Katia AZARIAN, BEng, MBA

Katia AZARIAN  
Project Engineer
 

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Headquarters
MIDLAND, Michigan,  USA
 

DOW Headquarters, Midland, Michigan - USA The Great Lakes Bay Area

• Business administration and management - corporate structure
• Chemical Engineering
• Water Purification, Wastewater Treatment, Biosorption

• MBA  Business Administration, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

• B.Eng  Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 

CV Brief :                          

Katia AZRIAN has recently been appointed a Project Engineer with the DOW CHEMICAL Corporation in Midland, Michigan, USA.  Following her basic Chemical Engineering degree at McGill she gained some experience working with CEA in Montreal.  Then she obtained her MBA at the Pepperdine University in California. Her early R&D work expanded into the fields of environmental engineering, systems analysis and biosorption. 

• Chemical Engineer, Dow Chemical Corporation, USA (2007-Present)

• Expert Consulting:  Water quality, Technical and Analytical Methodology

• Chemical Engineer:  CAE Inc., Montreal, Canada (2000-2004)

Biosorption process : 

• Development of new biosorbent materials

• Establishment of equilibrium relationships for metal biosorption
• Biosorption of Heavy Metals
• Process performance optimization of flow-through (bio)sorption systems

  Environmental Physical Chemistry : 

Water pollution by toxic heavy metals (mercury, lead and others) is an urgent problem, especially in areas generating large amounts of industrial waste and in mining regions.  Many types of natural materials, whether of mineral origin, such as clay, or of organic origin, such as biological debris, contain molecules that can react with and trap metal pollutants and thus purify contaminated water. The aim is to discover which materials most effectively immobilize toxic metals and to optimize their cost-effective applications.  These studies could be very theoretical aimed at understanding the phenomena involved, or very practical in developing and applying the remediation process.