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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.

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Taylor Archer – Senior Sales Manager, Syngas – has over 30 years’ experience in the Syngas industry including operations/engineering/project management experience in ammonia plants and catalyst sales and technical service expertise

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Ken Wohlgeschaffen has been with Chevron for 19 years, based at their Richmond Refinery, in various roles in the Technical and Operations Departments. He is currently the Team Leader for Hydrogen Plants supporting the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the plants located in Chevron's North American and overseas refineries and complex facilities, including operated and non-operated joint ventures. Prior to joining Chevron, Ken spent 7 years at the Exxon Chemical Canada (now Nutrien) Redwater fertilizer complex. And 8 years with FMC (now Evonik), a major hydrogen peroxide producer. Ken received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Calgary in 1989.

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George Galloway has been with Chevron for 15 years, based at their Pascagoula Refinery, in various roles in the Technical Department.  He is currently the Hydrogen Senior Process Engineer supporting the safe, reliable, and efficient operation primarily of Chevron’s North American plants while also supporting both operating and non-operating joint ventures overseas.  Previous roles within Chevron include plant support engineer (Hydrogen, Alky, Crude, and Hydrotreating), Senior Process Engineer, Heat Exchanger Specialist, and Process Engineering Team Lead.  George received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University in 2009.

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Marco Mazzamuto Carlucci holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, finalized in September 2012.

In 2013, he started his career in Casale Syngas Dept. firstly as Process Engine involved in the process design, commissioning and start-up of Ammonia plants and afterwards , Senior Process Engineer leading several Feasibility Studies, Basic, Detail engineering design project and relevant site activities. In 2021 he was appointed Ammonia Technology Leader in the Syng, Department, involved in the development and innovation of Ammonia technologies and their evolution into products up to market introduction.

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Tomohiro Masuda is Senior Engineer of Marketing & Engineering Group in Business Development Division, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation, in Hiroshima, Japan. He has 17 years’ experience in the design and application engineering of centrifugal compressor for new unit& revamp project. Tomohiro Masuda has B.S. degree in material engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology and M.S. degree in molecular and material sciences from Kyushu University in Japan.

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David Keen is a Metallurgist with over 45yrs experience in fertilizer and explosives manufacturing facilities across 12 countries globally. David is a Subject Matter Expert on equipment integrity management and has developed a series of training modules focused on preventing equipment failures through experiential learning and team problem solving sessions.

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Joao Guilherme Dessi holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Materials Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos. He has been with ENGEMASA for 8 years, specializing in manufacturing cast and centrifugally cast parts, alloy development, and quality control. He focuses primarily on high-temperature testing, failure analysis, and remaining life assessment. Since 2022, he has led the Research & Development Department, developing and optimizing alloys for extreme environments, such as carburizing, oxidizing, corrosive, and high-temperature conditions. He holds a high-temperature alloy patent and several paper publications in peer-reviewed Journals. Mr Dessi also collaborates with universities on alloy development projects and provides technical training for future materials engineers.

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Samuel Sladaritz is a Process Engineer with 3 years of experience in water treatment at a Methanol Production facility. He graduated from Lamar University in May of 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Afterwards, he worked for an engineering design firm for 3 years primarily focused on PSV sizing calculations before receiving a job at Natgasoline in 2022.

Working at Natgasoline, Sam has spent his time troubleshooting and optimizing water systems such as Demineralization, Filtered Raw Water, Cooling water, Boilers. He has become well versed in water treatment systems through his experience at Natgasoline, greatly reducing utility operating cost during his stay.

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Alex Scheerder studied Applied Physics and graduated in 1985 at the Technical University of Eindhoven.He started in 1986 as a Research Associate at the NDT (Non destructive Testing) Department of DSM Research in the Netherlands, involved in research and development of NDT- inspection techniques for (petro)-chemical installations (static equipment as well as storage tanks) at the DSM site which includes amongst others several fertilizers plants such as ammonia, urea, nitric acid, sulfuric acid.From 1992 Alex headed the NDT Department of DSM Engineering-Stamicarbon, responsible for ND-inspections of all chemical process installations within the DSM Company and also for Stamicarbon Clients worldwide (Urea plants),In 2001 he joined Stamicarbon as a Mechanical Lead Engineer within the Services Department and later the Urea Technology Department, responsible for all mechanical aspects of the Stamicarbon Urea process. As from 2007 Alex heads the Urea Mechanical Group of the Urea Technology Department of Stamicarbon. The Mechanical Urea group delivers services with respect to design and engineering of urea equipment (PDP packages), in-service corrosion inspections and QA/QC during manufacturing of critical HP equipment. As from 2018 he holds the position of Principal Engineer within Stamicarbon.

