada
Josh Lawrence P.Eng. is a Process Engineer with Fluor’s Process Technology Group in Calgary. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta. For the past six years, Josh has been involved in the operation and design of in situ oil sands production facilities.
BIOGRAPHIES
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Gnotke, Oliver
Kronos International, Inc., Leverkusen, Germany
Dr.-Ing. Oliver Gnotke is the team leader Chloride Process development for Kronos International, Inc., leading producer of titanium dioxide with 6 production locations worldwide. He works for Kronos since 12 years having positions in different technical departments. His main responsability is the optimization of the production sites with respect to cost, quality and throughput. He has wide experience with CAE tools as for example flowsheet simulation, CFD and thermodynamic properties estimation. Prior to his work for Kronos, Oliver worked from 1999-2004 as research assistant at the Chair of Energy Technology, University of Darmstadt/Germany. His main resarch topics were experimental studies and simulation of mulitphase flow in chemical and power plants. Graduated 2004 to PhD (Dr.-Ing.). Oliver started his studies as Chemical Engineer at the University of Dortmund, Germany. During university studies he made several internships in the chemical industry as Bayer, Henkel, CFPI (France) and Lurgi Engineering where he optimized polymerization reaction using numerical simulations.
Boulfiza, Moh
University of Saskatchewan
Berthold, James
OLI Systems, Inc., New Jersey, USA
James W. Berthold is the Director of Customer Relations for OLI Systems, Inc. He has been with OLI for the past 28 years. He currently manages technical support for all OLI products and Alliance products. Jim oversees the activities of two specialists in support, Jane Mooney and Rasika Nimkar. Jim came to OLI from DuPont (Newark, Delaware) where he was part of the deep-well defense project which included the simulation of complex chemical systems in subsurface conditions at moderate temperatures and high pressures. Prior to that he graduated from the University of Delaware under the direction of Robert Wood and designed and constructed instruments to measure thermodynamic properties in aqueous solutions at high temperatures and pressures. His undergraduate degree was from Seton Hall University where he designed experimental synthesis reactions for the transport of specific chemical agents to target cancer cells. When not simulating Jim volunteers for the Bogota, New Jersey Fire Department.
Anderko, Andre
OLI Systems, Inc.
Blinn, Kevin
Rutgers
Albinet, Benoit
Total
Brant, Jonathan
University of Wyoming
Cao, Liu
DNV-GL
Daluja, Sachin
OLI Systems, Inc.
de Jonge, Peter
Honeywell Process Solutions, Alberta, Canada
Peter de Jonge, P. Eng is a Simulation Consultant with Honeywell Process Solutions based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He graduated with a B.Sc. Eng (Chemical Engineering) from the University of New Brunswick in May 1998 and joined Hyprotech in Calgary a few months later. He has worked at Hyprotech, Aspentech and Honeywell and has had a variety of technical and business focused roles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Alberta.
Depetris, Chris
OLI Systems, Inc.
Milne, Corey
Compass Minerals, Utah, USA
Corey Milne, PhD was introduced in 1980 to inorganic process chemistry simulation with the Quinary Prism (5-ion) computer model developed by Meissner and Kusik for Compass Minerals’ solar evaporation production complex on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake near Ogden. As a chemical engineer (BS 1980, PhD 1988), Corey has developed simulations of several operating solar pond and plant inorganic chemical processes in Utah, Israel and China, and studied many other facilities around the world, both existing and proposed. His experience managing the Ogden production facility of 400 employees for 8 years provides a unique perspective in his current activities documenting the Ogden facility’s process technology and improving the process chemistry simulation with OLI MSE regression and Developer Edition. He has been a serious OLI user for two years.
Gonzalez, Alberto J.
