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Chemical Engineer Helps Students Understand Chemical Process Safety By David Salas |
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An established chemical engineer, Peter J. Joyce, feels that engineering companies, large and small, have an obligation to help students develop by exposing them to real world technical problems and issues. Our Philadelphia Chemical Engineering community feels the same way and, we will soon present an educational conference aimed at students and professional for Chemical Process Safety. The date is Thursday Dec 2nd from 11:20 am to 8:45pm at Widener University. Peter J. Joyce, one of the extraordinary speakers scheduled, will conduct the student workshop on HAZOP. Drawing on his over 24 plus years of experience, Peter will talk about how companies, such as Value Recover, Inc., identify, evaluate and mitigate safety hazards and technical problems.
Peter received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University , an M.S. in Chemical Engineering form the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia University. Currently, Peter is the President of Value Recovery, Inc. a chemical research company focused on finding ways of using Phase Transfer Catalysis (PTC), recovering byproducts and eliminating the effects of reactive hazardous waste. In just under 5 years, he has raised over $1.9 million in state and federal research funds to develop the technology and has used some of these awards to build a custom wet laboratory in Southern New Jersey. Peter is an experienced engineering manager. He worked for Johnson Matthey for 7 years and Hercules for 11 years. He has installed or managed the installation of over 200 capital projects in the $100K to $1 million range. His expertise is in the installation of new technology in manufacturing plants and he has completed numerous projects such as batch process conversion to a continuous process, process instrumentation and control, flavor and fragrance fine distillations and extractions, and in the recovery and purification of precious metals. For Johnson Matthey he was responsible for a complete overhaul of their precious metal refinery and wastewater treatment plant which contributed to that plant's ROI increasing from 0 to 50% through the mid 90's. Value Recovery has been recently informed by the US Patent Office of the acceptance of their broad based patent in the use of Phase Transfer Catalysts and several others prospective patents are in the pipeline. The company has also done significant research on the removal of methyl bromide and other alkyl halides from vent gas streams and is working with the fumigation industry on using this technology to protect the ozone layer. In addition, Peter has also done projects with students from Widener University, Rowan University and Iowa State University. |
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