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Bi-Zeng Zhan is an ART/CLG Hydrocracking R&D Manager working in the Chevron Technology Center office in Richmond, California. He joined ART/CLG in 2018. Dr. Zhan has more than 15 yr of experience in refining industry R&D and has held several roles at the Chevron Research Center. He earned his PhD in chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and has more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been granted more than 20 U.S. patents.

Jacob Fritz is a Process Engineer at Chevron with 24 yr of experience in the oil refining, oil production, petrochemical and wastewater treatment industries. His experience includes process unit design, supporting refinery unit operations, creating simulations, performing feasibility and revamp studies, personnel supervision and development, oversight of day-to-day process engineering tasks and conducting performance tests. Fritz has additional experience with a number of process technologies, including gasoil hydrocracking, slurry hydrocracking, chemical enhanced oil recovery, naphtha, jet, diesel, gasoil, renewables, residue hydrotreating, HF alkylation, crude oil distillation, vacuum distillation, delayed coking, fuel gas treating, penex isomerization, hydrogen production, and naphtha/jet merox. Fritz earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and works in the Chevron Technology Center in Richmond, California.

Dick Somers is an ART/CLG Manager of Sales and Services EMEA/Senior Technical Service Engineer working in a hybrid role out of the Chevron office in the Netherlands, and is responsible for several hydrocrackers and hydrotreaters in the EMEA region. He joined ART in 2012 and he has more than 20 yr of experience in the refining industry. Somers earned an MS degree in chemical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands.