Roberto Lopez-Garcia

Roberto is the Regional Manager for catalyst sales in the ammonia and methanol related industries. Roberto has over 20 years of experience servicing the chemical, petrochemical and gas/syngas industries in process equipment sales, technical consultancy services and catalyst sales. Roberto studied Chemistry at the University of Nottingham and achieved his PhD in Organometallic Chemistry  in 2005. At Johnson Matthey he has responsibility for the catalyst sales in the European territory and works closely with JM’s market management team providing solutions to all our customers.

Marco Groenewegen

Marco Groenewegen is the research and development lead engineer at Kreber and holds a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Delft University of Technology. During his career at Kreber, Marco has played a vital role in various successful innovations, making sure Prilling Equipment meets or exceeds regulations and demands for new products in different markets. Among these achievements are the calculation model for thermodynamic balance of prilling towers, and his work on the development of the spiralling jet breakup model, allowing detailed modelling of the jet breakup of various melts in the prilling process.

Timothy O’Connell

Tim has worked for Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies business as Ammonia Market Manager since July 2023. In this role, Tim works across JM’s catalyst technologies business to drive performance and improvements for customers of our chemical catalysts for manufacture of Ammonia. Tim previously worked in Johnson Matthey’s Clean Air business for 20 years. He worked in a variety of technology and customer-facing roles, including secondments to China and India, and development of new technologies to meet the requirements of our automotive customers as they developed their emissions control solutions to meet increasingly stringent emissions legislation. Tim has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Elsayed Elbanna

Elsayed Elbanna is the R&D Sector Head of Abu Qir Fertilizer Co., based in Alexandria, Egypt. He has a B.Sc in Chemical Engineering, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute. He joined ABU Qir Fertilizer Co. in 2006 as a process engineer and during a career that spans almost two decades, he was involved in production-related problems, de-bottlenecking and revamping studies, reviewing equipment design and participating in studying new fertilizer projects from scratch. He has also extensive experience in conducting & reviewing feasibility studies and working experience with various licensors, PMCs and EPC Contractors.

Johannes Franz

Jean-Rémi Stephany

Jean-Rémi Stephany obtained a Master of Engineering (MEng) in General mechanical engineering and a Research Masters (MRes) in Materials and Surface Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers After benefiting from a solid technical education, he acquired a wide engineering background that has provided him with the foundations to both practically develop and research in the engineering sector. He defines himself as a versatile engineer who is both able to be rigorous for technical tasks and to be open minded in order to develop wider perspectives to provide long term sustainable solutions to scientific challenges.

Mahal Patel

Mahal Patel obtained a M.Sc. at the University of Twente in 2007 and a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 2009. From 2009 until 2021 Mr. Patel worked as a Process Engineer at Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions in Frankfurt, Germany. He has a broad experience in Syngas technologies like Methanation, CO-Shift and AutoThermal Reforming. Since April 2021 Mr. Patel works as a Process Engineer Syngas within Stamicarbon and is closely involved in the Stami Green Ammonia Technology.

Alexandre Boiarsky

Alexandre Boiarsky is a senior architect specializing in Hydrogen projects within the OneTech support branch ofTotalEnergies. The OneTech Branch architects focus on executing complex projects with a fit-for-purpose and industrialmindset. Alexandre initiated his career as a process engineer at TECHNIP. In 2001, he joined Total's EP branch (nowTotalEnergies) and held diverse roles, including Offshore Installation Manager in Gabon, Technical Entity Manager inAngola – Block 17, and Senior Lead Development Architect for the Tilenga project in Uganda. Since 2021, Alexandre hasbeen actively involved in supporting the development of the H2Mag project for the JV TEH2 in Chile (focused on greenAmmonia).

Siew Ling Kong

Siew Ling is a currently process engineer in the hydrogen group within the OneTech entity of TotalEnergies. Together with others, the H2 organisation is supporting the company’s ambition to decarbonize existing assets, and contributing to energy transition, and unlock growth of massive H2 production globally.Siew Ling started her career as a process engineer in SHELL Malaysia in 2004. In 2015, she joined TotalEnergies France as process engineer to support development studies in Africa, and South America. Before joining the H2 team in 2022, she was in TEP Denmark as Process & Flow Assurance Team Lead within the Production entity.

Marina Simonova

Marina is Head of Nitrogen Market Intelligence at OCI Global based in London, with over 19 years of experience in the fertilizer industry with specialization in ammonia value chain & nitrogen commodities. She has previously worked across different roles, including a leading fertilizer producer EuroChem in Russia, several consulting companies such as CRU Group, Fertecon, IHS Markit, S&P Global and held a position of Senior Director of Market Intelligence Service at the global industry association IFA in France. She has a proven record of public speaking at multiple international conferences organized by IFA, TFI, Wood Mackenzie, CRU, Argus, Casale, Creon, HGCA, CPFIA, GPCA and IHS Markit.

Francesco Dorini

Francesco Dorini has a master degree in Chemical and Process engineering obtained at the University of Bologna. Since 2013, he works for Yara International. He started as process engineer following Ammonia production process in Ferrara plant, then worked in Belgium in the same role at Yara Tertre and since 2019 Francesco switched to Urea process back in Ferrara. He has experience in process optimization, energy consumption optimization, implementation of APC controllers, in RCAs, HAZOPs, contractors' management for catalyst replacement and reduction, and Pre Start up Safety Reviews after plant stops. 

Marc Wieschalla

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering 2008; Master of Computer Aided Process Engineering 2010; both at University of Applied Science Krefeld, Germany. First Job at GEA Messo PT involved in process engineerings for ammonium sulphate - , sodium chloride -, calcium chloride – crystallization plants. Started career at Uhde in 2012 in the process engineering group for urea. Involved in several proposal works for urea plants, involved in several urea plant commissionings; worked as a lead engineer for the process engineering of a urea plant in Egypt. Since Sept. 2020 I am heading the process group for urea within Uhde.

Muhammad Baqir

I have been working for PT Pupuk Indonesia for over 9 years, and has been more than 5 years involved in how to efficiently produce ammonia in every way possible that also strongly related to how to reduce GHG emission. From early 2017-2018, I was assigned to assist Industry ministry to develop companies’ baseline on its Green House gasses. Recently, Pupuk Indonesia determine its target when and how they will achieve Net Zero Emission by 2060.

My personal interest is based on curiosity to be better version and how I have a contribution toward society. I am a father with two active kids around to teach me how to be adaptive to any condition and nudge me to strengthen myself physically through discipline strength training and psychologically.

Stepan Spatenka

Dr. Stepan Spatenka is a chemical engineer with more than 15 years’ experience in delivering services with focus on development of advanced catalytic reactor models in gPROMS and their applications over the process lifecycle from lab to industrial operations. At Siemens, Stepan is leading the Catalytic Reactors Practice as part of Siemens Industry Software. He has a keen interest in applying advanced modelling techniques to address the challenges of the process industries.

Mayank Patel

Mayank Patel is a Chemical Engineer with more than 13 years’ experience on advanced process modelling and optimisation, with an emphasis on reaction and adsorption applications, helping companies make the best use of model-based solutions for all stages of design and operation. At Siemens, Mayank is developing and executing a strategy to grow Siemens process automation software business in the chemical industry by defining a go-to-market strategy, identifying gaps in offering to contribute to product development roadmaps and providing strategic input and high-level technical account management.

Azusa Okazaki

Azusa Okazaki is a program leader of g-Methanol technology. She joined Toyo Engineering in 2014 after 4 years of experience as process engineer of Mitsui Chemical. Prior to her current position, she worked in process engineering of syngas technologies. She has been leading the development and promotion of our g-Methanol technology since 2020.

Lisa Krumpholz

Lisa has more than 10 years of experience in catalysts, their application and performance optimization. Since 2019 she is leading the sales and marketing activities at Navigance, a Clariant-founded digital solutions provider based in Munich, Germany. In this role, she consults with customers and partners on digital transformation and AI-based process optimization and monitoring.Lisa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Münster.

Maria Liouta

Maria Liouta is a Product Development Engineer working at T.EN Netherlands the past 4 years, specializing in hydrogen and syngas technologies.She has a demonstrated experience in leading R&D programs, working on project management, process design and engineering for low carbon emission technologies.

She is involved in a number of development programs for technologies to drive energy transition initiatives.

She holds a MSc in Chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, after which she completed a two-year postgraduate program specializing in Bioprocess engineering design at TU Delft, in The Netherlands.

Fabio Enrico Gianfranco Ferrari

Mr Ferrari is a Chemical Engineer with 20 years of global experience in refinery and chemical industry, enthusiastic about Green Technologies to find answers to Energy Transition problems as Head of Carbon and Emission Department in NextChem, part of Maire Group. His expertise covers multiple technologies on syngas production and decarbonization ofnew or existing plants. He has worked for Casale designing Ammonia, Methanol, Nitric Acid and Complex Fertilizers plants. He has a strong technical background in Oil&Gas business from his experience in Foster Wheeler during which he has designed a wide range of process units on proprietary and licensed technologies.

Ardyan Kusuma Jaya

Ardyan Kusuma Jaya has 15 years experience in Petrochemical Industry especially in Ammonia Plant. He graduated in Chemical Engineering and Magister Management and is now working as Business & Project Development Manager at PT. Kaltim Parna Industry (KPI), an Ammonia plant in Bontang, Indonesia. Currently he has several project developments in green industry such as green hydrogen and green ammonia located in North Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Florian Waeber

Florian Waeber is responsible for modeling and simulation activities at SolydEra SA, one of the Research and Development hubs within the SolydEra group dedicated to large systems and applications of solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers.

A holder of a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Florian specialized in fuel cells during his master's thesis conducted at VTT in Espoo, Finland.

Since becoming a part of SolydEra in 2018, he has been deeply involved in the development of the hot balance of plant for fully reversible solid oxide cell systems (rSOC). His contributions span diverse areas, encompassing design, modeling, sizing, safety analysis, and documentation with a focus on achieving certifications.

Prakash Chandra

Chemical engineer + MBA (Operations Management) with 36 years’ plus experience in Ammonia Plant operations, Construction, Pre-commissioning / Commissioning in India/Abroad viz., Indorama Eleme Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited, Nigeria, MFCL Durgapur (WB), India, SBGH / Sonatrach joint venture Ammonia plant in Algeria, Kribhco Fertilizer Shahjahanpur (UP), India, CFCL Gadepan Kota (Rajasthan), India and IFFCO Aonla, Bareilly (UP), India. Areas of responsibilities include but not limited to plant operation/maintenance, start up, shut down, emergencies handling, manpower recruitment, training / development, man and material management during normal plant operation/ shut down, assessing future requirement, initiating actions, accordingly, dealing with national / overseas vendors, statutory bodies.

Oliver Henkes

Oliver Henkes completed his studies as a degreed process engineer at Frankfurt University of Applied Science. Since 1999 he works in the precious metal business. During the past two decades, Oliver has been responsible for project management for precious metals compounds, he has headed a refinery team, worked as an Application Engineer in the production of semi-finished silver products as well as a Technical Sales Engineer of silver catalyst for the production of formaldehyde. Oliver has joined Heraeus in 2011. Today, Oliver holds a Senior Technical Service Manager position in the Gauze Catalysts & Services team at Heraeus in Hanau, Germany. 

Susanna Voges

Susanna Voges studied Process Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology, where she also obtained her PhD in Process Engineering from the Institute of Thermal Separation Processes in 2008. She started her career in chemical industry joining BASF late 2007. At BASF she had different functions in technical development, working on the design of key equipment for CAPEX projects, troubleshooting at production plants and on process and production optimization. Coming back from an overseas assignment, which implied setting up a regional process engineering hub for Asia Pacific in Shanghai, she eventually joined manufacturing in early 2016. After a total of six years in pigments production as a production manager and later as a plant manager she decided to join Voovio Technologies in early 2022 in order to serve the industry with innovative solutions for some of its most pressing needs. 

Elena Stylianou

Elena Stylianou is the Global Head of Hydrogen Technologies within KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions, with oversight of technical and commercial development of KBR’s hydrogen technology portfolio . Elena has 16 years of experience in the ammonia, hydrogen and syngas industry, specialising in clean ammonia and hydrogen production. Elena has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, USA and an MSc in Advanced Chemical Process Design from the University of Manchester (UMIST), UK. She is a chartered member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK)

Takuhiro Minato

Takuhiro Minato is a process engineer dedicating to research and development of Urea technology in Toyo Engineering Corporation. His responsibilities include engineering of new licensing projects and EPC projects / commissioning, start-up / performance evaluation of existing plant for revamping projects.

Kevin Mowbray

Kevin holds a BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering Degree and he joined ICI’s  Speciality Catalysts team in 1996, specialising on the purification of a number of industrial gas feedstocks.  