Teck Metals Ltd, Trail, British Columbia, Canada
J. Alberto Gonzalez, PhD received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Metallurgy from the University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1984 and 1985 respectively. He then pursued Ph.D. studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After completion of his Ph.D. degree he joined Teck Metals Ltd. in 1991, where he has been working since then. He is currently Principal Metallurgist at the Applied Research and Technology Group in Trail BC. His work focus on developing energy efficient ways to electrowin Zinc and Copper and on optimisation of the winning and refining of Lead. Over last 4 years, Dr. Gonzalez has worked in a variety of water treatment projects.
Grise, Steven L.
Chemours, Delaware, USA
Steve Grise received his B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from The University of Notre Dame and his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University. His professional experience includes work at Amoco Oil and Dupont before his present position at Chemours. Steve has specialized in technical consulting for aqueous thermodynamics and simulation. Steve is co-author (with Marshall Rafal and James Berthold, OLI, and Noel Scrivner, Dupont) of the Chapter on Models for Electrolyte Solutions, of the book Models for Thermodynamic and Phase Equilibria Calculations, edited by Stanley Sandler. Stev has been an active OLI user since 1986, exploiting all aspects of OLI technology in countless engineering studies since then.
Hardy, James
ChemCorr, LLC, Colorado, USA
James E. Hardy, PhD is the principal of ChemCorr, LLC, a consulting firm working in chemistry, corrosion, electrochemistry, and chemical kinetics. He worked from 1987 to 2009 for Bettis Atomic Power Lab in water chemistry at high temperature and pressure, chemical instrumentation, and corrosion modeling and control. He worked for Exxon Research to control pollution in the development of difficult resources like coal and oil shale and the use of synthetic fuels. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Texas (1976). James is a member of NACE and ASTM and The Combustion Institute. Based on a project with the University of Colorado, James commissioned OLI to add the OLI API to the Developer Edition of the OLI Engine in order to make it easier for clients to work with the OLI model within Microsoft Excel.
Hu, Zhichao
Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
McKenzie, Pat
Aqueous Process Simulations, Inc. (AQSim), New Jersey, USA
Macdonald, Digby
University of California at Berkely, California, USA
Distinguished Professor Macdonald gained his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Calgary in Canada. He has served as Assistant Research Officer at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Lecturer in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Senior Research Associate at Alberta Sulfur Research, Honorary Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Calgary, Director and Professor of the Fontana Corrosion Center, Ohio State University, Vice President, Physical Sciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California and has been Professor and later Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University since 1991. Dr. Macdonald is the recipient of many awards and honors, he has published more than 950 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings, plus four books, one of which ("Transient Techniques in Electrochemistry") established an important area of electrochemical research, and has 11 patents and numerous invention disclosures credited to his name. His professional competence lies in the fields of electrochemistry, corrosion science, battery science and technology, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, high temperature aqueous chemistry, nuclear power technology, energy conversion technology, and physical chemistry. He has been a consultant to many companies, include his consultancy to OLI Systems on various projects since the 1990s.
Nimkar, Rasika
OLI Systems, Inc. New Jersey, USA
Papangelakis, Vladimirous
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Perez, Krystal
CH2M HILL, Oregon, USA
Poellmann, Peter
AQSim Europe, Germany
Rafal, Marshall
OLI Systems, Inc., New Jersey, USA
Tambach, Tim
Shell Global Solutions International B.V., The Netherlands
Tim Tambach, PhD has M.Sc. degrees in Environmental Chemistry and in Physical Geography and Soil Science (both University of Amsterdam, 2000). He has a Ph.D. degree in Computational Physics and Chemistry (University of Amsterdam, 2005) and wrote a dissertation titled: ‘Swelling of clay minerals - A molecular simulation study’. He was employed by TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands for 7 years and moved to Shell in 2012 as reservoir engineer. His current work is dominated by computing the geochemical impact of subsurface CO2 storage and waterflooding for improved oil recovery, using reactive transport and geochemical modelling. He also works on geochemical databases and the development of (in-house) simulation tools.
Tremaine, Peter
University of Guelph