Shruti Kashyap

Shruti has joined CRU as Analysis Lead – Nitrogen responsible for spearheading nitrogen analysis at CRU. She brings extensive experience in the field of industry research, analysis and consulting across various sectors including chemicals and commodities. She has spent more than ten years with leading organisations such as Peabody, Anglo American and Ernst & Young with exposure to varied projects including demand/supply modelling, price forecasting, cost curve analysis, financial modelling and due diligence. Shruti has worked internationally in Singapore and London with her latest stint at Peabody’s head office in the US. Shruti has Bachelors and Masters in Economics from Delhi University, India along with professional courses from Oxford University, London and Gordon Institute of Business Sciences, South Africa.

Alexander Derricott

Alex Derricott is currently the cost analyst in the fertilizer analysis team, working across a diverse range of fertilizer cost reports. Alex has also worked as part of the Phosphate Fertilizer analysis team, that produces the Phosphate Fertilizer Market Outlook, Phosphate Rock Market Outlook and the Phosphate Cost Report. Alex joined CRU in 2016 after previously working for IHS Markit and Curzon Capital. He has a Master’s degree in Energy Trade and Finance from the Costas Grammenos Centre for Shipping at Cass Business School.

Kevin Rouwenhorst

Kevin Rouwenhorst graduated from University of Twente (The Netherlands) in 2016, with a MSc degree in Chemical & Process Engineering. He continued research at the University of Twente with a PhD project on ‘Plasma-catalytic ammonia synthesis’. During the final year of his PhD research, he works part-time as Innovation Engineer at Proton Ventures and as Technology Manager at the Ammonia Energy Association (AEA), with the aim to accelerate the responsible use of low carbon ammonia as a zero carbon fuel and hydrogen carrier.

Dr Hadj Ali Gueniche

Hadj Ali Gueniche graduated from Rouen University with a Master’s Degree in Combustion, and received a PhD from Nancy-ENSIC University in 2007. he joined John Zink Hamworthy in 2007 combustion as a Test and Process Engineer for Process Burners Group. Since 2012, he has led the engineering group for the EMEA region for process burners. In 2019, Mr Gueniche was assigned to lead the smart combustion business development within EMEA region. He is the author of five 5 scientific articles and holds two industrial Patents.

Julie Ashcroft

Julie Ashcroft has worked at Johnson Matthey for over 8 years, graduating from the University of Cambridge with an MEng in chemical engineering. She is currently a Senior Process Engineer in the ammonia and nitric acid engineering team, with a focus on ammonia cracking process development. Her responsibilities include technical oversight of catalyst design, operational troubleshooting and process development.

Mohamed Kamal Mohamed Ibrahim

Mohamad Kamal Mohamad Ibrahim received his BSc degree in chemical engineering from Alexandria University in Egypt in 2002. He started his career in the fertilizers industry in 2004 after joining Abu Qir Fertilizers Company as shift engineer. Later Mr Ibrahim worked as a process engineer and in 2012, he was appointed as urea plant manager in Abu Qir 1.

Qazi Wasif Ud Din

Qazi Wasif Ud Din holds an Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology. Mr Ud Din joined Engro Fertilizer’s as an Operations Engineer in 2016. Due to his sheer focus and operational insight he quickly grasped the knowledge of ammonia plant. He was recently involved in the commissioning of BASF Feed Gas Enrichment Unit at their Site. During his overall tenure at Engro he has been part of multiple projects of Plant Reliability, Efficiency Improvement and Skill Enhancement of people. 

Klemens Wawrzinek

Klemens Wawrzinek holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. After working with Enginion AG as R&D Engineer & Team Lead Thermodynamics he joined Linde in 2006. He worked almost 12 years as Process & Lead Engineer in Hydrogen and Syngas Plants. His field of work spanned from project development & optimization studies over project execution to commissioning, start-up, & performance test, including HyCO and Ammonia plants. Since 2017 he is Project Manager in Business Development and Technology in the product line Hydrogen and Syngas of Linde Engineering.

Daniel Barnett

More than 40 years of experience in execution of Furnace related work. Currently serving as VP of Engineering for BD Energy Systems, LLC. in Houston, TX, USA.

Experience includes design of high-temperature reaction furnaces concentrating on steam-methane reformer furnaces for ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, & GTL plants, and cracking furnace designs for ethylene plants. Experience includes commissioning, start-up, and field advisory services on all types of furnaces in grassroots plants, furnace revamps, and plant expansions.

BS Chemical Engineering, 1981, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Member of AIChE.
Member Ethylene Producers Conference – Maintenance & Reliability Subcommittee
Named in five furnace-related Patents plus two Patents Pending.

Tatiana Hentrich

Important Milestones: - Study in Moscow, Russia: MATI - Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky Dipl.-Ing. - Doctoral Dissertation in Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, Dr.-Ing., Topic: “Development of a new Ni- Based superalloy (VDM Alloy 780) based on Alloy 718” - Hermann-Blenk Scientific Prize for the doctoral dissertation - Postdoc at Technical University Braunschweig, Germany - Manager Business Unit mechanical Engineering, Tools and Automotive, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Germany

Johannes Dammeier

Dr Johannes Dammeier has a PhD in Physical Chemistry (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, 2011). He has 6 years of experience in academic science, mainly in the field of reaction kinetics of nitrogen oxide forming reactions in hydrocarbon combustion processes. Dr Dammeier joined thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (former ThyssenKrupp Uhde) in October 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Process Engineer and Process Lead Engineer for basic and detail engineering of nitric acids plants. Dr Dammeier also served as a Commissioning engineer for NA-plant start-ups in Egypt and Turkey. In 2016, Johannes joined the Research and Development group for the nitric acid technology.

Paolo Brunengo

Paolo Brunengo is Director, Ammonia & Syngas technology, KBR. Based in London, he is responsible for business development for ammonia revamp projects and K-Green, KBRs Green Ammonia technology. Paolo joined KBR in 2019 and has 24 years of industry experience across various companies including Casale, Wood, Johnson Matthey, Maire Tecnimont. Paolo studied B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from MIP-Politecnico Di Milano, Italy and master’s degree in Engineering Technology from ENSTA ParisTech, France.

René Braun

Founder and CEO of the Grandperspective. René Braun has been working in development and application of FTIR remote sensing systems for the last fifteen years. As part of the development team at Bruker Optics, Ettlingen, René Braun has worked in close contact with the analytical task forces ATF. His expertise is in fundamental research for new applications, system development and training of operators. Learning from the experience of operators in the field and listening closely to the needs and expectations in the industry, he designed the scanfeld early warning solution.

Vaclav Jurcik

Vaclav has obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Clausthal University of Technology for his work in the area of organocatalysis. After postdoctoral stays at the University of Tokyo and University of St. Andrews, he joined Johnson Matthey where he was responsible for development and scale up of catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and later for catalyst sales into pharma industry in the UK and Eastern Europe.

In 2017 Vaclav joined Clariant as sales account manager for polypropylene catalysts and commercialized novel phthalate free catalyst in Innovene PP process. Since 2020 Vaclav is responsible for sales of Clariant’s complete catalyst portfolio for production of hydrogen, methanol, ammonia, and related digital services.

Through his career, Vaclav authored of 16 peer-reviewed articles and 4 patent applications in the field of catalysis.

Alexander Dyukov

Alexander Dyukov has two higher educations: in Engineering and Economics (project management). He worked as Chief Technologist for Mineral Fertilizers at a fertilizer plant (2001-2014) and as a Technical Support Sales Representative in Umicore (2014-2015). He joined Krastsvetmet in 2015 and currently heads the Nitrogen Business of the company.

Kathrin Rodermund

Kathrin Rodermund studied Chemistry at the TU Dortmund University and graduated with a PhD at the Institute of Fluid Process Engineering at Ruhr-Universität Bochum University. She joined thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions in 2012 and started work in the Technology, Innovation and Sustainability Department and worked on various R&D topics. In 2014 she focussed on solid phosphate and nitrate fertilizers. Currently she is working on the development of digital services for nitrate fertilizers.

