Joseph W. Magee

Background

About Joseph W. Magee

Ph.D. Senior Process Safety Chemist at DEKRA Process Safety since 2013 with previous 31 years at Rohm and Haas and then Dow Chemical. I started my career in acrylate monomers process research but later specialized in chemical reactivity hazards testing and analysis, notably ARC, reaction calorimetry, VSP, analytical calorimetry and thermal analysis (DSC, TGA)- Managed corporate process safety lab at Rohm and Haas - Modernized instrumentation in new corporate based process safety laboratory - Introduced RC1 Reaction Calorimeter to company - won Otto Haas Award - