As the world's leading one-stop source for industry's process safety and optimization needs, the Chilworth Global has international consulting bases and laboratory testing facilities with state of the art dust explosion and electrostatic laboratories (with low humidity facility), and a specialist laboratory for the evaluation of thermal runaway reactions.

Chilworth employs a Doctorate Engineering and Scientific staff along with Graduate Engineers, Scientists and Technicians. Our senior consultants are internationally recognized experts in their specialist fields, and many have served on national and international standards committees.

With laboratories and offices in both the Princeton Corporate Plaza (NJ, USA) and the Chilworth Science Park (Southampton, England), our facilities are equipped with fire/explosion hazard evaluation laboratories and a well equipped engineering workshop and instrument fabrication site. Chilworth's specialist test apparatus includes:

Fire/Explosion Laboratory: 20L sphere, minimum ignition temperature ovens, auto-flammability cells, and adiabatic storage test equipment.
Chemical Reaction Laboratory: Mettler Toledo RC1 Reaction Calorimeter, Adiabatic Dewar Calorimeter, Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Accelerated Rate Calorimeter and Carius Tube
Electrostatics Laboratory: powder resistivity, liquid conductivity, charge decay time and powder chargeability equipment.
Research and Development Laboratory: wide range of analytical and diagnostic equipment.

The client base of Chilworth Global covers more than 20 countries, and includes manufacturing companies in the fine chemicals/pharmaceuticals, bulk organics, food stuffs, paints, resins/plastics, dyestuffs, pigments, agrochemicals, soaps/detergents, oil/petrochemicals, and the legal and insurance fields.

Bio's of Chilworth Experts

Vahid Ebadat, Ph.D., M.Inst.P, MIEE, C.Eng., C.Phys. is the CEO of Chilworth Global He has worked extensively as a process and operational hazards consultant for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries. Dr. Ebadat is a regular speaker at training courses on gas and vapor flammability, dust explosions, and controlling electrostatic hazards. He is a member of NFPA 77 Technical Committee on Static Electricity, NFPA 654 Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particular Solids and ASTM E27 Committee on Hazard Potential of Chemicals. Dr. Ebadat's research has culminated in the publication of numerous technical papers and articles.

David M. Heller, CSP, is the Director of Consulting and Training Services at Chilworth Technology, Inc. Mr. Heller is a chemical engineer with 34 years of experience in the process industries and 25 years in process safety. Mr. Heller has extensive experience in all aspects of process safety, with special emphasis in the areas of process hazard analysis, PSM auditing, and incident investigation. He has conducted training in PHA Leadership, PSM programs, and PSM auditing. Mr. Heller spent 5 years with the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board as an Investigations Manager and Lead Investigator. He has also worked as a Plant Safety Manager and Corporate PSM Manager. Prior to entering the safety field, Mr. Heller spent nine years in production, plant, and process engineering roles.

Thaddeus C. Speed, physicist and safety professional, is the Technical Director for Chilworth Technologies' explosives testing and analysis division, Safety Consulting Engineers, Inc. Mr. Speed has more than 25 years experience in hazards analysis, process and system safety, and in testing, evaluating and characterizing explosives and other energetic materials. He has published numerous papers on electrostatic discharge safety (ESD), explosives testing methods, ignition and initiation phenomena, in-process classification of energetic materials, and similar topics. B.S. Physics and Astronomy (1984); Certified Safety Professional (1994); approved by the DOT to examine explosives and recommend classifications (per 49 CFR 173.56) (1999).

Mr. Speed's explosives process hazards and characterization expertise is further enhanced by an in-depth understanding of system safety and the inter-related areas of facility siting, regulatory compliance, process safety management, material characterization and incident analysis. He has developed courses and trained government officials, plant managers, other safety professionals and line operators in various aspects of explosives safety, both as general courses and as tailored training for specific issues, companies and operations.

David E. Kaelin, Sr., B.S.Ch.E., Mr. Kaelin has over 25 years experience in the specialty chemical manufacturing industry and 15 years specializing as a Process Safety Engineer. He has participated in the design and construction of numerous chemical processing facilities and provided support and training in all areas of PSM. As a Process Safety Engineer he has led process hazard analysis, risk assessments and facility siting reviews. At the corporate level he has created and taught courses in PSM and hazard recognition methods.

Mr. Kaelin has led or provided technical assistance to many fire, explosion and runaway reaction incident investigations including incidents involving nitrations, chlorinations, hydrogenations, thermal heat transfer fluids, spontaneous combustion, dust explosions and thermal oxidizer and incinerator operations.

Mr. Kaelin is an expert in the application of hazard recognition techniques including: HAZOP, FMEA. What-If, Fault Tree Analysis, Risk Screening and Checklist. He is an active member of AIChE, and NFPA.

Warren Copeland, B.A. Ch., is a senior scientist at Chilworth Global For 10 years prior to coming to Chilworth Mr. Copeland specialized in chemical process safety and the analysis of process thermal hazards for the pharmaceutical industry (sanofi-aventis, Aventis Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., and Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Inc.). He has more than 30 years experience with lab research and development, semi-works, pilot plant and manufacturing operations related to new product development in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Copeland is also experienced in lab scale pilot plant design, fabrication and operation as well as analytical chemistry, organic synthesis, and high pressure processes. His work involved routine lab operations as well as the installation, start up and trouble shooting of new plant and lab facilities of sanofi-aventis, Aventis Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., Rhône-Poulenc, Inc., Rohm and Haas, and Du Pont. He is a member of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Swati Umbrajkar, Ph.D. is the Acting Manager of the Chemical Process Evaluation Group. Dr. Umbrajkar received her Doctorate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the synthesis of metal/metal oxide nanocomposites; analysis of highly energetic materials using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and a number of post analysis techniques to characterize the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of a test system.

Dr. Umbrajkar consults with clients on a variety of process safety issues including but not limited to high-pressure DSC cell tests, adiabatic calorimetry (ARC and ADC), reaction calorimetry (RC-1), all of which allow for the safe scale-up of batch and semi-batch processes. She has expertise in determining self-acceleration decomposition temperature (SADT) and time to maximum rate (TMR), which are critical issues associated with the storage of bulk materials. As the Manager and Consultant in the Chemical Process Evaluations Laboratory, she is proficient in the interpretation of data for a wide variety of process safety scenarios. She has authored several articles in the fields of, 'Synthesis and Analysis of Highly Energetic Materials' and 'Chemical Process Safety'.

She received the Excellence Award from NASA for her services in NASA's SHARP student program in 2005 and Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) students at the New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates (NJCEP) in 2006. She was awarded the Best Graduate Student Research Overall presented at the Graduate Student Research Day on November 6, 2006. She is also the recipient of the 'best presenter' award at the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Young Professionals in Science and Engineering Conference (Northeast Section) in November 2006. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Muhammad Qureshi, Ph.D., is a Process Safety Specialist at Chilworth Global He provides consulting services in dust explosion and electrostatic hazard assessment and is also responsible for standard and customized electrostatic testing. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2006. His background research includes phase interactions in multiphase flow, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and computer aided engineering. He received the Excellence Award from NASA for his services in NASA's SHARP Student program in 2003. He is also the recipient of Best Presenter Award of the graduate student at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is an "invited reviewer" for the Mechanics Research Communications on a regular basis. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering.

Richard W. Prugh, M.S.Ch.E., CSP, PE, Mr. Prugh is a Senior Process Safety Specialist at Chilworth and provides process safety engineering expertise to clients at large and small plants, to improve the safety of chemical manufacturing operations. During his career with the Du Pont Company, he was involved in instrument engineering, explosion-hazards testing, explosives manufacturing and testing, pilot-plant supervision, organic-chemicals research, safety and fire protection audits, and process-safety consulting. Since 1985, he has provided process safety services to chemical and petrochemical plants in thirty-two Statest and in twelve foreign countries. He is the author of "Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation" and 25 presentations to Loss Prevention Symposia, and he prepared the "Toxicity" section for the 2008 issue of "Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook" and the "Safety" sections for three encyclopedias. His recent experience involved overseeing the safety analyses of nerve-gas destruction plants and auditing the safety status of a dozen off-shore installations, including evaluation of management and employee safety culture.

Vladimir Stetsovsky, M.S., is a Senior Process Safety Specialist with over 19 years experience in the manufacturing industry and utilities, and 7 years specializing as an Electrostatic Safety Engineer. His career involved converting and specialty chemical manufacturing with numerous hazardous chemicals in both batch and continuous operations. He has participated in the design and construction of several large chemical and converting processing facilities and provided support and training in all areas of Process Electrostatic Safety Management. As an Electrical Engineer he has led process hazard analysis, risk assessments and facility siting reviews. At the corporate level he has created installation specifications and taught courses in ESD and hazard recognition methods and provided technical safety support to manufacturing sites producing adhesives and pressure sensitive products.