Ali Haider

Ali Haider is an Ammonia Process Engineer working in Corporate Technical Services department of Fatima Fertilizer Company in Pakistan. He has been working in current role for 3.5+ years with experience in Ammonia plant performance monitoring, analysis, optimization, process safety and revamp studies. He was the lead process engineer involved in project of development of upgraded emergency shutdown system at an old ammonia plant which is going to be presented now

Ali Afzal

Deepak Shetty

Deepak Shetty is an experienced chemical process Engineer with a Global MBA from European School Of management in Berlin. He brings with him almost 18 years of global technology and Industry Experience which includes worldwide Business development, Sales & Account management & corporate development roles for various Global corporations like Thyssenkrupp Uhde, KBR & Wood group in Sectors like Fertilizers, Petrochemicals & Industrial specialties. He recently joined Stamicarbon (The Technology licensing company of Maire Tecnimont Group) and will be leading Commercial Business and sales Contracting for Green Hÿdrogen / Ammonia for Europe, MENA & SEA regions.

Paul Jorissen

Paul Jorissen obtained a BSc degree in Control Technology at the Heerlen University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands in 1987.

After his graduation he joined DSM where he held several positions like software engineer, project lead and maintenance coordinator in the instrumentation and process control discipline. Between 2002 and 2014 he held the position of process control engineer for both naphtha crackers at SABIC Geleen.

In 2014 he joined Stamicarbon. In his current role as senior process control engineer within the Advance Products and Services department, he is providing technical support on the design, construction and commissioning of the instrumentation-based products, e.g. leak detection systems, N/C meters and high-pressure valves.

Rene Eckert

Rene Eckert studied Chemistry at Technical University Darmstadt and obtained his PhD at Ruhr-Universität Bochum while working at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research.

He joined Clariant in 2017 as R&D group leader in the Syngas Applications department. His group focuses on the development of new ammonia synthesis catalysts.

Simone Gamba

Simone Gamba graduated in Chemical Engineering (M. Sc. - 2006) and earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2010) from Politecnico di Milano. After a postdoctoral research fellowship, he joined Casale in 2014 as a Process Engineer and he currently holds the position of Deputy Head of Liquid & Solid Tech. Department (R&D Division).

Mr Gamba focuses on melamine technology development as well as collaborates with the Process Division of the company for melamine plants’ design and start-up.

Giovanni Genova

Giovanni Genova graduated in chemical engineering from Milan Polytechnic in 2011. He has been working with CASALE since 2011, initially as Technology Engineer. He currently holds a position of Process Engineer in the Syngas Process Department. Mr Genova is engaged in the ammonia and methanol plant revamping fields.

Dennis Chafiâ

Muhammad Adnan Tariq

Muhammad Adnan Tariq is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. Mr. Tariq started his career in 2008 from Engro Fertilizers, where he has worked as Process Engineer (Ammonia & Utilities), Business Development Engineer, Lean Six Sigma and Business & Economics Engineer. Later he joined Sahara Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) in 2017, where he is currently working as Staff Process Engineer for Methanol & Other Syngas plants.

Martin Joksch

The anglophile Austrian Mechanical Engineer is busy in plant engineering nearly everywhere between Argentina and Japan since 1980. Originally working in the nonferrous metal industry as project manager, he quickly changed to the environmental business, where he fights for his merits in both waste gas and water treatment for more than 3 decades. He shows a vast experience in process engineering, which is specifically asked for in the wide applications of his present employer.

Thomas Ithell

Thomas is a Senior Process Engineer in the Ammonia Technology Department at Johnson Matthey. Thomas graduated from Girton College, University of Cambridge with an MEng in Chemical Engineering before beginning a graduate development programme with Johnson Matthey. He has worked in a number of roles, including steam reforming product support and catalyst manufacturing plant engineer and currently performs ammonia process development, customer technical support and ammonia plant project activities.

Iain Hepplewhite

Iain Hepplewhite is the Business Deliveries Manager Nitro Tech. He manages the sales of PGM primary catalyst gauzes, N2O abatement projects and low-grade cleaning. He also provides technical support to the Nitro Tech Sales Team across the Nitric Acid industry. He has been in this role for 3 years. Prior to this Iain was the Senior Engineer looking after Nitro Tech R&D projects on the Chilton site. He manages the operations of the inhouse testing facilities with regards to development of PGM gauzes and N2O abatement technologies and had worked within the Vertec business for 18 years on R&D projects and plant operations.

Tom Davison

Tom Davison joined Johnson Matthey in 2013 after a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester, following a MEng in Chemical Engineering at the same institution. He is a Process Engineer working for the Syngas business in the Ammonia Technology Development team.

