BIOGRAPHY
Elmo
Nasato is a process engineer specializing in sulfur recovery, amine treating
and sour water processing. He has more than 35 years experience in the sulfur
recovery industry, including experience with design, retrofit, start-up and
optimization of sulfur recovery units,
sulfur handling units, amine units, sour water stripper units, and tail gas
cleanup units. On-site field activities
have included support of construction activities, turnaround assistance and operator training.
Elmo
graduated from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with a B.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering (1987) with an option in
Management Science. He currently is the
president of Nasato Consulting Ltd. In addition, he is the lead
instructor and serves on the Brimstone
Sulfur Recovery Symposium Advisory Committee and the Technical Advisory Committee for the Laurance Reid Gas
Conditioning Conference, and has served
on the Board of Directors for Alberta Sulphur Research. Elmo has also
taught courses in the Chemical
Engineering departments of the University of Toronto and University of Waterloo. He has been awarded eight patents
for SRU operation, oxygen enrichment and
sulfur degassing technologies, has published 42 papers and has made over
74 presentations at conferences worldwide.