Peter Harrisson

Dr Harrisson has worked on CRU’s Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid analysis since joining the company in early 2011 and is Head of the Sulphur team. He also works across other nutrient areas, including both market and cost analysis. Prior to joining CRU, Dr Harrisson completed a PhD in Industrial Chemistry at Durham University.

Glen Kurokawa

Glen works in the Phosphates team, analysing the phosphate rock and NPK markets.

Glen joined CRU in 2018 after completing an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics.

He previously worked as a patent lawyer, specializing in chemical and industrial patents. Prior to that, he worked at the United Nations, working on corporate and technology-related issues.

Erisa Pasko

Erisa is an analyst in the Sulphur and Sulphuric acid team. Over the years she’s developed expertise on these markets, presenting her views to clients and contributing to the Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid Market Outlooks. More recently, her expertise equally extends to the natural gas market.

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.

Christopher Lavery

Chris hails from the small town of Point Aconi on Cape Bretton Island in Eastern Canada. In 2012, he completed his PhD in synthetic inorganic chemistry at Dalhousie University. Two weeks after defending his thesis, Chris joined ASRL as a research scientist and is currently operating as a project manager. His research interests include corrosion, thermal stage Claus chemistry and applied catalytic processes, including sulfur recovery, hydrogenation and olefin production. Chris regularly presents at international sulfur conferences on behalf of ASRL.

Mårten Granroth

Mårten Granroth completed his studies in early 2011 and has been working with Haldor Topsoe A/S Copenhagen since. He has a solid background within sulfuric acid, starting within technical service specializing on the VK sulfuric acid catalyst. For a number of years Mårten held a position as Product Manager for the VK sulfuric acid catalyst, working with close links to production, R&D and Sales. Most recently he has moved to a position as Licensing Manager for Topsoe’s clean air technologies, primarily working with the Wet gas Sulfuric Acid (WSA) technology

Frans Kodeda

Frans Kodeda holds the position as Technology Manager for Metso Outotec-Edmeston Product Center, specialized in Edmeston SX® strong sulphuric acid equipment. He studied Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and has more than twenty years’ experience in the field of Sulphuric acid equipment. He started as a Process Engineer at Edmeston AB in 1998 and has since then held several different positions in design, product development, fabrication, sales, and delivery of primarily Sulphuric- but also Phosporic- and Nitric- acid equipment.

Georgi Doganov

Georgi Doganov has been holding the position of Smelting and Sulphuric acid manager since 2018. Prior to joining the Lead plant in 2008 as a shift manager, Georgi’s professional career began in KCM 2000 Holding’s zinc plant, occupying a number of positions. He took part in the largest modernization and renovation project in 2011 putting into commission the Ausmelt TSL furnace with Wet Sulphuric Acid Plant. Georgi Doganov graduated from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy of non-ferrous metals. A year later he earned his Master’s degree in the same field.

Mathijs Sijpkes

Mathijs Sijpkes is a project engineer from the Netherlands. After finalizing his studies in Chemical Engineering in 2018 he started working for Sulphurnet in the field of sulphur melting and purification. Mathijs specializes in process design and has been working on numerous liquid sulphur melting and filtration projects with different capacities starting from 86 MTPD up to 1400 MTPD. During these projects, the focus was to provide the clients with a process that is completely tailor made to help them achieve their goals.

Martin Alvarez

Martin Alvarez holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. He joined Topsoe in February 2019, where he has worked as a Specialist within the Clean Air Catalyst department giving technical support to sulfuric acid clients worldwide. Before joining Topsoe, Martin worked as a Process Engineer for 5 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rick Davis

Richard Davis is a chemical engineer with over forty years of experience in the sulphuric acid industry. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from New York University. In April 1991, after working for several engineering contractors and years of experience in sulphuric acid plant production, Mr Davis became the Founder and President of Davis & Associates Consulting, Inc. Davis & Associates Consulting, Inc. provides a wide range of engineering services to the sulphuric acid industry with expertise in plant design, plant operations and legal advisement. Mr Davis has designed numerous sulphuric acid plants and sulphur dioxide scrubbing systems that are in operation around the world. For over 18 years, Mr. Davis has chaired a variety of industry workshops both locally and internationally. Additionally, he has authored several papers and articles which can be found in various industry publications. Mr Davis has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has held various positions as both an Officer and Board Member of the local section of AIChE. He was awarded the Hero of the Industry award by the AIChE in 2015. Since 2010, he has also served as a member of the Sulphur Technical Steering Committee.

Gerald Bohme

Since 1988, Gerald has been directly involved in all aspects of the process engineering consulting work conducted by Sulphur Experts Inc and its predecessor companies. He provides expert advice and consulting services for sulphur plants in the areas of design, capacity studies (including oxygen enrichment), startups and shutdowns, turnarounds and plant inspections, reliability studies, incident investigations, analytical and performance testing, and plant optimization. Gerald is the primary speaker at Sulphur Experts’ world recognized Sulphur Recovery Technical Training Course and is also a primary presenter for Sulphur Experts’ on-site training courses.

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 Industry Manager, Chemicals. 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.

Alya Alali

Alya holds a bachelor degree in chemical engineering. She started her engineering career as a process engineer in ADNOC Sour Gas, and has been working there for three years.

Rene Dijkstra

Rene Dijkstra graduated from Twente University, The Netherlands, with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering in 1995. He spent the next two years working for ICI Acrylics (now Mitsubishi Chemical) in Billingham UK as a plant engineer for the Sulphuric Acid Regeneration plant before joining Chemetics as a process engineer in 1997. As a process engineer he contributed to the development, design and startup of custom sulphuric acid and nitric acid recycling plants. He was promoted to Chemetics Acid Technology Manager in 2007. In this role he has overseas the technical aspects of all sulphur and sulphuric acid technologies offered by Chemetics and leads the R&D efforts. His latest achievement in this role has been the commercialization of Chemetics’ patented CORE-SO2™ technology.

Niels Seijsener

Niels Seijsener is a process engineer at Fluor’s Amsterdam office in the Netherlands. He joined Fluor in September 2011.

Niels has been active in (specialty) chemical and refinery projects from concept studies to turnover and pre-commissioning. In the last year(s) Niels was involved in a number of concept studies for flue gas desulphurization to deal with ever decreasing emission limits. This provides him with a unique insight in the various advantages and disadvantages of the numerous available flue gas desulphurization technologies.

Although permanently based in Amsterdam, Niels has supported several projects from on-site offices in Europe. When not in the office Niels can typically be found on the nearest squash court chasing a little black ball.

Héctor Cipriano González Vargas

Héctor Cipriano González Vargas studied chemical engineering at the National University of Colombia; specialist in high management, has diplomas in finance, international trade, human competitiveness, social responsibility and Innovation management.

He was founding partner of FAN, Natural Foods Factory. Since 1990 he Works for Quimica Basica Colombiana and Industrias Basicas of Caldas, first it was engineer assistant, then he was promoted to head of production and today is the plant manager.

His main work achievements have been: design plant for liquid SO2 production, team leader to increase production capacity of sulphuric acid by 40 % and team leader for installation system gas recovery of Sulphonic acid plant.

G M Patel

Ghanshyam Patel is a chemical engineer with 45 years of operating cum technical experience in M/s GSFC Ltd from1970 and retired as Executive Director having rich experience in all areas of diverse functional departments at apex management level like enhancing productivity in true sense by continual improvement in energy, cost reduction, environment issues, safety, quality control, fire fighting, IMS cell for GSFC. Mr Patel is on panel of RC logo auditors in ICC. At present he is Technical Director in CIFC Pvt Ltd (Rahimtula Group) since December 2010. Mr Patel has presented many technical papers in FAI, IFA, SYMPHOS and AFA conferences. He is active member in Technical Advisory and Environment committees and annual award selection committee of FAI.

Hannes Storch

Before joining Outotec in 2002 as a process engineer in Sulfuric Acid Technologies, Dr. Storch studied at the Technical University of Clausthal and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Dr. Storch holds a doctor degree in Chemical Engineering.  

In the course of his work for Metso Outotec, Dr. Storch held various positions, including several years in Chile. 

Today, he is on the management board of Metso Outotec's German subsidiary and heads the Metals and Chemical Processing business line.  

Dr. Storch is also a member of the board of the VDMA - AG Großanlagenbau (Large Plant Building Section).

Marco van Son

Marco van Son received a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands and a second Masters degree in Refining, Gas Processing and Engineering from ENSPM in France. He started his career with Air Liquide in France developing a burner for high oxygen enrichment in sulfur recovery units, and emigrated to Canada after doing the test runs of the burner with ASRL at their mini furnace near Calgary. He is currently the Global Technology Manager for Comprimo, which is part of the Worley organization. He has over 25 years of experience designing, commissioning and troubleshooting sulfur recovery units, amine units and sour water strippers. He is the current president and chairman of the board of directors of ASRL, was a sub-task group leader for the development of the API-565 Standard for SRU Thermal Reactors and has authored a number of industry publications. He is a professional engineer in Alberta, Canada.

Elmo Nasato

Elmo Nasato is a senior process engineer specializing in sulphur recovery with over 35 years' experience in the sulphur recovery industry. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with a B.Sc. Chemical Engineering (1987). He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference and Brimstone Vail Sulfur Recovery Symposium Advisory Committee and was a member of the Board of Directors for Alberta Sulphur Research. He has been awarded eight patents for SRU operation, oxygen enrichment and sulphur degassing technologies, has published 42 papers and has made over 70 presentations at conferences worldwide.

Gerrit Bloemendal

Gerrit Bloemendal is the Senior Specialist Process Engineer within Comprimo, part of the Worley group, in The Netherlands. He has extensive experience in the field of (tail) gas treating, sour water stripping, sulphur recovery and carbon capture. Under his supervision, many units have been designed. Next to his engineering tasks, he is frequently involved in training operators and start-up activities. He is also responsible for the continuous updating of the standards for sulphur recovery units (including tail gas treating units), amine units and sour water strippers.

Mason Lee

It has been a pleasant career for Mason Lee to devote his 30 years on combustion and thermal process as a senior engineer. He acquired a variety of skills and accumulated many experiences in fluid dynamics analysis, advanced combustion technology, acoustic assessment, noise control and vibration analysis. He leaded engineering design, fabrication and commissioning for combustion equipment and thermal systems, launched R&D studies for thermodynamics and combustion analysis in support of SRU projects. Mason is a Licensed Professional Engineer registered from Ontario, Canada and a member from Institute of Noise Control Engineering from USA.

Ronald J. Hoffer

Ronald J. Hoffer has two major degrees in Engineering. He started his career in the chemical industry, where he conducted plant optimization programs and implemented production plant extensions in a leading role.

He held several leads in his career in the chemical industry, where he conducted plant optimization programs and implemented production plant extensions.

In 2010, Ronald J. Hoffer joined OMV in Vienna, Austria. OMV is an integrated oil and Gas Company and the largest company of Austria.

At OMV Ronald J. Hoffer lead major repair programs and conducted reliability projects in different roles. In 2017, he formed a team of internal and external experts and led the research, design and execution of a new coating system for the wet sulfuric acid condenser of the sulfuric acid plant in the refinery Schwechat.

Dr Jochen Willersinn

Dr Jochen Willersinn studied chemistry at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany with a focus on polymer- and organometallic chemistry, followed by a diploma in polymer chemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. After finishing his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, he joined BASF in 2017 as Lab Leader in the Research Department. In early 2022, Jochen moved to BASF Process Catalyst Division to work as Technology Manager for Sulfuric Acid Catalysts for the EMEA region.