Matthieu Poulain

Matthieu Poulain is Key Account Manager Oill&Gas in METRON.

Before joining METRON, he has worked for 15 year in the area of Oil&Gas industry, especially 10 years as modernization specialist for Dresser-Rand, supporting European and Russian customers in their road to efficiency improvement of rotating equipment, and then 5 years as Services director for Siemens Energy.

Considering the biggest challenge humanity is facing today with climate change, Matthieu is really convinced that it is the right time to provide industrials with concrete digital solutions to make real the journey to energy sobriety.

Energy transition starts with energy savings.

Muhammad Umar Riaz

Muhammad Umar Riaz is Senior Process Engineer (Ammonia, Urea & Liquid CO2 plants) with more than 11-years of versatile experience in process monitoring, troubleshooting, design, process optimization & plant operation. His keen areas of interest are process optimization using advance monitoring tools, process simulations for understanding complex problems, performance optimization by benchmarking, process safety management using Hazop/LOPA/SIL determination techniques and resolution of plants issues using latest R&D globally.

Fawzy Shaaban Tayel

Fawzy Shaaban Tayel is Urea Maintenance Senior Engineer at Abu Qir Fertilizer and Chemical Company in Alexandria, Egypt since 2005. He has a BC of Mechanical Engineering from Alexandria University and a Six Sigma Master black belt.

Takahiro Yanagawa

Takahiro Yanagawa has been working in process engineering in Toyo Engineering Corporation since he graduated from a bachelor’s degree of chemical engineering of University of Tokyo, Japan in 1990.

He has engaged himself in various projects as a urea process licensor and he has various and wide range of expertise and experience of urea process including engineering of new licensing projects and revamping projects, research and development of urea process, commissioning, start-up and operation supervisor for urea plants.

He is project manager of research and development of Urea technology since 2019.

Olivier Brasseur

Dr. Olivier Brasseur has been in the refining, petrochemical and syngas industry for now 30 years. Olivier has a PhD from the Aachen technical university in mechanical engineering and heat transfer and started his career as a sales with the German company BALCKE-DÜRR GmbH where he became specialised in combustion Air Preheater and SCR DeNOx Systems. Following this, he moved to GEA ECOFLEX GmbH in 2002 where he served as Sales Director for the fully welded heat exchanger division before joining BD HEAT RECOVERY DIV. Inc. where he is now acting as Technical Director for the past 12 years. In his role at BD HEAT RECOVERY, Olivier is responsible for all technical and process aspects of the company but still enjoys the opportunity to be involved in plant adjustments, retrofits or trouble shooting.

Nenad Zecevic

Nenad Zecevic has a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. After finishing his studies he started working with Petrokemija d.d. as Main Production Engineer at their carbon black plant. In 2009 he moved into the fertilizer production at Petrokemija d.d. as Water Treatment Plant Manager in 2010 as Nitric Acid Plant Manager and in 2011 as Ammonia Plant Manager. In period from 2013 to 2018 Mr. Zecevic was acted as COO and CEO at Petrokemija Plc. In period from 2018 to 2019 Mr Zecevic was in SIEMENS as the Expert for Process Systems in Chemical Industries at PD Division. In 2019 he has been joined back to Petrokemija d.d. as the Production and Maintenance Director. Mr Zecevic has published several professional papers in different scientific and professional journals and presented at a number of conferences.

Svétoslav Valkov

Svétoslav Stéphane Valkov is a Business Development Director with strong background as process engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the prospecting and promotion of different engineering activities, the preparation of technical and commercial bids, the negotiation of agreements and also in the execution phase, including the design of equipment, the design of units, the technical audits, the commissioning and the starting of fertilizers units. He has deep knowledge on the fertilizer market and different special products as well he is endowed with a specialized experience in the Nitrogen fertilizers field, and in particular the Ammonium Nitrate, the Technical Grade Ammonium Nitrate, CAN, CAN+S, CNgg, Urea, Ammonia, MAP, DAP, NPK, etc. He has on the other hand, a thorough knowledge of the sizing of specific equipments such as reactors, evaporators, granulators, etc. Furthermore, Mr. Valkov achieved numerous audits in Eastern Europe, Russia, South Africa, Jordan, Senegal,…

Massimo Gori

Roberto Walder

Roberto Walder attended the School of Business and Administration in Switzerland and obtained his diploma in 1982. Since 1999 he has been working as Sales Manager at SMARTEC SA (Fiber Optic sensors and Structural Health Monitoring solutions). In his position of Application Line Manager Oil & Gas he has been dedicated to develop business and promote monitoring solutions to the Oil & Gas and Chemicals industry (in particular pipeline integrity monitoring).

