Avinashkumar Karre is a Lead Process Engineer at Worley Group, with about 13 years of experience in the Refinery and Chemical industry. He received his master's in chemical engineering degree from West Virginia University, USA and bachelor's in chemical engineering degree from Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly known as UDCT), Mumbai, India. He has worked on range of assignments including grassroots process design, process debottleneck studies, process feasibility studies, and process safety analysis. He has extensive design experience in crude-vacuum (CDU-VDU), fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), amine recovery unit (ARU), sour water stripper unit (SWS), hydrocracker, sulfur recovery and tail gas treatment (SRU & TGTU), Kerosene (Jet) treater, plant utilities (boiler, cooling tower, ion exchange, neutralization system, water softeners, deaerators, filtration, steam and condensate system, air, and nitrogen), offshore gas processing, wellhead operations, aromatic recovery unit (sulfolane process), reformer feed preparation, hydrotreating of Naphtha, Benzene and Toluene separation, and refinery tank farm operations. He presently holds a Chair position of "educational training and research" of chemical engineering department at Worley Group and actively involved in educational research and training. Deepak Sharma is an experienced Senior Process Engineer presently working with Bayer and has about 13 years of work experience in the chemical industry. He received his master's in chemical engineering degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago USA and bachelor?s in chemical engineering degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. He has extensive experience in process design, manufacturing, optimization, simulated moving bed technology, purification, research and development, and scale-up. He has experience of successfully taking a process from lab scale to the manufacturing scale. Deepak has worked on various projects including grass-root projects, expansion projects, and managed several capital investment projects in the chemical industry.
