Duane B. Myers

Senior Engineer

Experience

Senior Engineer, Trimeric Corporation, Buda, TX, 2006-Present.

Positions up to Principal Engineer, Directed Technologies, Arlington, VA, 2002-2006.

Process Engineer, Rohm and Haas, Bristol, PA, 1999-2001.

Positions up to Engineer at Radian International LLC, Austin, TX, 1993-1996.

Chemical Engineer, Occidental Chemical Company, Delaware City, DE, Summer 1992.

Fields of Experience

Mr. Myers is an expert in process development, modeling, and optimization of operations in the chemical/polymer, hydrogen, and gasification processing areas.  Mr. Myers has experience with commercial process simulation software in general, and is particularly skilled with HYSYS.  Some of Mr. Myers’s other areas of experience include:

·        Process development from conceptual design through pilot plant design, construction, and operation.

·        Process equipment and plant cost development, including uncertainty analysis, design for manufacturing and assembly, and project economic justification.

·        Process plant operation, debottlenecking, and troubleshooting.

·        Chemical reaction kinetics and catalysis.

·        Development of measurement methods for and modeling of emissions from glycol dehydration and development of software predictions.

·        Program management for materials research and development programs.

Professional Affiliations:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Education                         

M.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

B.ChE. magna cum laude, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1993.  

Publications/Presentations

10 publications/1 academic symposia presentation