The Chemical Engineers' Resource
Page Staff Members
Owner and Chief
Webmaster
Christopher M. A. Haslego has owned
and operated The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page since 1998. He is a graduate of
West Virginia University's School of Engineering and hold a Bachelor's of Science Degree
in Chemical Engineering. After spending time in the chemical process industry as a
process and quality control engineer, he accepted a position with Alfa Laval Thermal in
Richmond, VA where he serves as a Heat Transfer Specialist.
Chief Content Managers
Philip
Leckner brings 25 years of experience to the Resource Page. After
beginning with the Linde Company in 1975, Philip spent the bulk of this career as a
Process Engineer with Engineering and Contracting firms such as Davy McKee, Raytheon, and
presently with Lockwood Greene. He received his BSChE from Lowell Technological
Institute, which is now part of the University of Massachusetts. Philip's main
interests include hydraulics/fluid flow (single and two phase) and process safety,
particularly relieving scenarios with piping systems.
Mukesh Sahdev is
currently employed by Shell Global Solutions (Malaysia) , Kuala Lumpur as Hydrocarbon
Management Consultant . He has worked with Aspen Technology India and Indian Oil
Corporation Ltd in various business functions. He has more than 10 years of experience in
supply chain optimization, refinery planning and optimization, petroleum refining
operations, and refinery unit commissioning. He has proficiency in working with linear
programming (LP) tools for refinery planning like RPMS (Honeywell), PIMS (AspenTech). He
has worked extensively in the application of LP technology in areas of crude evaluation,
crude selection, profitability case studies and project economic evaluations. He has
good exposure to refinery scheduling and blending applications like ORION & MBO
(AspenTech). He has good experience in the commissioning, operating, and monitoring of
Continuous Catalytic Reforming Units (CCRU) and Visbreaker Units as well. He has
good proficiency in technical writing and paper presentations. Mukesh has published and
presented a numbers of papers on via the internet, chemical engineering magazines,
Refinery Technology meetings, 2005 Honeywell User Conference, and others. He is a
1993 Chemical Engineering graduate from Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Associate Content
Writers
Dr.
Bernhard Spang is a project manager for heat exchangers in the chemical and
process industries at BUCO Waermeaustauscher GmbH in Germany. Besides his main job he is
also a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of the
Federal Armed Forces Hamburg where he teaches lecture courses in chemical and
environmental engineering. Bernhard's interests include heat exchanger design, heat and
mass transfer processes, and thermodynamics.
Eduardo Vargasis a marketing manager
for ExxonMobil Corporation in Argentina. His current duties include managing the
above and underground tank network for ExxonMobil in several countries in South
America. Eduardo finds that a nice mix of management and science helps keep life
interesting.
Christa
Semko serves as the Chemical Industry News Editor at Cheresources.com.