Kevin has held a range of technical and commercial roles within Johnson Matthey’s Syngas and Environmental Catalysts businesses.  

More recently Kevin has been the Commercial Lead for Johnson Matthey’s European and FSU catalyst businesses covering; Syngas, Nitric acid, Petrochemicals as well as number of other Chemicals markets.  

He is currently the Lead Sales Manager for Syngas Europe.  

Syed Ahsan Bukhari

Syed Ahsan Bukhari is a Mechanical Engineer with over 14 years' experience in Fertilizers and Petrochemicals industry and specializes in Fixed Equipment Inspection & Maintenance. As a recognized damage mechanisms specialist, he has successfully led numerous Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations addressing fixed equipment reliability issues. Currently, Mr. Bukhari is leading Fixed Equipment Inspection team at Pakistan's largest Industrial complex. 

Joachim Harteg Jacobsen

Joachim Harteg Jacobsen works as a senior business development manager for Topsoe A/S with a current focus on ammonia cracking as an enabler of the decarbonization energy transition.  Joachim has 25+ years of experience from Topsoe technology and business development within catalysts, process technologies, fuel cells and electrolysis. Joachim has several years of experience with early power-to-X and bio-to-X business and project opportunities including bio/e-methanol and green ammonia technologies, project developments and business opportunities and is deeply engaged in Topsoe’s endeavors to support the global green energy transition by leadership in CO2 emission reduction technologies.

Alfin Ferdiawan

Alfin Ferdiawan is a process engineer at PT Petrokimia Gresik, Indonesia’s leading fertilizer company. He has over seven years of experience in designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting various chemical processes, such as ammonia, urea, and water treatment plants. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Universitas Diponegoro. He is currently working in a department that focuses on process evaluation and quality control of the ammonia, urea, and water treatment plant processes. He has a lot of experience in catalyst replacement in the ammonia plant. He is passionate about applying his skills and knowledge to solve real-world problems and contribute to the development of the fertilizer industry in Indonesia.

Lai Nguyen Tuong

Nguyen Tuong Lai is a process engineer specializing in the analysis and evaluation of urea process, including assessments of performance and the operational status of process sections, as well as equipments within the urea process production line.  In parallel with researching, optimizing, Nguyen Tuong Lai also undertakes projects related to the improvement of urea technology at the Ca Mau fertilizer plant. He has been working at Petrovietnam Ca Mau Fertilizer Joint Stock Company (PVCFC)  since graduating from Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University. He has bachelor’s degree of chemical engineering.

Mark Brouwer

Mark Brouwer graduated at the Technical University of Eindhoven at the faculty of Chemical Engineering. After working as a process engineer in an ethylene plant, he joined Stamicarbon as Licensing Manager Urea Revamps. Later he became Manager Stamicarbon Services responsible for all Stamicarbon's activities in existing urea plants. In these fourteen years he did visit about one hundred urea plants worldwide and was involved in numerous revamp, relocation, debottlenecking and grass root projects. Since January 1, 2009, Mark left Stamicarbon and started up UreaKnowHow.com with the mission to improve the Safety and Performance of All Nitrogen Fertilizer plants worldwide.

Rafal Bernat

Rafal Bernat is Technical Professional Leader in the Clean Ammonia and Hydrogen business unit at KBR. He is responsible for KBR Green Ammonia technology, K-GreeN®, market deployment, commercialization and technical development. Having significant experience in electrolyzers, he also serves as an internal consultant across all KBR business segments supporting market entry of the technology. Rafal has mixed business and scientific experience across all clean ammonia and hydrogen value chain, from renewable power, through hydrogen production, ammonia synthesis and hydrogen consumption. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering specializing in fuel cells from Warsaw University of Technology, and worked at multiple European Universities on electrolyzer technology and distributed energy generation systems.

Gabriele Di Carlo

Professional experience started in Eurotecnica (Italian company) in 1989: collaboration in preparing Basic Design and Detail Engineering development for Melamine and other plants, including start-up and coordination of all Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and Test-run activities.  

Joined CASALE in 2006 as Process Leader, involved in development and design of Urea revamping and new plants projects, including Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and Test-run activities.  

In 2013, after Melamine Technology acquisition from Borealis, involved in Melamine Technology under all aspects, starting from proposal up to Melamine plant Start-up and Test run.  

Presently operating as Melamine Technology Manager in the Urea/Melamine department.

Matteo Fumagalli

Matteo Fumagalli graduated in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan in 2009.

After graduation he worked five years as Process Engineer in a chemical plant. In 2014 he joined the Urea process department in Casale.  

During its career as process engineer, he was involved in several projects ranging from conceptual studies till complex revamping projects of which he also supervised the start-up.  

Since 2022 he devoted himself to the strengthening and development of Casale’s urea know-how assuming the role of Urea Technology Manager, position which he currently holds.

Muhammad Idrees

Muhammad Idrees is currently working as the Chief Commercial Officer at Engro. Prior to this he was leading the Business Development where he was responsible for scoping and developing new business opportunities for the energy vertical ranging from investments in renewable energy and green Hydrogen. Idrees has extensive experience of the fertilizers business where he served in multiple roles gaining rich experience in Ammonia/Urea Operations, project management, business development and engineering amongst other departments. Idrees serves on the Steering Committee of United Kingdom’s most prestigious conference – Nitrogen & Syngas of CRU. He is also a published author in 11 international publications.

Klemens Wawrzinek

Klemens Wawrzinek holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

He is with Linde for more than 18 years now, his current position is Project Manager Business Development & Sales for Hydrogen & Syngas. Prior to this role his tasks as Lead Process Engineer for Hydrogen & Syngas spanned from project development & optimization over project execution to commissioning, start-up, and performance testing including polygeneration plants. Before joining Linde, he worked with Enginion AG as R&D Engineer & Team Lead Thermodynamics.

Clara Schlereth

Clara Schlereth is a postdoctoral researcher at the DECHEMA research institute in Frankfurt, Germany. She has a master’s degree and a PhD in materials science and engineering in the field of high temperature corrosion. In the last five years, she studied both environmental factors as well as the material selection for the process plants. One focus of her work is corrosion by hot synthesis gas in conventional and new technologies.

Johannes Elischewski

Johannes Elischewski graduated from Technical University of Dortmund in 2015 and joined thyssenkrupp Uhde as a process engineer. He has been working in engineering and commissioning of various ammonia projects. Currently, he is working on projects for cracking of ammonia to hydrogen, a technology which thyssenkrupp Uhde has added to its portfolio to offer the whole process value chain from green, blue or conventional ammonia to the decomposition of ammonia to hydrogen in order to serve the needs of the energy market.

Paolo Mazzara

Execution and commercial background in energy transition, also starting the sister company Nextchem proposal management in recent past, grown with technologies and various project management experiences, in 23 years with KT. Contribution to value engineering strategies, including the energy saving and the investment reduction for projects and proposals and to the MAIRE Group’s technology innovation efforts. Involved in developing new business areas, with technology alliances and in new commercial areas, including technical advising and proposal management for Blue Hydrogen partnerships, methanol technology integration, green ammonia innovation together with the sister company Stamicarbon. Passionate contributor to energy transition initiatives with additional interest for social responsiveness of the value proposition.

Tatang Arind Pradibta

Tatang Arind Pradibta is a Production Engineer at PT Pupuk Kujang, one of the leading fertilizer company in Indonesia. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). He began his career as Process Engineer at Kujang 1B Plant and now has over 8 years of experience in designing, operating, optimizing, and troubleshooting various chemical processes, especially ammonia production process. He also actively involved in several project such as Aqueous Ammonia Plant Revamping Project,, Kujang 1A Command Center Project, etc. He is interested in technologies that can be used to increase energy efficiency and optimize production, especially that can be used in aging ammonia plant.

Christoph Krinninger

Christoph holds a diploma degree in chemistry from the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität Munich.In 2005, he also completed his Ph.D. thesis. Christoph Krinninger has been working in the chemical industry for over 19 years and was responsible from 2014 to 2021 as a Senior Sales Account Manager for ammonia/methanol and hydrogen customers in Europe. In 2022, he took over the role of  Global Business Development Manager Energy Transition at Clariant Catalysts, focusing on ammonia cracking, green ammonia, and sustainable methanol.

Steve Lancaster

Steve Lancaster is the Chief Engineer at BD Energy Systems, responsible for steam methane furnace technology, in particular the thermal and process design. He has worked with fired heaters in general, and steam methane reformers in particular, for 37 years, including at Kellogg/KBR for over thirty years, and IHI E&C (former Davy/Kvaerner). BD Energy Systems, located in Houston, Texas, USA is a world leader in plant revamps and modernizations, specialized in executing turnkey projects, revamps, modernizations, and supply of engineered process equipment, including furnaces for ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, and gas-to-liquids (GTL).

John Brightling

Martin Gorny

Martin Gorny coordinates as Product Director ATR based Hydrogen Technologies the technology offered in this field by Air Liquide Engineering & Construction. Martin joined Lurgi GmbH, now Air Liquide Engineering & Construction, 20 years ago. A seasoned professional, Martin has worked in a variety of technology and managerial positions covering hydrogen, syngas and methanol technologies. Martin holds an Engineering Degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin and a Masters Degree in Environmental Science, Policy and Planning from the University of Bath.

Alexander Rösch

Alexander Rösch is the Director of the Syngas & Methanol Product Line at Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions. Alexander holds a German Diploma for Chemical Engineering from TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He started his career as a Process Engineer with the Lurgi GmbH in 2006. After different assignments as Process and Commissioning Manager, Alexander was leading the Process Department for HyCO Technologies at the Air Liquide Center in Houston for several years. After heading the Product Line for the Lurgi Steam Methane Reformer in Frankfurt, he is today managing the Product Line for Lurgi Autothermal Reforming (ATR), Lurgi Gas- and Liquid POX, Lurgi Rectisol and Lurgi Methanol Synthesis. 

Thomas Ried

Thomas Ried studied chemical engineering at the Technical University Munich. After his Master´s thesis in 2011, he started as a process and development engineer at Linde Engineering. During the first years at Linde, his area of responsibility was in Adsorption technology with particular focus on pressure swing adsorption. For the past couple of years, he works as a process engineer for Hydrogen and Syngas plants. Currently, his focus is on reducing the carbon footprint of new as well as existing plants. 

Igor Makarenko

As Chief Sales Officer, Igor Makarenko is responsible for the strategic direction of global sales for Solex Thermal Science. Igor joined Solex in 2010 and has since helped to solidifying the brand as a globally recognized technology provider of heating, cooling, drying and energy recovery solutions for solids, gases and liquids.

Eric van Dijk

Eric van Dijk (Ph.D.) is an experienced project manager with a strong scientific background in Chemical Engineering. Eric van Dijk has a degreein Chemical Engineering from Eindhoven Technical University. He finishedhis Ph.D. at the Eindhoven Technical University on a mechanisticinvestigation of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. He joined TNO (formallyECN) in 2000, working in the applied catalysis group. He designed andtested catalysts, reactors, and systems for syngas generation and CO cleanup applied within a fuel processor for fuel cells. He became manager of these activities in 2007 until 2009. Since 2008, he is involved in the field of CO2 capture technology development, working on material, system, and plant design for the Sorption Enhanced Water-Gas Shift (SEWGS) process. He has a vast experience in syngas catalysis and adsorption processes. He was the Project Coordinator of STEPWISE (12 M€) and has managed design and engineering work for pilot demonstration within the H2020 projects STEPWISE, FReSMe and C4U. He is currently coordinating the INITIATE project (21 M€) and leads the engineering group of the TNO Petten location.

Phil Ingram

Phil Ingram is the business leader for Johnson Matthey’s Low Carbon Hydrogen Business.  JM is pleased to be able to bring our award winning LCHTM licensed process to clients seeking to establish world-leading blue hydrogen and ammonia production facilities.  Phil has spent much of his career in hydrogen and syngas, starting out in catalyst development for steam reforming and autothermal reforming applications.  He has spent the last seventeen years in a variety of commercial roles in catalyst sales and technology licensing roles in the Americas and Europe always with hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol as a central pillar.  Phil joined the Low Carbon Hydrogen team in October 2021 motivated by the transformative opportunity that the transition to Net Zero presents.

Lari Bjerg Knudsen

Lari Bjerg Knudsen is ammonia technology manager for Topsoe A/S with responsibility for continued development of Topsoe ammonia technology to support the global green energy transition. Mr. Knudsen has more than 20 years of experience within chemical engineering and more than 15 years working for Topsoe A/S within hydrogen, syngas and ammonia. The first 12 years covering design, operator training, commissioning and start-up as well as process development. For the last 3 years Mr. Knudsen has held his current position as ammonia technology manager with a strong focus on developing green ammonia. Mr. Knudsen has a M. Sc. Chemical Engineering degree from the Technical University of Denmark.

Giovanni Manenti

Giovanni Manenti has spent more than 20 years, in engineering and manufacturing companies, in the design and product development for process heat transfer equipment. He has focused his activity on “hot & heavy” equipment like process gas boilers, transfer-line exchangers, waste heat recovery units, heaters, and syngas prototype equipment. Mr Manenti counts seven international patents on heat transfer technology and has a PhD in chemical engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Dmitry Lipkind

Dmitry Lipkind holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in Moscow and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry from University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. In 2016 he joined Topsoe A/S as Technical Service Engineer within the Syngas field. Since 2022, Dmitry has been working as Subject Matter Expert in Water-Gas Shift, supporting global sales in the company.

Giorgio Monti

Engineer with more than 30 years experience in Engineering and Construction Management, leading worldwide multidisciplinary projects in the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Energy, Utilities, Waste to Energy, Nuclear Industries and Infrastructures.  

He started as structural engineer in Tecnimont, then Head of department, then Project Manager for large EPC projects. Later he worked as Director of Engineering in international EPC contractors like Techint Europe and Techint India, which he founded and managed.  

More recently in Arkad-ABB as Engineering Director and then Regional Manager for Algeria and North Africa. 

Since 2021 in Casale as Head of Engineering Division.

Yasuhiko Kojima

Since he graduated with a master’s degree of chemical engineering and joined Toyo Engineering in 1983, Mr Kojima has developed his carrier as a process engineer and a technology manager in commercial and R&D projects of urea, syngas, FT synthesis, and renewable energies, including the R&D and commercialization of Toyo’s principal urea technology “ACES21®”.  Now, he is a Senior Manager in the Process Engineering Division and directing urea and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technologies in the company.

Aditya Sigit Prasetya

Aditya Sigit Prasetya is currently working as Superintendent at Ammonia 1B Plant. He joined PT Petrokimia Gresik in 2014 after graduating with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia. He began his career at Ammonia & Urea 1B Project as a Project Control Engineer, and in 2017, he joined the Commissioning Team of Ammonia 1B Plant. Then, after a successful commissioning &performance test of the Ammonia 1B Plant, he was appointed as Ammonia Plant supervisor. Now, he is responsible to lead ammonia plant operation to achieve production targets in terms of quantity, quality, and plant consumption energy efficiency. He has specialized in process operations, optimization, and troubleshooting of ammonia plants.

Pietro Moreo

Pietro Moreo has more than 26 years of experience in engineering development. From 1998 to 2007 he worked with Snamprogetti S.P.A., initially as Process Engineer, and successively as Process Leader. He joined Casale as Process Group Leader in 2007 and he was appointed Process Manager in 2012 with the task of taking care mainly of Methanol technology. Since 2018 Mr. Moreo has the role of Methanol Technology Manager and, since 2021, has also the role of Blue Hydrogen Technology Manager. Development, promotion, and supervision of the application of technologies and products of competence. Basic and Detailed Engineering for revamping of Ammonia – Methanol Plants; Basic and Detailed Engineering for New Ammonia – Methanol - Blue Hydrogen Plants; Ammonia and Methanol Converter Process Design; Pre-reformer and Water Gas Shift Reactors Process Design; Autothermal Reformer and Partial Oxidation Reactors Process Design; Preparation of technical offer and international bids; Plant start-up and test run.

Lukas Rothermich

Lukas Rothermich obtained a B.Eng. in industrial engineering at the University of Mosbach in 2010. From 2010 until 2020 Mr. Rothermich worked as area sales manager for WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE&Co. KG. Being mainly responsible for supporting chemical- and petrochemical plant operators planning state of the art instrumentation solution upgrades during turnarounds and revamps in multiple units including H2/syngas production and related ammonia plants.  His broad experience is in Temperature, Pressure, Level, Flow and IIOT measurement solutions. Furthermore he assisted EPC accounts in instrumenting gas carrier ships and setting up hydrocarbon storage terminals. Since 2020 as Global Market Segment Manager Chemicals & Petrochemicals he is responsible to develop jointly with more than 12000 ambitioned WIKA colleagues smart sensing solutions for the dedicated stakeholders with high focus on Decarbonisation and Digitalisation.

John Pach

John graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Chemical Engineering.   He joined ICI Billingham and spent a few years in methanol related process engineering design before relocating to Severnside site, at which he performed a variety of technical and operational roles associated with ammonia, nitric acid, CO2 liquefaction and ammonium nitrate production.   After a brief period in a project management role at another site, he returned to Severnside (then owned by Terra) as Site Production Manager.   After a spell as Terra's UK Technical Manager, he joined Johnson Matthey in 2008 and is now their Ammonia & Nitric Acid Technology Manager.

Dolores Alvarez

Dolores Alvarez started her career as R&D engineer at Sulzer Chemtech, involved in the design and development of mass transfer components for the chemical and petrochemical processes. In her current role as Senior Application Manager, she is responsible for all projects related to the ammonia, nitric acid and fertilizers industry, providing her extensive expertise and technical support.

Hussam Jouhara

Having worked in academia and the industry, Hussam has unique expertise in working on applied heat exchangers and energy-related research activities with direct support from research councils and various UK and international industrial partners. He has extensive expertise in designing and manufacturing various types of heat exchangers, including heat pipes and heat pipe-based heat exchangers for low-, medium- and high-temperature applications. His work in the field of heat pipe-based heat exchangers has resulted in novel designs for recouperators, steam generators/condensers and flat heat pipes that have been implemented across various industries. In addition to serving as Technical Director for Econotherm, Hussam is also Professor/Department Director for Research at Brunel University in London. Hussam has received more than £12.2M research funding from various UK/EU based research councils (RCUK & EU H2020) and from British and European industrial partners. He is a published author of academic books with filed patents in areas related to heat pipes engineering and manufacturing and energy from waste systems. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both Engineers Ireland (Ireland) and IMechE (UK).

Alex Scheerder

Alex Scheerder holds a Masters in Science degree in Applied Physics from the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He started his professional career in 1986 as a Research Associate at the NDT (Non Destructive Testing) Department of DSM Research in the Netherlands. From 1992 Mr. Scheerder headed the NDT Department of DSM Engineering-Stamicarbon. In 2001 he joined Stamicarbon as a Mechanical Lead Engineer Urea Technology Department. He worked on the development and successful introduction of the Safurex® duplex stainless steel in Stamicarbon urea plants. In 2007 he became head of the Mechanical Engineering & Inspection Department. Since 2018 Mr. Scheerder holds the position of Principal Engineer within Stamicarbon.

