Eric Scharpf

Dr Eric Scharpf

BChE Honours University of Delaware, PhD Chemical Engineering Princeton University

Contract Lecturer

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Biography

Dr. Scharpf has twenty years of professional experience and is widely recognized as an expert in chemical process safety, efficiency analysis and optimisation. He has led many safety lifecycle projects in chemical processing, energy and machine automation applications. He has developed and teaches several of the exida.com safety and reliability analysis courses and leads the consulting business in Australasia. He has published numerous reviewed journal articles as well as the leading textbook on SIL selection. He developed several of the cryogenic gas processing, combustion, and separation techniques currently used for hydrogen, synthesis gas, and power generation. He was formerly a Process Chemical Engineer with a Fortune 200 gas and chemical processing company. His principal work responsibilities have included research and development, project execution, and operations / manufacturing efficiency, safety, and reliability improvements in the bulk gas and specialty chemicals industry. He previously conducted research and development for an international oil production and processing corporation. He also teaches several process, energy, and safety related courses at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has authored more than 15 US and international patents. Dr. Scharpf has a B.Ch.E. from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, both in the United States.

Current teaching

Research areas

  • Heat Pump Drying Technology
  • Process Safety Engineering
  • Hydrogen Processing

Publications

  • Safety Integrity Level Selection ISBN 1-55617-777-1 (ISA 2002)
  • “Safety Instrumented Systems – Working Though the Hype” What’s New In Process Technology, Vol. 21 No. 6 (2007) pp6-8.
  • “Linking Consumer Energy Efficiency with Security of Supply Energy Policy” Journal of Energy Policy Vol. 35 No. 5 (2007) pp3025-3035 with C.G. Carrington and J.P. Rutherford.
  • “Dehumidifier Drier with Reversible Airflow” Int. Patent PCT/NZ2004/000039. 1 March 2004. With C.G. Carrington and Z. Sun.
  • “Cryogenic Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Production with Membrane Permeate Expander” US Patent 6,568,206 B2. 27 May 2003.