“Addressing the Dual Challenge Through Advanced Separations: From Materials to Process Scale Up”

ExxonMobil has been developing advanced separation concepts focused on some of the highest impact hydrocarbon separation processes to address the challenges of supplying affordable energy while reducing emissions. McCool will discuss the research portfolio of the separations and process chemistry group at ExxonMobil’s Corporate Strategic Research and the processes with potential to dramatically reduce the carbon and physical footprint of critical operations.

Ben McCool is Section Head, Separations and Process Chemistry, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research in Annandale NJ. His research interests include transport in inorganic and polymeric membranes, gas and liquid separations, membrane reactors and process conceptualization