Robert Young

Senior Engineer and OLI Fellow

 

Role

Bob has been with OLI since 1986, joining after a successful 21-year tenure at Allied Chemical. Bob provides for the ongoing health and evolution of OLI's numerical solver code, which is written in FORTRAN. Bob also is the ultimate fallback person regarding problematic process simulations.

 

Accomplishments

Starting in 1987, when he took over responsibility for OLI's FORTRAN code, Bob has added many facilities, which were pivotal in OLI's achieving significant growth in the market. Among these accomplishments were original UI development for both ESP, Dynachem and Prochem, evolution of OLI's tower in the area of mass and heat transfer limited (packed) towers. During Bob's 28 years with OLI he has made all of the major code additions to handle an increased number of phases and phase combinations including two electrolyte liquid phases and sublimation. All of this was accomplished while, at the same time, seeing that the code executes as fast as possible.
 

Bob is also a highly experienced process simulation consultant and has been the lead on several OLI consulting projects for complex electrolyte-based flowsheets.

 

Areas of Expertise

• Process engineering

• Process simulation

• Chemical engineering

• Numerical methods and algorithms

• Electrolyte thermodynamics

Publications

 

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Education

• BS, Ohio University, 1965