Staff
FRI President
Dr. A.L. (Pete) Parker, President (405-385-0354, Ext. 112)
Dr. Pete Parker holds a BS in chemical engineering from New Mexico State University and an MS and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been with Shell for 29 years working primarily in technology development and delivery and in refinery management
FRI Technical Director
Mr. Michael R. Resetarits (405-385-0354, Ext. 105)
Mr. Mike Resetarits holds BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering, and also an MBA. Before joining FRI, he worked for Union Carbide, UOP and Koch-Glitsch. Thus far, most of his career was spent doing separations design and research, particularly in the field of distillation, absorption and extraction. He was awarded 17 distillation equipment patents. He has authored over 50 separation-related papers.
FRI Technical Staff
Ahmad Shariat, Ph.D., Senior Research Engineer (405-385-0354, Ext. 109)
Dr. Shariat came to FRI shortly before the relocation of the facility from California. He has authored and updated - on a continuing basis - the FRI rating programs for trays and random packings as well as operational planning and analysis of data from the Experimental Unit. He has over 35 years experience in teaching and research as well as consulting experience for industrial and private firms. In addition, he has authored over twenty publications.
Tony Cai, Ph.D., Senior Research Engineer (405-385-0354, Ext. 107)
Dr. Cai joined FRI in 1996 after teaching and research in the areas of chemical process design, analysis and control. He has experience in the areas of fluid dynamic analysis, structural analysis and hydraulic modeling. His contributions to FRI are in the areas of operational planning, data analysis and new model development. He has authored several publications dealing with this work.
Dave Williams - Project & HSE Coordinator (405-385-0354, Ext. 114)
Mr. Dave Williams joined the FRI staff in 1999 as a Research Technician. While in that role, he performed the majority of FRI’s instrumentation work. In 2008, he was appointed to the position of Technician III. In September of 2009, he was reassigned to the newly created Project & HSE Coordinator position. His main functions include capital project management and safety programming.
A.Y. Ogundeji - Associate Research Engineer (405-385-0354, Ext. 103)
Mr. Ogundeji joined FRI in 2008 after attaining his BEng from the University of Wales Swansea and his MSC from Oklahoma State University, both in chemical engineering. At FRI, Mr. Ogundeji is working on operational planning, data collection, data analysis and modeling.
FRI Consultants
Sixto Ortiz, retired, formerly Phillips and Valero
Rob Whitelety, Oklahoma State University
Jan Wagner, Oklahoma State University
Ken Bell, Oklahoma State University
Khaled Gasem, Oklahoma State University
Shuzo Ohe, Science University of Tokyo
Derrick Wallace, The Juvo Group
Doug Bouck, formerly BP
Neil Yeoman, formerly Koch-Glitsch
John Farone, retired, formerly Dow Chemical
Ron Myers, retired, formerly Rohm & Haas
Ji Jiabing, Zhejianj University of Technology, PR China
S.T. Kim, Business consultant, UIT Inc., Korea
Tak Yanagi, Business consultant, WorleyParsons
John Brierly, retired, formerly ICI
Norm Draper, University of Wisconsin
Thomas Hanratty, University of Illinois
John Knudsen, Oregon State University
Ken Porter, University of Aston. UK
John Prausnitz, University of California
David Sample, Sandia National Laboratories
John Stichlmair, Technical University of Munich
Frank Wijn, retired, formerly Shell Oil