Filippo Colucci

Filippo Colucci obtained a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Engineering in the Italy Genoa in 2000.His experience and expertise are the result of a process of career developed initially as a salesman for Italian and foreign markets of automatic welding equipment and then consolidated in the energy sector of the power generation and oil and gas as Country Manager Resident in India.

In 2013 he joined Stamicarbon as Equipment Supply Sales Manager responsible to contribute to the development of Equipment Supply Business and develop a plan in relation to the commercialization of Equipment Supply. From 2016 he became responsible of Global Fertilizer Market for Solex Thermal and in 2018 joined first Christof Group as Sales Director in Schoeller Blackmann Nitec (SBN) and later took over the responsibilities of providing the high level direction of fertilizer sales and marketing efforts worldwide for Christof Group.

David Inward

David Inward has been working in the the field of gas analysis for over 25 years, originally working for Hartmann & Braun UK before moving to their headquarter in Frankfurt, Germany. This was followed in 2003 by an international role for Emerson in their European headquarter in Switzerland. Since 2009, David has worked for Sick AG, helping to establish analytical business organisations within subsidiaries in Turkey and India. In July this year, David took on the role of Strategic Industry Manager for Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Refineries.The intention is to help Sick in establishing itself as the globally leading supplier of emissions monitoring solutions to these industries for dust, gas & ultrasonic flow.The sulphur recovery unit CEMS application on a refinery or gas processing plant makes an excellent reference point, since the proof that this notoriously difficult emission monitoring task can be successfully addressed means that nothing thereafter is likely to be considered unachievable!David is originally from the UK, but has spent many years living and working in mainland Europe. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic with his wife Blanka and their 3 children, Emma, Lucie & Eddie. He loves football, cricket, cycling, gardening and bird-watching and is a firm and active believer in protecting the environment.

Massimiliano Sala

Massimiliano Sala graduated in Chemical Engineering at Milan Polytechnic, Italy. He joined Snamprogetti, now Saipem, in 2005 and has been working as Process Engineer for ammonia-urea complexes. He has been involved in the basic and detailed design, commissioning and start-up, optimization and debottlenecking for various projects. He currently holds the position of Product Lead (Commercial) for the Syngas and Fertilizer business, with a strong focus on green and blue hydrogen and ammonia opportunities.

Alberto Serrafero

Jens Sehested

Jens Sehested received his master in 1991 and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1994 from Copenhagen University and worked as a scientist at Risø National Laboratory until 1998, where he joined Haldor Topsoe A/S. At Haldor Topsoe he worked as research/senior scientist, project/program manager, director and now holds a position as Fellow within the area of catalysts for synthesis gas including catalysts for gas preparation and various syntheses. Jens Sehested has authored more than 120 scientific publications.

Angela Philipp

Stefano Villa

Stefano Villa graduated in 2005 with a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering for Energy field at Politecnico di Milano in Italy.

He has more than 15 year experience in the heat echanger business and he joint Alfalval Olmi in 2010 as Senior Thermal Engineer.

Along his carrier in Alfalaval Olmi he moved to Key account Power and Regional Sales Manager position in 2014.He is currently responsible for sales in EMEA and Russian markets.

Rit Desai

Rit Desai is Manager of KBR’s nitric acid and fertilizers technology portfolio for grassroots and revamp opportunities including proprietary equipment, catalysts, and technical services. He is also responsible for managing MPP solution for plastic recycling and Critical Equipment at KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions.

He has 17 years of experience in the refinery, petrochemical and power industry with strong commercial, project management, operations and supply chain experience. Prior this, he worked with Larsen & Toubro as Chief Representative in Korea, Japan and Americas.

Rit graduated from National Institute of Technology - Trichy and holds a diploma in management. He is also a PMP certified project manager.

Partha Chowdhury

Partha Chowdhury is leading of KBR’s nitric acid, fertilizers and FCC refining technology mechanical portfolio including basic engineering, proprietary equipment supplies and technical services. Since joining KBR 11 years ago, he has been involved in the basic and detailed design, site erection and shutdown assistance for equipment’s in ammonia plants and FCC refining for various projects across the globe.