Oksana Melnyk

Oksana Melnyk is a Climate Policy Advisor at the Nitric Acid Climate Action Group (NACAG), an international initiative commissioned by the German Government to promote climate-friendly transformations within the global nitric acid production sector. Oksana holds degrees in political science and international relations from Trier University in Germany and Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Benjamin Mutz

Benjamin studied chemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and holds a PhD in chemical technology from the same university on the subject of CO2 hydrogenation. He joined hte GmbH in 2018 as a Project Manager for R&D Solutions in the field of petrochemistry.Since 2022, Benjamin is the Segment Lead for “Carbon Management & Renewables” at hte GmbH, leading a team of project managers and coordinating customer R&D projects for C1 value chain, CO2 conversion, syngas chemistry, NH3 cracking as well as conversion of bio-based chemicals.

Kai Mototaka

More than 10 years experiences in Oil&Gas Plant Engineering, and 7 years R&D and Business Development experiences especially for Green Ammonia production and Ammonia Cracking in JGC Group.Now leading the Zero Emission Fuel Team, focusing on clean energy, especially hydrogen and ammonia, we have been developing hydrogen and ammonia production related technologies. Currently acting as Program Manager for Green Chemical Demonstration Project under Green Innovation Fund by NEDO to develop Integrated Control System for Green Chemical Production Facility, such as Green Ammonia, and also for Large-scale Ammonia Cracking Technology funded by NEDO.

Rob Stevens

Rob Stevens is the Sector Lead Green Fuels of Power-to-X at Topsoe, a leading climate tech and engineering company that helps customers decarbonize. In his role, he is the go-to thought leader, driving market development of the cutting-edge Power-to-X technology. Rob has a MSc and PhD from Delft University of Technology. Before joining Topsoe in 2023, Rob had a role as technology opportunities expert in a green financing start-up. Before Rob held several ammonia production management roles, leading to Vice President roles in Technology Scouting, Decarbonization and Clean Ammonia Shipping Fuel.

Currently Rob also is board member at Horisont Energi, a clean ammonia and CO2 storage start-up; VP Past-President of the Ammonia Energy Association; and Director Clean Ammonia Innovation at the Institute of Sustainable Process Technology.

Kai-Chin Chang

Dr. Kai-Chin Chang works as a technical sales manager for the Heraeus Precious Metal in Hanau, Germany, since 2022, where she is responsible for applications of precious metal containing catalysts in hydrogen economy. With previous roles as account and program manager for Clariant and Johnson Matthey, she is a distinguished expert in the field of tail-gas emission control and gas purification with more than 10 years of international experience in the chemical and automotive industries. She received her chemistry diploma and doctoral degree in 2009 and 2012, respectively, at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Gelar Panji Gemilar

Gelar Panji Gemilar is a process engineer at Petrokimia Gresik. His formative years were spent in Yogyakarta, where he developed a keen interest in chemical engineering. He pursued this passion at Universitas Gadjah Mada, earning both his bachelor's and master’s degrees in chemical engineering. Gelar's professional journey began in the Ammonia and Urea plant, where he was an integral part of the operational team. He now leads a team focusing on the process evaluation and quality control of the Ammonia, Urea, and Water Treatment plant processes, particularly emphasizing the Urea final product. His leadership and innovation focused on optimizing systems for controlling the quality of both the process and the final products, significantly contributing to the industry's advancement.

Aleksandra Gavrilovic-Wohlmuther

Dr. Aleksandra Gavrilovic-Wohlmuther is currently serving as the Head of the R&D department at Christof Group SBN. After studying physics at the University of Novi Sad, she obtained her PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Vienna, investigating physical and chemical aspects in the development of novel metallic materials. Her scientific expertise in the fields of materials science and electrochemistry is reflected in numerous scientific publications and books. Since 2020, Dr. Aleksandra Gavrilovic-Wohlmuther has been committed to improving technologies and processes in the fertiliser industry by introducing innovations into the operation and monitoring of production processes, benefiting a wide range of stakeholders along the supply chain.

Manuel Prohaska

Manuel Prohaska holds a master's degree in Materials Science and a PhD in Corrosion Science from University of Leoben (Austria) and has joined the urea industry in 2011, when he started to work at BHDT. After different roles in sales and product development, Manuel became Managing Director in 2018. 1.5 years later he left BHDT and joined Schoeller ­Bleckmann Nitec (SBN). At SBN, he had a double role as Sales & Commercial Managing Director. In June 2022, Manuel founded his own company MPC² ; MPC² is specialized in conventional and advanced corrosion-testing methods and various, specific business consultancy services. 

Muhammad Nauman

Muhammad Nauman holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and boasts over 22 years of diversified experience in Engineering Design, Project & Turnaround Management, and Mechanical Maintenance. He has led numerous reliability enhancement and capacity augmentation projects within the Fertilizer Industry and is currently leading the Mechanical Engineering department of Pakistan's largest Industrial complex. 

Mohamed Shahid

As the Strategic Product Manager at SICK Engineering GmbH in Germany, Mr Shahid spent the last 1.5 years enhancing particle measurement solutions, bolstering the global sales channels, and supporting customers worldwide. His decade-long professional journey, anchored by a master's in engineering management, has been primarily within SICK group, focusing on managing analyzers and gas flow meters for Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS) across diverse industries in the Middle East. Combining technical expertise with strategic acumen, he has consistently driven innovation and efficiency in analytical instrumentation.

Olivia Chung

Olivia Chung is a Senior Engineer with Quest Integrity's Advanced Engineering group based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her experience includes metallurgical field support, metallurgical condition assessments, failure analysis, materials testing and general fitness-for-service support for static pressure equipment, pressure piping and rotating equipment. Olivia has a BE(Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Canterbury and is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand. 

So Komada

So Komada is working in the field of process engineering for 10 years. He obtained his diploma in industrial chemistry and the following Master’s degree at the Doshisha University. During his career, he gained expertise specialty ammonia and methanol plants. In the recent past, he has been responsible for engineering and commissioning work for various fertilizer projects and also the several Pre-FEED studies for clean fuel projects.

