Enterprise-wide energy efficiency fleet monitoring tool

Kirtan Trivedi has more than 35 yr of experience, and worked for Brown & Root Braun and Parsons before joining ExxonMobil 23 yr ago. His expertise is in process integration and energy efficiency, project planning, design and development, process simulation and reliability modeling. He has worked in technologies related to refining, ethylene, upstream gas processing, aromatics, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and methanol-to-gasoline. He earned a B.E. degree from M. S. University of Baroda, India, an M.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia, all in chemical engineering. Dr. Trivedi did his post-doctoral research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He volunteers in organizing and chairing sessions for the AIChE Spring National Meeting and was the Chairman of Process Integration Research Consortium at the University of Manchester.

Suhas Nehete has 15 yr of industry experience, and worked for Reliance Industries and Shell before joining ExxonMobil 6 yr ago. His expertise is in process intensification, energy optimization and monitoring, energy and CO2 management, and process automation. He has worked in technologies related to refining, olefins and aromatics. Mr. Nehete earned a B.E. degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. He is also registered as a Chartered Engineer by IChemE, UK.

John Gunter has worked for ExxonMobil for 31 yr, specializing in advanced process control with recent contributions to the deployment of operator guidance tools, such as abnormal event detection and procedural operations technologies. He has worked in technologies related to fuel and lubricant additives, neo acids, oxygenated fluids, polypropylene, metallocene linear low-density polyethylene films, and refining. He now works in a business planning role where new energy efficiency improvements and emissions mitigation opportunities are evaluated to support the company’s goals. Mr. Gunter earned an MS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering, where he conducted pioneering research in the application of partial least squares to compositional analysis for biosensors.