2^nd World Congress on Petroleum and Refinery June 1-3 , 2017 Osaka, Japan

Dr. Ford is a practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America, and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

Chlorinated organics and associated organic chemicals , Petroleum refinery and petrochemical plants, Miscellaneous manufacturing, processing, and remediation facilities

Ridha Gharbi has over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, ranging from research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering. He has published extensively in refereed journals and technical conferences. Ridha Gharbi holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa (1987), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (1989 and 1993, respectively) all of which are in petroleum engineering. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Kuwait University from 2004 to 2008. Ridha Gharbi served as editor-in-chief, associate editor, a member of the Editorial Board and/or reviewer of several international technical journals and sponsor agencies. He was the founder of the petroleum engineering graduate program at Kuwait University and the co-founder of the joint-graduate program between the department of petroleum engineering and the department of earth and environmental sciences.

Research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering.

Ridha Gharbi has over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, ranging from research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering. He has published extensively in refereed journals and technical conferences. Ridha Gharbi holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa (1987), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (1989 and 1993, respectively) all of which are in petroleum engineering. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Kuwait University from 2004 to 2008. Ridha Gharbi served as editor-in-chief, associate editor, a member of the Editorial Board and/or reviewer of several international technical journals and sponsor agencies. He was the founder of the petroleum engineering graduate program at Kuwait University and the co-founder of the joint-graduate program between the department of petroleum engineering and the department of earth and environmental sciences.

Research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering.

Ridha Gharbi has over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, ranging from research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering. He has published extensively in refereed journals and technical conferences. Ridha Gharbi holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa (1987), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (1989 and 1993, respectively) all of which are in petroleum engineering. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Kuwait University from 2004 to 2008. Ridha Gharbi served as editor-in-chief, associate editor, a member of the Editorial Board and/or reviewer of several international technical journals and sponsor agencies. He was the founder of the petroleum engineering graduate program at Kuwait University and the co-founder of the joint-graduate program between the department of petroleum engineering and the department of earth and environmental sciences.

Research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering.

Fawzi Banat is a Professor & Cahir of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

His main research interest is in the area of Membrane Desalination, Water Treatment, Gas Treatment and Foaming. Much of his research in membrane distillation emphasized the development and evolution of the process. He also conducts general research in the area of thermodynamics, multicomponent mass transfer, and renewable energy.

Renyuan SUN has completed his PhD in 2005 from Tianjin University, China. He is a professor of petroleum engineering in the school of petroleum engineering, China University of Petroleum. His research interests include unconventional oil & gas development, enhanced oil & gas recovery and physical oil production. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

His research interests include unconventional oil & gas development, enhanced oil & gas recovery and physical oil production.

Dr Stanislav Boldyryev is the Deputy General Director on Development of bromine plant, Ukraine; Associate Professor of National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine. He accomplished 10 EC research project and has published 75 scientific papers, 37 conference presentations, 5 teaching guides. He has Industrial experience in the fields of : Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps.

Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1992 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1997, He is currently Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at University Roma Tre – Department of Engineering. His main scientific interests are focused mainly on: a) Performance-based design of steel-concrete composite bridges, b) Assessment and reduction of the seismic risk of reinforced concrete buildings and bridges, c) Seismic risk of major-hazard industrial plants and applicability of innovative protection systems (base isolation and energy dissipation), e) Seismic vulnerability of high-voltage electric networks and substations and applicability of innovative seismic protection systems, f) Passive and semi-active control of structures. He gained a long standing experience in the management of research projects about experimental assessment of the seismic response of structures. He is currently PI of many European projects. From 2008 to 2013 He assumed the role of scientific coordinator of the Laboratory of Testing Materials and Structures of the Department of Structures of the University Roma Tre. He received a fellowship provided by CNR (National Research Council) for a research activity of six months at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of California at Berkeley from September 1999 to February 2000 as visiting scholar. He is author of more than 100 publications on International peer-reviewed Journals and conferences.

a) Performance-based design of steel-concrete composite bridges, b) Assessment and reduction of the seismic risk of reinforced concrete buildings and bridges, c) Seismic risk of major-hazard industrial plants and applicability of innovative protection systems (base isolation and energy dissipation), e) Seismic vulnerability of high-voltage electric networks and substations and applicability of innovative seismic protection systems, f) Passive and semi-active control of structures.

Seema Narayan is ranked in the top ten percent of female authors in the world according to RePec. She is Associate Professor of Economics at RMIT University, Melbourne. She has published close to 100 publications in highly ranked peer reviewed journals. A/Prof Narayan has had many publications in the area of Energy Economics that examines the channels through which energy has an economic impact.

Her recent publications explore the link between economic growth and energy. In this paper, she provides insights into the importance of petroleum to the Indian economy.

Professor Zizi Abdeen is a Egyptian national. She is a researcher in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Prof Zizi Abdeen her PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2005 from Ain Shams University, (Egypt), where she also completed her M.Sc. Degree in Chemistry and her B.Sc., Degree in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University, (Egypt). She was appointed Professor in 3/2016 in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. She main stream research is at the frontier of materials/polymer science and emerging fields such as nanotechnology/nanocomposites. She has a keen interest in the development of intelligent materials based on bio resources such as chitosan and starch through chemical modification and advanced biotechnology processes. He is author of over 27 articles on polymers, biomaterials, hydrogels and nano composites systems and reviewer of over 15 International journals and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Polymers and Biomaterials in different International journals. She was sharing as technical committee in international conference.

Development of Nano-Microgels. Targeted oily water treatment and reused Chitosan and its applications in petroleum field Polymer nanosystems - Metal nanoparticles- Hydrogels