Emmanuel Rohart

Dr Emmanuel Rohart, PhD in Catalysis, is General Manager of Enercat a French SME. Expert in Catalysis for automotive applications, he is the co-author of more than 30 patents in the field of rare earths based washcoat materials. During the past 10 years in Enercat, he actively supported the development of advanced catalytic solutions for Environmental Applications (DeNOx , DeCOV, DeNH3 stationary applications, DeN2O from Nitric Acid plants). More recently he initiated new developments within Enercat for the production of better and cost competitive catalysts for the respective e-CH4, e-CH3OH and NH3 cracking processes. 

Christoph Wöber

Christoph Wöber graduated as a mechanical engineer at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. Since 1993 he works at WIKA, focused on instrumentation for nonstandard applications. He started in sales as proposal engineer. During the past three decades, Christoph has taken over different responsibilities, like product management, key account management and technical consultant. He has headed a sales support team supporting instrumentation companies on their supplies with added value by WIKA diaphragm seals into O&G and CPC projects all over the world. He now works as an Application Specialist supporting the WIKA project business organization in engineered solutions and special products needed to full fill the requirements given by process data and specified in the instrument data sheets.

Vivek Kumar Verma

Vivek Kumar Verma has a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and an M.Tech in Hydrocarbon engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He has around 7 years’ experience in process industry, ammonia plant designing and operations. He has expertise in process models (sequential and equation-oriented mode), remote process monitoring, machine learning.

Norbert Ringer

Norbert Ringer graduated as Chemical Engineer from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany, and started his career in the catalyst business with Süd-Chemie AG in 1990. He has more than 33 years of experience in the field of syngas catalysts for hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol production having held various roles in R&D, technical service, sales and product management. From 2012 - 2018 he had the position of head of sales Syngas in EMEA. Since 2018, he acts as global methanol industry director and has the role of global Syngas industry expert

Philipp Harings

Philipp Harings joined Ineos and it’s site in Cologne in 2009 as a dual apprentice. After completing his study as a chemical engineer he worked in the site’s internal turnaround management. Within five years he was involved in four major turnarounds in various supporting to leading roles. The turnarounds mainly concerned the ammonia and nitric acid plants. Therefore, Philipp seized the opportunity in 2018 and moved into the ammonia and nitric acid business as a plant manager assistant. In 2023 he was promoted to being the responsible plant manager for both plants.

Rohit Khurana

Rohit Khurana is a Technology Manager in KBR’s Ammonia & Syngas Technology division.   Based in London, as a Technology manager, he is responsible for business development for Blue H2 & syngas projects globally.  He has been associated with KBR from the past 14 years and have been involved in execution of BED packages, proposals, revamps and technical services along with assistance in commissioning and stabilization of syngas plants.   Rohit attained his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT- Delhi) in 2007. 

Pranshi Goyal

Pranshi joined CRU’s Nitrogen team in August 2022, after completing her MSc. in Economics from London School of Economics. She is responsible for the Urea market analysis at CRU.

Aurelia Pipino

Aurelia Pipino is a Fired Heater&Ammonia Cracking Technology Manager with over 19 years' experience in design, detailed engineering and project execution of Hydrogen and Syngas Plants, specialised in the design of Furnaces for the Petrochemical and Refinery Industry. Between 2005 and 2014 she worked in Technip-KTI where she gains strong experience in Hydrogen and Syngas licensed technologies. In 2014 Mrs Pipino joined Casale dealing with technologies for Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen plants. Since 2019 her activities have focused on the development of customized furnaces design solution for the entire Casale Technology portfolio as well as on the development of the entire Ammonia Cracking Technology.

Svenja Blechmann

Svenja Blechmann has a Master of Engineering and is department manager for the department Chemical Plant Components in Steinmuller Engineering. She has 9 years of professional experience and executed several projects in fertilizer industry as project manager and process engineer. Her main tasks include the preparation of offers, process design and project management of orders in the product area of chemical plant components. 

Luca Edoardo Viganò

Luca always wanted to be a fireman, but, who knows why, he enrolled in the faculty of chemical engineering at the Politecnico of Milan.

After graduating in 2009 Luca joined Saipem where he started his career as a process engineer for Saipem's Snamprogetti urea technology.

He had the opportunity to interact with people of great experience both within Saipem and abroad, acquiring knowledge on the urea process itself and gaining experience in the related mechanical and site aspects of the job.

Now Luca is Technology Leader for the Snamprogetti™ Urea Technology.

Zeeshan Ansari

Zeeshan has been associated with Engro since 2014 conducting business development activities in international and domestic energy markets. Besides securing development rights for renewable projects in the province of Balochistan, he was leading the efforts for the development of the B2B power purchase market. He worked towards multifaceted tasks including the RE policy framework, securing rights for 400 MW Renewable Energy Park and spearheading sales efforts for aggregation of power purchase intents from the industry. In addition to this, he worked extensively with provincial Waste Management Companies to secure rights for utilization of Waste, to conduct feasibility for an economically sustainable solution. In his current role Zeeshan is leading the Sales team of Chlor Alkali products and in parallel exploring green initiatives for sustainable development of the company.

Mika Tienhaara

Mika Tienhaara is the Head of Commercial for Nordics in Technip Energies and based in Oslo, Norway. Mika has close to two decades of experience in process technologies and systems from project management, technology development and qualifications, commercial activities, global operations and executive management. He has more than 20 published technical papers and is the holder of one patent.Mika has an M.Sc. in Energy Technology from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden and he is also an honorary doctor in Entrepreneurship from the Azteca University in Mexico.

Ermanno Filippi

Chemical Engineer, started in Solvay, then joined Casale in 1985 as Process Engineer. Involved in Projects related to revamping and New plants for Ammonia and Methanol production. Now responsible for the application and development of Technology in the Company.

Florian Knaus

Florian Knaus studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt and completed his PhD degree in January 2022 with a focus in Technical Chemistry. In the beginning of 2021, he started his position as Applied Technology Manager at Umicore. Since then, he has been responsible for design and all technical questions regarding Umicore's ammonia oxidation catalysts. Additionally, he is in charge for the product development.

Mohamed Farouk

Mohamed Farouk is responsible for the operation of Nitric Acid plant as a sector head in Abu Qir Fertilizers Company in Egypt. He has a PhD degree in chemical engineering and experience of about 20 years in the fertilizers sector. He participated in planning for shutdowns, follow up for feasibility studies for different projects. He always tries to reach the highest levels of achievement on the industrial and humanitarian levels. 

