Many times the companies, we work for, have established a set of guidelines as good Distillation practice. The DPC provides new good ideas that challenge these established practices and keep them "evergreen." The DPC handbook is a wonderful resource that can provide an unbiased "second opinion" to many of today's challenging Distillation needs.
Dan Summers - Past DPC Chairman
The Design Practices Committee (DPC) of FRI functions as a body where general distillation industry design practices are documented and guidelines for their application developed. Their work is documented in FRI's Fractionation Tray Design Handbook: Volume 5; Design Practices.
Mr. Ray Sowiak, Committee Chair, Lummus Technology. LLC
Mr. Joe Parker, Committee Vice Chair, Eastman Chemical Company
Mr. Bill Nelson, CITGO
Mr. Bradley Haecker, The Dow Chemical Company
Mr. Henry Kister, Fluor Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. John Petrik, Air Products and Chemicals
Mr. Jeremy Brauer, UOP LLC
Mr. Keith Whitt, Shell Global Solutions
Mr. Lorenzo Del Carlo, Lummus Technology LLC
Mr. Matthew Olsson, Eastman Chemical Company
Mr. Nathan Powell, Celanese Ltd.
Dr. Norman Yeh, ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions
Mr. Paul Morehead, P.E., Koch-Glitsch
Mr. F. Ronald Olsson, P.E., Celanese Ltd.
Dr. Samrat Mukherjee, Corteva Agriscience
Mr. Senthil Krishnamoorthy, Sulzer Chemtech Limited
Mr. Tim Zygula, BASF Petrochemicals
Dr. Zhongcheng Wang, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Consultants: Mr. John Farone; Mr. Dan Summers, P.E., Mr. Attilio Praderio
Design Practice Committee members are not always Technical Representatives from their member companies. They are appointed to the committee from Member Companies based on their expertise in the industry.