Enhancements in EO/EG production technology

Han van Milligen is the EO Licensing Business Manager for Shell Global Solutions International BV, located at the Shell Technology Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He holds an MS degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands. Since joining Shell Chemicals in 1985, he has been involved in lower olefins, EO/EG and higher olefins technology and process design, and in EO/EG manufacturing and licensing.

Brian VanderWilp is the Business Director for the Americas for EO Catalysts at CRI Catalyst Co. Brian joined CRI in 1996 after spending the first part of his professional career as a production support engineer with Union Carbide and, later, The Upjohn Co. His initial role with CRI was as a technical service engineer for EO catalyst. He later worked in the hydrogenation catalyst businesses. In 2006, Mr. VanderWilp acquired sales and product management responsibilities for the hydrogenation and specialty catalyst business. In 2011, he returned to the EO business as Business Director. He holds a degree in chemical engineering from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and an MBA from the University of Houston at Victoria in Victoria, Texas.

Gary J. (Jimmy) Wells is a Principal Researcher in the EO catalyst research and development group of CRI Catalyst Co. He completed undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and earned his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2003, he joined Shell in the EO/glycols process support group in Houston, Texas, where he developed and deployed advanced process monitoring tools to manufacturing sites. Since 2007, Dr. Wells has worked as a catalyst performance modeler at CRI. He integrates research and development results into models for customer guidance, supports the deployment and performance monitoring of new catalysts, and leads a cooperative team with process design and licensing staff to co-optimize new catalysts with the EO/glycols process.