APPENDIX A
BIOGRAPHIES OF PANEL MEMBERS
George E. Keller II (chair) recently retired as senior corporate research fellow for Union Carbide Corporation. He received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and spent 36 years working for Union Carbide. He has experience in chemical and petroleum separation technologies, including distillation, membranes, adsorption, and extraction, and is co-author of a recently published book, Separation Process Technology. He chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Separations in 1985 and was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Separation Science and Technology in 1986. Dr. Keller is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
R. Ray Beebe retired as senior vice president of Homestake Mining Company. He received an M.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Montana School of Mines. His areas of expertise include mineral processing, crushing, extraction, leaching, electrochemical separations, ore beneficiation and upgrading, and ferrous and nonferrous metals. Prior to his tenure at Homestake Mining, he held senior management positions with Marcona Corporation and Newmont Mining Corporation. Mr. Beebe is currently the chair of the National Research Executive Committee on Industrial Technology Assessments. He has previously served as a member of the National Materials Advisory Board and as vice chair of the National Research Council study on competitiveness of the U.S. minerals and mining industry. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Richard J. Fruehan is professor of metallurgical engineering and director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research at Carnegie-Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
His areas of expertise include the physical chemistry of metallurgical reactions in steelmaking and other metals production. He has 14 years of experience with U.S. Steel Research and is associate editor of Metallurgical Transactions. Dr. Fruehan has previously served on two National Research Council committees, the Committee on Industrial Energy Conservation and the Panel on International Cooperation and Competition in Materials Science and Engineering.
Norman N. Li retired as director of research and technology for AlliedSignal and is currently president of NL Chemical Technologies. He received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He has 18 years of experience with Exxon Research and Engineering and was director of separation science and technology at UOP (formerly Universal Oil Products, Inc.) for seven years. He is one of the developers of the liquid membrane separation technology, and his experience includes biochemical separation and purification, colloids and interfaces, metal removal processes, water treatment systems, leaching, and extraction. Dr. Li has published 73 papers in major technical journals, edited 13 books, and received 43 U.S. patents. He was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Separation Science and Technology in 1986 and has chaired two Gordon Research Conferences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Eve L. Menger retired as director of characterization science and services at Corning, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. She has expertise in characterization science, technology transfer, and industrial chemicals and processes, including nonsteady state effects in diffusion controlled processes, heterogeneous catalysis, and excited state reactions. She held senior research and management positions at AlliedSignal for nine years and has served on two National Research Council committees, the Committee on Industrial Competitiveness and Environmental Protection and the Committee on Diversity in the Naval Scientific Workforce.
Guido P. Pez is chief scientist, inorganic and organo-fluorine chemistry, at the Corporate Science and Technology Center of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Monash University. His areas of expertise include inorganic chemistry, catalysis, and organo-fluorine chemistry. He has 17 years of experience leading a research group in these areas at Air Products & Chemicals and 12 years of prior experience with Allied Chemical Corporation. He has extensive expertise in separations based on chemical reactions and synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry as applied to catalysis.
Peter H. Pfromm is assistant professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of
Texas at Austin. His expertise includes gaseous membrane separations, electrochemical separations, specialty separations, separation processes for closed-cycle manufacturing, paper recycling, and polymer science. Dr. Pfromm previously held positions at Membrane Research and Technology, Inc., and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft/IGB in Stuttgart.
Ronald W. Rousseau is professor and chair of the School of Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Louisiana State University. His research interests include separation and purification via crystallization, with special emphasis on crystal nucleation and growth, and crystal morphology, purity, and size distribution. He received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Gerhold award for his work in separations and has published more than 130 papers based on his research. He is editor of the Handbook of Separation Process Technology and co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes. He has served as chair of the Council for Chemical Research and is a Fellow of the AIChE.
Michael P. Thomas is director of technology and business development with Alcan Recycling. He received a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the University of Cambridge. He has expertise in metallurgy and materials processing, with 15 years of industrial experience in new product research and development, management of research and development, corporate strategy, and business management. He is chair of The Aluminum Association's Automotive and Light Truck Recycling Committee. He has published more than 40 papers and holds six patents.