David Inward

David has been active in the the field of gas analysis for 30 years, originally for Hartmann & Braun UK before moving to their headquarter in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2009, David joined Sick AG working in their division focussing on flow metering and gas analytical solutions. He helped to establish subsidiary offices in Turkey and India. In 2019, David took on a global role of Industry Manager, Chemicals, with a strong focus on fertiliser applications. David is originally from the UK, but has spent many years living and working in mainland Europe.

Walter Giacopini

Walter Giacopini graduated in 2003 in Chemical Engineering in Padova (Italy).

He has been working for 20 years in CO2 Removal System design for various applications. He has gained experience from the Process Design up to the commissioning and start-up of those plants.

He engineered a new concept for Biogas Upgrading System to Biomethane, also contributing to plant procurement and commercialization of the Upgrading skids.

He is now focusing on the Flue Gas Carbon Capture and is responsible of the Business Development in Giammarco-Vetrocoke.

Denise Caspar

After 17 years in the world of seamless pipes in the Offshore Pipeline Oil & Gas industry, Denise Caspar took over the role as Business Development Manager, CPI and Energy, at Mannesmann Stainless Tubes. As a Dipl.-Engineer of Material Sciences the material behaviour of hot & cold finished austenitic stainless steels, nickel-base alloys, (Super)Duplex and Bi-Metallic (Double­Wall) seamless tubes are her passion. The identification of specialised solutions for the chemical process industry/ petroleum refinery industry (downstream business) in caustic environments is key for her.

Mukesh Ahlavadi

Mukesh Ahlavadi, Global Director for the Chemicals Market at NobelClad, holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's in Business Management from Grand Ecole HEC Paris. With over 20 years of expertise in chemical, downstream, and refining fabrication, he has excelled in various roles, including Production and Project Management, Sales, and Marketing within a leading Global Pressure Vessel Manufacturing company. Specializing in Explosion Bonding and Pressure Vessel Manufacturing, Mukesh serves as a trusted advisor to Licensors, End Users, EPCs, and Fabricators in the Fertilizer, Petrochemical, and Oil & Gas Industry, offering valuable insights and strategic guidance

Henrik Larsen

Henrik Larsen is Vice President, Sustainable Technology Solutions at KBR, with responsibility for the KBR Clean technologies for ammonia and hydrogen production as well as the fertilizer solutions from KBR. Besides the daily technical/commercial operational responsibility, Mr. Larsen is working on the continued development and expansion of the KBR technology portfolio for sustainable solutions. Prior to joining KBR, Mr. Larsen held several international leadership roles in technology and production companies, with a strong focus on technology and project development and has more than 20 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. Mr. Larsen has a MSc Chemical Engineering degree from the Technical University of Denmark.

Raimon Perea Marin

Raimon Marin is Technology Manager Green Ammonia, Sustainable Technology Solutions at KBR, with responsibility for the KBR green ammonia solutions from KBR. Besides the daily technical/commercial operational responsibility, Mr Marin is working on the continued development and expansion of the KBR technology portfolio for sustainable solutions.  

Prior to joining KBR, Mr Marin held several international roles in technology and consulting companies, with a strong focus on catalyst and process technologies, and project development and has more than 15 years of experience in the syngas and oil & gas industry.  

Mr Marin has a MSc Industrial Engineering degree from the Polytechnical University of Valecia (Spain) and a Doctorate degree in industrial catalysis from Cardiff University (UK). 

Lino Porro

Master in Chemical Engineering – Politecnico di Milano – Italy

Urea Junior Process Engineer – Saipem 2 years

Urea Process Engineer – Tecnimont 6 years

Urea Process manager – Casale 6 years

Urea Technology Manager – Yara 17 years

Wide experience in urea field, from innovation/R&D up to main contracting for grass root plants

Mony Belon

Mony Belon has ten years of experience in fertilizer market intelligence. She started out her career focusing on Brazil to expand her analyses to global markets. Since then, she has led teams in fertilizer price assessment and forecast, innovation research and strategy for industry leaders before joining CRU as Nitrogen Analysis Lead.

Charlie Stephen

Charlie joined CRU’s London office in July 2023 as a Senior Analyst to lead the Fertilizer Cost & Emissions Team. Charlie is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a decade of experience working in engineering and operations functions within manufacturing plants in the Australian fertilizer industry.

Adityo Dwiputra Sunarto

A process engineer at a state-owned fertilizer company in Gresik (Indonesia) that produces fertilizer and chemical products. Ammonia, urea, NPK and acid production dominate the company's overall production. Currently, he holds the position of Process & Quality Control Manager supervising process engineers and QA/QC laboratories. The complexity of 31 production plants requires understanding the entire plant operation to prevent breakdown, troubleshoot problems and provide advice regarding its performance. On the other hand, he is also responsible for controlling the quality of raw materials and production processes, including issuing COA. To improve the production process, he often formed research teams to study specific subjects.

Christina Schmideder

Christina Schmideder studied mechanical engineering, specializing in process technology, at the DHBW Mannheim in cooperation with Linde. She also holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering and management from the Technical University Munich (TUM) and has been working with Linde for over 15 years. In her current role as Project Manager, she is responsible for the project execution of Hydrogen & Syngas plants. Christina's earlier experiences at Linde Engineering included working as a static equipment and package unit engineer before focusing on large, cryogenic storage tanks for over ten years as a Lead Engineer on various projects and as a construction site superintendent.

Philippe Goossens

Philippe Goossens dedicated his professional life to engineer anti-pollution systems worldwide for over 45 years. Philippe started back in 1978 with Monsanto Enviro Chem Systems (MECS) covering sulfuric acid, chlorine and fertilizer industry with their specific systems as BRINK® fiber bed mist eliminator, HRS systems and DYNAWAVE® scrubbing systems.In 1995, Philippe started to work with SOCREMATIC a highly reputable scrubber manufacturing company located as CERGY in FRANCE which he added as the managing director 2022.Nowadays, due to his vast experience, he is still active in SOCREMATIC as senior consultant.

Jakir Mansoori

Jakir Mansoori has a diploma in Chemical Engineering from Kota, India. He has 27 years of experience in Ammonia process technology especially KBR Ammonia technology. During this time, he has commissioned 4 KBR Ammonia Plants in India and Nigeria, 1 Uhde Ammonia Plant and Haldor-Topsoe Ammonia Plant. His experience in plant commissioning has helped him to successfully carryout various troubleshooting activities in his career.

Novi Ariharnomo

Novi Ariharnomo is Operations & Site Head of PAU Ammonia Plant in Indonesia.

Rafael Bernat