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Frank Engli, P.Eng., is the Regional Group Lead – Canada for Becht’s Reliability, Maintenance, Turnarounds and Capital Projects Group and resides in Edmonton, Alberta. Frank has over 40 years of experience working in operation settings at six different sites across Canada on project, maintenance, HSSE and turnaround management and continuous improvement processes in the energy, refinery, and petrochemical industry. He has extensive expertise in solving site problems and a proven track record to implement change and create sustaining management programs and processes including improved business controls practices and contracts management.

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Syed Khizar Ailia Naqvi is a Chemical Engineer currently serving as Senior Executive Production (Coordination) at Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited (FFC-II), based at the Goth Machhi plant site in Pakistan. With over 16 years of extensive experience in the Operations Department, he has been an integral part of the company, excelling as a Lead Engineer at Ammonia, Urea, and Utilities Plants. He is proficient in plant operations, process monitoring and optimization, plant commissioning, and team leadership. He is well-versed in Process Safety, HSEQ, IMS and Risk Survey Audits, and holds NEBOSH-IGC, IOSH Managing Safely, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certifications.

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Kraig Simpson is the Vice President of Technology for Rotating Machinery Services (RMS). He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University. Prior to RMS, Kraig worked for ExxonMobil for 10 years. His professional experience has been primarily focused on turnaround, maintenance, and project support. Much of his experience is related to leveraging technology and innovative solutions to reinvent maintenance techniques for turbomachinery. He has applied the virtual assembly philosophy for numerous applications including turbomachinery overhauls and brownfield project execution.

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Jesus is a Chemical Engineer by the University of Valladolid with a PhD on Chemical Reaction Engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund.Jeths has been dedicated professionally to the fields of modeling, simulation and digitalisation in the process industry.Currently he is a Digital Process Engineer at Stamicarbon where he is involved in the design of dynamic and static modelling libraries, the delivery of Operator Training Simulators and the development of digital products.

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Winandyo Mangkoto is a graduate of Diponegoro University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has dedicated his professional journey to PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang since 2014. Initially serving as an Operations Engineer for two years, Winandyo currently works as a Process Engineer. In the dynamic world of process engineering, merging academic skill with hands-on experience, He is driven to continually enhance operations, ensuring excellence and compliance in every facet of his work. Alfredo’s Energy Auditor and Hazops Leader certifications underscore his commitment to energy efficiency and process safety.

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With a bachelor’s in management from Tridinanti University and a vocational high school background, Dian Munawar's professional journey has flourished at PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang since 2006, where he excels as an Instrument Engineer. Already certified in Instrument Technician Level 2 and Hazops Analysis, he can combine theoretical and practical expertise. In the dynamic field of instrumentation, he ensures precision and safety. His commitment to excellence is his work principle, as he continues to contribute to the success of PT. Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang's operations with expertise and loyalty.

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Adil Pervaiz is a mechanical engineer, currently working at Fauji Fertilizer Company Plantsite, Goth Machhi, Pakistan. He holds extensive experience in engineering assessment of plant modifications, design of static equipment & piping and fitness for service evaluations to ensure plant integrity & operational reliability. He has undertaken numerous modification projects in his career to enhance plant reliability and improve service factor. He is skilled in stress & flexibility analysis of piping and has hands-on experience in use of advanced engineering software to resolve plant problems. Apart from that, he is a certified API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector (API).

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Ali El Sibai earned his PhD in Process Systems Engineering from Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He gained extensive experience in large-scale process modeling and optimization during his work as a scientific researcher at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, focusing on renewable energy production and storage. He joined Stamicarbon three and a half year ago as a modeling engineer and since then, he has been involved in the development and execution of projects related to digital products.