Partha graduated from National Institute of Technology – Durgapur in 2004 and was associated with Larsen and Toubro Limited and UOP before joining KBR in 2011.

Piyush Agnihotri

Yawar Abbas Naqvi

Ameet Kakoti

Ameet Kakoti is Technology Proposal Manager with Haldor Topsoe. Through more than a decade of experience and significant exposure in the industry, he brings deep technical expertise and commercial insights in ammonia and methanol technologies. He has been involved in most of the facets of technology sales and engineering including process development, design, commissioning and revamping.

Artur Wiser

Artur Wiser holds a PhD degree in chemistry und during his time at university he was working on new development and optimization of catalytic gauzes for ammonia oxidation. He joined Umicore in 2019 and is currently manager for Product and Process Development for catalytic gauzes.

Philipp Michel

René Becker

René Becker graduated from the University of Applied Sciences, Trier - Germany in 2019 with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a major in Automotive Engineering.

After graduating with honors, he joined John Zink Hamworthy Combustion as a CFD engineer within the process technology group. Since then, he has led the Computational Fluid Dynamics efforts within John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Luxembourg.In 2021, Mr. Becker continued leading the CFD efforts within the EMEA region and worked on various applications including process burners, flares, thermal oxidizers, gas combustion units and smart combustion solutions. Further on, he continues to support global R&D efforts.

Narmeen Habib

Narmeen Habib holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology. Narmeen started her career in 2016 from Fatima Fertilizer Company Limited and later moved to Pakistan Petroleum Limited. She joined Engro Fertilizers in 2020 as Assistant Planning Engineer. During her tenure so far at Engro, she successfully planned and stewarded mega turnarounds of both plants of the fertilizer complex in COVID-19 pandemic. Meticulous planning resulted in zero TRIR of both turnarounds. She received the Company’s Manufacturing Excellence Award for this exemplary task.

Syed Muhammad Haseeb Bukhari

S. M. Haseeb Bukhari holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Haseeb started his career at Engro Fertilizers as a maintenance engineer in 2010. In his tenure of 12 years, he has been associated with multiple machinery reliability enhancement projects, major machinery overhauls, troubleshooting of chronic plant issues and other special projects. He has also led multiple plant turnarounds during his period. Currently, he is serving as the Manager of Engro Fertilizer’s Ammonia Plant (Plant-01).

Isabella Muscionico

Isabella Muscionico graduated in Chemical Engineering from Milan Polytechnic in 2009. She joined CASALE SA in 2009 as Process Engineer in the Syngas Process Department. At present, she is the Methanol Technology Leader mainly focused on design and optimization of proprietary equipment as well as overall plant process schemes definition, simulation and optimization relevant to methanol technology.

Mahesh Gandhi

Mahesh Gandhi (MG) graduated in 1976 with B. Eng. from The M.S. University of Baroda, India and with M.S. in Chemical Engineering (1982) from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. He started his career as a Process Engineer with M.W. Kellogg (KBR) in Houston, Texas. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. Over 30 years of his work experience has been in Synthesis Gas Based chemicals like Ammonia, Hydrogen, Methanol and Fertilizers. Currently Mr Gandhi is a Sr. Process Manager with KBR in Houston.

Raquel Rodriguez

Raquel Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in Material Science from CEIT- BRTA and University of Navarra in 2007. From 2003 to 2010 she was a researcher in the Materials Department of CEIT-BRTA. Since 2011 she is part of TUBACEX GROUP in the metallurgical area of continuous improvement and new product development. She leads projects related with different applications, such as mid/downstream, fertilizers, subsea and high temperature.

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 directing urea and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technologies in the company.

Maximilian Aigner

Jacob Brinch Frennegaard

Jacob Brinch Frennegaard received his master in 2000 and Ph.D. in chemistry in 2004 from Aalborg University Esbjerg. He joined Topsoe in 2004 where he has worked as Service engineer, product manager, business development manager, account manager and priority agreement manager and now holds a position as ClearView™ manager where focus is to address plant reliability, plant performance, data quality and maintenance insight, catalyst management, knowledge transfer and debottlenecking/revamp investigation.