About the Author

I am a retired chemical engineer living with my wife in Newport Beach, California, USA.  My professional career included 20 years as a manager of process design with the Fluor Corporation (now known as Fluor-Daniels Inc.) in the United States and in the United Kingdom, followed by 25 years of independent consulting.

My primary expertise was in the process design of petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas processing plants.  For the last 12 years or so of my consulting work, my primary focus was on the environmental aspects of the hydrocarbon processing industry.  My clients included almost every major oil company operating in the United States as well as most of the major environmental consulting firms.

I am a graduate of Texas A&M University, and a long-time Fellow member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

As a labor of love, for six years I was the volunteer editor of the "Air Dispersion Modeling" category (and its two subcategories of "Consultants" and "Software") for the Open Directory Project search engine at http://dmoz.org on the Internet.