Marco Kennema

Marco Kennema graduated with a MSc from the University of Guelph, Canada, continued his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. He joined BASF in 2017 where he was responsible for Sulphuric Acid Catalyst Research and developed the Quattro Catalyst among other advancements which will be presented at the Sulphur + Sulphuric Acid 2022. In 2020 he took the responsibility for all digitalization projects related to Process Catalysts in BASF.

Vitor Sturm

Vitor Sturm is a chemical engineer who works on both phase separations and thermal separations. Mr Sturm has extensive experience troubleshooting in the oil&gas, biofuels, and fertilizer industries. He has also developed greenfield projects, from concept to detail, procurement to risk analysis, operators training and startup. In his current role, he integrates solutions across multiple frameworks and disciplines.

Matthew Coady

Matt Coady has been with Delta Controls Corporation since 2013 after graduating from Louisiana State University located in his hometown of Baton Rouge. He has served in a variety of roles with Delta Controls including inside sales, field support, marketing, and now General Manager.

Colin Shore

Colin has worked within the sulphuric acid industry for more than 10 years, joining MECS, Inc. (now part of Elessent Clean Technologies) as a Global Proposal Engineer in 2019. In this capacity, he supported sales efforts for MECS® technologies and engineering services on acid plants around the world, including recently executed projects for a sulphur burning unit in India and a spent acid regeneration unit in China. Earlier this year, he began serving as the Carbonless Energy Leader for Elessent, focusing on opportunities for the potential application of the MECS® Heat Recovery System (HRS™) and related technologies to help clients improve the energy efficiency of their acid plant operations.

Jeff Weinfeld

Jeff obtained a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in 2016 and a PhD in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2020.  In graduate school, Jeff used modeling and experimentation to study reactive dividing wall distillation columns with the goal of assisting commercial evaluation of the technology.  Since then, he has worked as a Development Engineer at Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.  In this role, Jeff develops, implements, and tests advanced mass-transfer based process models for the ProTreat® and SulphurPro® process simulators.

Marcus Weber

Marcus Weber is Executive Process Director for Fluor. He has over 30 years’ experience in sulfur recovery, carbon capture and power generation industries. He has held a variety of roles in project management, engineering management, construction and commissioning. Mr. Weber received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. He is a licensed professional engineer in California & Texas. Mr. Weber is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute.

Rasmus Sverdrup

Rasmus Sverdrup has worked in the wet sulfuric acid field for the latest ten years in project, preproject, commissioning and after sales service at the licensor Topsoe. Right now Rasmus is heading part of Topsoes shift to digital services in the capacity of digital manager for wet sulfuric acid and SNOX. Rasmus is part of topsoes technical service team and are both working with the development of new digital solutions and the practical work of commissioning new WSA units.

Alsail Al Jaberi

Alsail Al Jaberi holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Khalifa University. She is currently working as a Process Engineer assigned to the Sulfur Recovery Units and handles all related projects in ADNOC Sour Gas (ASG) under the Projects & Technical Services division . During her four-years' experience in oil and gas industry, she has been actively involved in major projects and expansion activities within the organization. Involvement in multiple shut down activities & working as a site engineer in addition to her daily/routine process engineering tasks. Also, she is ASG focal point for Middle East Sulphur Conference.

Adel Taher Najjar

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with a total of 13 years of experience, working in Saudi Arabia Ras Tanura Refinery as Senior Operations engineer In Sulfur Recovery Unit.

Simon Püls

Simon Püls studied material science and engineering at the university of Bayreuth, Upper Franconia, Bavaria. His Diploma thesis was focused on resistive oxygen sensors and its utilization for combustion engine control. The results were presented at the ‘Sensor und Messsysteme 2018’ in Nürnberg. After his studies, Simon worked as a field service engineer on glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GD-OES) devices for three years. That followed an employment as Application Manager at SensoTech, a high-tech company based in Magdeburg-Barleben focused on ultrasonic measurement systems for industrial process control. At the moment he is taking care of laboratory investigations, data calculation and feasibility tests. He is also involved in customer support as well as holding technical training sessions for colleagues, sales representatives and customers.

