Take the mystery out of running your LNG plant

Mark Julian Roberts joined Air Products in 1996 and has 32 years’ experience developing cryogenic cycles for gas separation and liquefaction in the Air Separation, Hydrocarbon Processing and LNG industries. He has over 40 US and international patents issued in his name, including the patents for the AP-X™ liquefaction process used for the six mega-trains in Qatar, the patent for the AP-N™ liquefaction process deployed in the first offshore project, Petronas FLNG Satu, and the patents for the AP-DMR™ dual mixed refrigerant liquefaction process used on the Coral South FLNG vessel currently under construction.

William P. Schmidt is the Technology Manager for LNG Process Engineering. This includes developing and maintaining the process design methods, project and field support, technical risk management, and troubleshooting. Mr. Schmidt has 43 years of process engineering experience, including air separation, non-cryogenic gas separations, computer model development, and the past 14 years have been in LNG. He is co-inventor on 11 US patents and has 44 external publications. He received Chemical Engineering degrees from Case Western Reserve University (B.S.) and Lehigh (M.S.).

Sophia Gripp was an intern for LNG Process Engineering. As an intern, Ms. Gripp supported several LNG process engineering projects focused on process improvement. She has had three internships at Air Products, including roles in EH&S and HyCO Customer Service Engineering. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in December of 2022. She is currently pursuing a career in pharmaceutical process engineering.