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Dept. Chemical Engineering |
e-mail: schreiber@eng.fsu.edu |
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FAMU-FSU College of
Engineering |
Office: (850)
410-6682 |
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2525 Pottsdamer Street |
Dept: (850)
410-6151 |
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Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046 |
Fax: (850)
410-6150 |
PROFILE
Chemical engineer, manager,
educator with twenty-five years of R&D experience in specialty organic
chemicals; technical and supervisory responsibilities spanning process
conceptualization, laboratory measurements, bench tests, pilot studies, plant
trials, and equipment design & debottlenecking.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FAMU-FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 2000
- present
Department of Chemical
Engineering, Tallahassee, FL
Professor
Director of the Unit
Operations Laboratory, coordinating and teaching all aspects of the
two-semester lab sequence for undergraduates in fluid flow, heat transfer,
separations, and kinetics.
INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. 1979 - 2000
Research
& Development, Union Beach, NJ
Increasing
technical and management responsibilities in R&D, leading to the position
of Vice President and Director for Fragrance Chemical Development Department.
Management
§ Oversaw an
R&D Pilot Plant, whose “classical” mission was to scale up new chemical
processes.
§ Directed two
departments, with a total operating budget of $3,500,000, including 25 chemical
engineers, organic chemists, and chemical operators.
§ Participated on
teams and committees with senior IFF managers to innovate, enhance, and align
chemical process technology throughout the company.
§ Coordinated efforts
of the R&D Safety Council to provide strategic leadership for safety at the
R&D site (250 employees).
Process Development
§ Directed the
development of twenty proprietary aroma chemicals and of forty new processes
for existing chemicals. The development
team introduced these processes at production facilities in the United States,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and China.
§ Co-led a
Research, Development, and Production team that commercialized an important
aroma chemical, which involved non-traditional chemistry and non-standard
equipment, in only 18 months from research inception to plant demonstration.
§ Developed
reliable measurement and estimation techniques for vapor pressure of aroma
chemicals; IFF vapor pressure estimates are now used throughout the fragrance
industry.
§ Supervised the
estimation and compilation of physical properties for over 600 IFF materials;
co-conceived Physical Property Tabular Sheet format.
§ Introduced
concept of process computer simulation at IFF; guided initial applications in
modeling batch distillation and batch reactions.
§ Formulated rules
of thumb for estimating cooling capacity for common batch reactors.
§ Evaluated the
effect of non-condensables on condenser performance for the first time at IFF.
§ Guided
preparation of a “Pilot Plant Mixing Studies Protocol” for R&D.
§ Integrated a
reaction calorimeter into the R&D program; this instrument has
revolutionized chemical development at IFF, extending the ability to scale up
reactions safely and reliably.
§ Instituted
extensive revisions of pilot plant operating procedures and equipment to ensure
effective and efficient regulatory compliance for air emission, waste water
discharge, hazardous waste, and chemical storage.
§ Initiated and
supervised the writing of sixty Standard Operating Procedures for nearly all
operating practices of the pilot plant, supporting laboratories, and utilities.
§ Ensured all
near-miss incidents thoroughly investigated and corrective measures implemented;
there has not been a lost-time accident in the R&D Pilot Plant since 1983.
§ Served as Hazard
Communication Coordinator for R&D.
§ Supervised
computer simulation for the design of a 3,000-kg/hr continuous distillation
unit, the first continuous still successfully operated at IFF.
§ Retrofitted the
then largest batch distillation unit at IFF to increase operating capacity by
50%; design features utilized by Engineering Dept. in the construction of later
units. Consulted extensively on the design or improvements of fifteen other
batch distillation units.
§ Designed and ran
continuous stirred tank reactor for highly exothermic oxidation reaction.
§ Designed feed
system, scrubber, and monitoring instruments to use hydrogen sulfide in
small-scale production facility.
§ Fixed numerous
steam-jet vacuum systems and trained plant personnel on test methods.
§ Supervised
design of a catch tank servicing the emergency vent lines of twelve pilot
vessels.
§ Introduced
reliable portable process instruments for equipment and process debugging.
§ Issued over
fifty major technical reports and process procedures. Well known for issuing meeting minutes promptly and accurately.
§ Directed
compilation of a “Process Writing Guidelines” manual for pilot processes.
§ Edited hundreds
of project reports written by Development engineers.
§ Guided summer
engineering interns on the preparation of reports for over twenty projects.
MAKHTESHIM CHEMICAL WORKS 1976-1978
Research
& Development, Beer Sheva, Israel
Development
Department
Pilot
Plant Engineer
§ Scaled up diverse chemical reactions including chlorination (gas phase and liquid phase), methoxylation, esterification, and hydrolysis for production of insecticides.
§ Optimized unit
operations such as vacuum distillation, filtration, and crystallization.
§ Participated in
plant start-ups.
§ Trained two new
laboratory technicians and supervised one summer engineering intern.
SHELL OIL COMPANY Summer 1969
Wood
River Refinery, Wood River, IL
Process
Engineer
§ Conducted trials
to evaluate disposal of waste oil using boiler
§ Optimized dosing
of additive to gasoline
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Summer
1966
Department
of Microbiology, Saint Louis, MO
Laboratory
Technician
EDUCATION
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Graduated with highest distinction.
Research
project: Computer calculations of multicomponent vapor-liquid equilibria.
This
work demonstrated that activity coefficients at infinite dilution may be used
to predict activity coefficients over the entire range of composition. Not only is the research article routinely
referenced in the VLE literature, the methodology is utilized in all of the
principal chemical engineering simulation software programs worldwide.
California Institute of Technology
Thesis title: “A Pulse NMR Trilogy: Anomalies,
Anisotropies, and Adsorption”
This
research demonstrated that NMR could provide important quantitative information
on the number, as well as nature, of various types of adsorption sites on
silica-alumina catalysts.
In addition to traditional
courses in chemical engineering, Dr. Schreiber gained a strong academic
background in physical chemistry and organic chemistry.
AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Lambda Upsilon
Honorable Mention, 1970 AIChE Student Problem Contest
National Science Foundation Traineeship 1971-1972
Union Oil Company Fellowship 1972-1973
National Science Foundation Traineeship 1974-1975
IFF Participative Manager Award 1987 (first time the award was offered)
IFF Participative Manager Award 1997 (first time the award was offered
to a prior recipient)
MILITARY
United States Army Reserves, Specialist 4 1970-1975
VOLUNTEERISM
Teacher, Monmouth County Adult Literacy Program 1999-2000
PUBLICATIONS
L. B. Schreiber and C. A. Eckert, “Use of Infinite Dilution Activity
Coefficients with Wilson’s Equation”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Design.
Develop., 10: 572 (1971).
W.-K. Rhim, D. D. Elleman, L. B. Schreiber, and R. W. Vaughan,
“Analysis of Multiple Pulse NMR in Solids II”, J. Chem. Phys., 60:
4595 (1974).
L. B. Schreiber and R. W. Vaughan, “The Chemical Shift Tensor for the
Hydroxyl Proton: Ca(OH)2”, Chem. Phys. Lett., 28: 586
(1974).
L. B. Schreiber and R. W. Vaughan, “A NMR Investigation of High Surface
Area Silica-Aluminas”, J. Catalysis, 40: 226 (1975).
R. W. Vaughan, L. B. Schreiber, and J. A. Schwarz, “Use of High
Resolution Solid State NMR Techniques for the Study of Adsorbed Species”, in Magnetic
Resonance in Colloid and Interface Science, ACS Symposium Series No. 34 (H.
A. Resing and C. G. Wade, Eds.), p. 275, 1976.
G. Tampy and L. B. Schreiber, “Adiabatic Calorimeter Evaluation for
Safe Process Scaleup: A Systematic Approach Illustrated with an Example”, in International
Symposium on Runaway Reactions, Pressure Relief Design, and Effluent Handling
(G. A. Melhem and H. G. Fisher, Eds.), AIChE, p. 65, 1998.