Mr. Stetsovsky has led or provided technical assistance to many fire and explosion incident investigations including incidents involving thermal heat transfer fluids, spontaneous combustion, dust explosions and thermal oxidizer and incinerator operations. In these investigations he has provided valuable insight into the root cause and made practical suggestions for eliminating or controlling the identified hazards.

Steven J. Luzik is a Senior Process Safety Specialist at Chilworth Technology, Inc. with over 30 years experience in the area of fire and explosion hazards including gas/vapor explosions, dust explosions and fire and explosion protection strategies. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Pennsylvania and a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator (CFEI) with the National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI). As a former Mine Safety and Health Administration [MSHA] manager and technical specialist, he has investigated a multitude of incidents involving flammable vapors, gases and dusts that have included surface and underground mining facilities and industrial facilities where fires and explosions have occurred. He has conducted dust explosion hazard assessment at several coal-fired power plants.

He also has served as a moderator of a flammability and dust explosibility laboratory, processing requests from MSHA and other Federal agencies for testing to determine the flammability and explosibility properties of solids, liquids, dusts and vapors. In this capacity, he has been called upon to provide expert testimony on the explosibility hazards associated with the manufacturing, processing and handling of these materials. He is a member of the American Society for testing and Materials (ASTM) E-27 Committee on Hazardous Properties of Chemicals, the National Association of Fire Investigators (NAFI) and the National fire Protection Association (NFPA). He has authored numerous publications in the areas of fire and explosion prevention, protection and investigation.

David Y. Kohn, B.S. Ch., is a Chemist at Chilworth Global He has 8 years of experience in process safety testing, scale-up, optimization, transportation (UN/DOT regulations) and thermal runaway reactions. As a Chemist in the Chemical Reaction Hazards Laboratory, he is proficient in the performance of tests using RC1, ARC, Adiabatic Dewar and Carius Tube; he is skilled in a variety of transportation and storage testing; and he is experienced in the interpretation of data for process safety. He has co-authored papers on such topics as process safety and thermal instability of reactions. David has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1996.

Anand Kenchenpur, B.S., M.S., Ch.E., is the Flammability Group Manager. He has extensive experience in design, simulation and testing of highly customized tests for our clients in areas such as gas/vapor flammability, dust explosion hazard testing, thermal instability testing and electrostatic hazard testing. Being a chemical engineer, he is also experienced in characterizing the combustion, fire, and explosion properties of gases, liquids and solids. Anand received his Master's degree from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, SD. His other areas of experience include thermodynamics, heat transfer, reaction kinetics, data acquisition systems, and characterization of advanced materials using SEM, TEM, X-ray diffraction and Surface area analyzer.

Brian Kingsley, B.S. Ch.E. is a Process Safety Specialist at Chilworth Global and has over 24 years of engineering experience in the chemical manufacturing industry with over 12 years as a design consultant and 12 years within manufacturing facilities. His early years were spent designing and relocating polymer facilities under license from E. I. DuPont, a renowned leader in Process and Industrial Safety. The Process Safety aspects of design and operations were engrained into his daily activities for nearly a decade. Process Safety has likewise been a major responsibility is each of his subsequent positions. Mr. Kingsley has managed the design, construction and start-up of numerous chemical-processing facilities. In his role as a Process Safety Engineer, he has led process hazard analyses, risk assessments and facility siting reviews. He has also had diverse safety responsibilities beyond process safety including: fire safety systems (AFFF), gas detection/monitoring systems and construction safety management. He has provided training on all areas of PSM with emphasis on Management of Change and Process Safety Information.

Peter Engstrom, BS, ChE, CSP, PE, is Senior Process Safety Specialist with 30 years of industrial experience, including 13 years of dedicated experience in process/general safety, risk, and health, and 17 years as a process/project engineer. Mr. Engstrom's work experience includes over 20 years in the petroleum industry, including refining and oil production/drilling. Mr Engstrom has also worked in the bulk chemical pharmaceutical industry, and as an independent process safety engineering consultant working with clients in the petroleum, ethanol, metals extraction industries and academia. Mr. Engstrom's expertise include: 1) Process Hazards Analysis (PHAs) using the HAZOP, FMEA, PrelimPHA (HAZID), and What-If Techniques, 2) Incident Investigation using Causal Factors Charting and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) based on TapRoot® and SourceTM methodologies, 3) PSM and RMP Program Auditing using OSHA's PQV and recent NEP protocols, 4) OSHA Compliance using one-on-one interaction with employees discussing practical solutions to both OSHA 1910 and 1926 regulations as well as NFPA and API best practices, and 5) Safety Training using the Criterion Referenced Instruction (CRI) to develop and teach both process and general safety course tailored to participant's needs.

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