3^rd World Congress on Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering November 29-30,2015 Atlanta, USA

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Material Science and the management of research and development efforts. His most recent work has focused on the development of new catalysts and pigments primarily directed to the field of layered compounds.

Clifford Lipscomb is the Director of Economic Research at Greenfield Advisors, a Chartered Valuation Surveyor, and has more than 18 years of experience in economic analysis, statistical analysis, consulting, and teaching. He holds baccalaureate degrees in Economics and Sociology from Berry College as well as a PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature. Dr. Lipscomb won the 2014 International Association of Assessing Officers’ Bernard L. Barnard Outstanding Technical Essay Award. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Economic analysis, statistical analysis, consulting, and teaching

Mileva Radonjic completed her PhD at Bristol University, and postdoc at Princeton. She is currently being evaluated for associate professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at LSU. Dr. Radonjic established Sustainable Energy and Environmental Research (SEER) laboratory, focused on development of materials and technologies for prevention of leaky wellbores, in conventional O&G production, carbon sequestration and hydraulic fracturing. She is currently working as one of the editors on a book titled as the keynote presented here, and published papers with her graduate students in several journals as well as presented at more than 60 conferences in the last 5years.

Carbon storage and capture, global warming mitigation.
Oil-well cement durability, effective long term zonal isolation, corrosion issues.
Wellbore stability, geomechanics.
Enhanced oil recovery.

Hums studied in Berlin, Germany both chemical engineering and chemistry. He has completed his PhD at the University in Bayreuth, Germany. He was consulting technical innovations, support to R&D, patent/ license strategy and pioneering the development of the so-called plate-type catalyst for NOx abatement at the Siemens company. He was lecturing at the University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany. Thereafter he started consulting with companies and universities and serving as an editorial board member of Applied Catalysis B Environmental. He has been instrumental in assisting to achieve industrial collaboration in the emerging science area in South Africa on the fly ash side for UWC/ESKOM. He has published numerous patents, papers and articles.

Applied Catalysis

Bushra Al Duri won a Research Grant Award of £750k from the EPSRC in Supercritical Coal Fired Power Plants, in collaboration with Electrical Engineering at Warwick University, Tsinghua University and NCEPU in China. Industrial partners are E-On UK Ltd., Emerson UK Ltd. and Scottish Powers. She is the lead Investigator in Chemical Engineering at Birmingham. She has recently returned from an EPSRC-supported UK-China Energy Conference in Beijing, where she represented the Project. Bushra completed 16 PhD [programmes and has over 90 publications in Wastewater Treatment, Reactions & Biocatalysis, and Supercritical Fluids. She also has on-going collaborations with international institutions, including University of Tokyo. Her future plans include expanding of the research in Energy and Environment; focusing on combining existing processes with supercritical water technology as the next generation of processes for waste minimisation and energy production, which complies with the increasing concerns over carbon emission and hence global warming. Bushra was appointed as MEGS Deputy Director at the beginning of April 2011.

Hydrothermal Processing Research in Supercritical Water for Environmental and Waste Minimisation studies. The aim is to use the knowledge of supercritical water chemistry and engineering background to conduct investigations that address commercial scale problems and existing challenges
Improvement of reaction kinetics using supercritical fluid reaction media to eliminate undesired side reactions (such as coking)
Isolation and purification of high value minority lipids from plants and edible oil refinery streams using supercritical CO2
Immobilised Enzyme biocatalyses for oleochemical reactions (modification of oils and triglycerides)
Adsorption studies for various solid/liquid contact applications namely wastewater treatment, CO2 sequestration, and immobilisation studies

LiZhaomin, was born in May 1965. He is the current vice president of China University of Petroleum ( East China), part-time director of the Research Center of foam fluid China University of Petroleum, China Oilfield Services Limited - China University of Petroleum ( East China ) "COSL-CUP foam fluid Joint Lab" director.

Technology research : production engineering theory and technology ; foam fluid to improve the efficiency of oil and gas ; thermo-chemical fluid to improve heavy oil recovery ; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and its application.

Tereza Neuma Castro Dantas holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Ceará (1975), Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry for the same UFC (1979), Doctorate Third Cycle (1981) and PhD in Chemistry (1983), both by the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Member of European Academy of Sciences Arts and Literature. She is currently a teacher volunteer of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, working in teaching and research. Fellow in Research Productivity 1 B of CNPq. She is a professor of UNIRN and Executive Coordinator of the Primary Processing of Waste water - NUPPRAR/ UFRN/PETROBRAS. Holds the position of President of the Regional Council of Chemistry-XV Region. She is a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Petroleum and Gas-BJPG. Has experience in the areas of Chemical Technology and Chemistry of Natural Products, working in the areas of Oil, Gas and Environment, involving applications with surfactant and microemulsions and nanoemulsions systems.

Chemical Engineering

Z A Mansurov is a General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems, Kazakhstan. His scientific activity includes study and investigations of kinetics and mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion and structure of cool soothing flames: catalytic carbon formation and its applied aspects. In 2002, he received Diploma for discovery of “Phenomenon of low-temperature cool-flame soot formation”. His professional career includes longstanding activity in INTAS Council of Scientists (Representative from Kazakhstan); participation in various international conferences including NATO-Workshops, author of more than 600 scientific papers; Editor-in-Chief of “Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal” indexed at Scopus and “Combustion and Plasmochemistry Journal”.

Chemical kinetics