Domenica Misale

Domenica Misale is the Technical Director at Industrial Ceramics in Ontario, Canada. She joined shortly after graduating from McMaster University. Domenica has been involved in numerous tubehseet reliability studies and root cause analysis during the last 32 years; through which she has developed an in depth understanding of the design factors, operating conditions and material properties that impact the reliability and integrity of these systems. She serves as a sub-group leader on API 565 team, tasked with developing recommended practices for tubesheet protection systems in SRUs, and is part of the technical advisory committee for Brimstone Sulfur Symposium. She has authored several technical papers and has presented at numerous conferences worldwide.

Rob Marriott

Rob Marriott is the Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd (ASRL) Director of Research (DOR) and the NSERC ASRL Industrial Research Chair in Applied Sulfur Chemistry. He is responsible for guiding the ASRL Core research program and teaches as an Associate Professor within the Department of Chemistry. His current research interests range from applied chemical thermodynamics of complex systems, souring of reservoir fluids, sulfur deposition, hydrate formation, sulfur recovery and high-pressure fluid purification. Prior to taking over as DOR, he spent 8 years with ASRL as a Research Scientist and Project Manager and 5 years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. He has authored over 50 published research papers, more than 100 conference presentations and over 130 confidential research contract reports.

David Savage

David Savage has more than 30 years of experience in the process design, project management and plant operation. Upon receiving his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, he worked for Haldor Topsoe’s process engineering group in Houston.  Mr Savage worked seven years with Farmland (later acquired by Koch Nitrogen) as Plant Engineer and Technical Superintendent prior to joining Devco in 2004. He is currently Sr. Project Manager for natural gas industry related projects, as well as Industry Specialist for all sulphur related projects for Matrix PDM Engineering. Mr Savage has held multiple positions over the past 18 years to fully execute projects in various locations around the world totaling 30,000 TPD or 11 MM TPY of sulphur forming capacity, in-excess of 10,000 TPD of sulphur block pouring, 4,000 TPD of solid sulphur remelting and helped to develop a sulphur mine and recovery facility in northern Iraq.    

Diego Scilla

Diego Scilla is a senior process engineer with over 15 years experience in the sulphur recovery industry. He graduated from the Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy, with a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering (2005). After serving as Lead Process Engineer in the sulphur recovery and acid gas treatment area in Saipem (2011 to 2017), Diego joined Siirtec Nigi as Process Coordinator and specialized in the aspects related to SRU design and operation. His working experience covers all phases of process design, from feasibility to detail design and start-up.

Randal Sarrazin

38 years’ experience in Sulphuric acid and Sulphur Dioxide from plant operation and process, plant maintenance and project management.

Education:
2nd Class Power Engineer Project Management Professional (PMP) certification NACE level one lining and coating inspector certification  

Joined NORAM Engineering in 2020 has their Technical Sales and Operations Manager.

Jurgens Hanekom

I have been involved in the Sulphuric Acid Industry for about 44 years in many roles. I started my career at Rössing Uranium in Namibia where I worked on Uranium extraction plants and an Acid Plant. At Rössing I was responsible for the operations and maintenance of a Pyrite burning Acid Plant.I joined MECS in1998 as a Technical Manager in their offices in Johannesburg, servicing the Southern African Sulphuric Acid Industry. I moved to MECS’s offices in Belgium in 2001 as head of Project Execution teams. I created a Field Service Team in 2010 and have managed this team for the last 10 years. My team members are based in Belgium, Saudi Arabia and India and we offer services such as plant inspections and audits, and commissioning and training. I am a Chemical Engineer and studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Cape Town Technical University in South Africa.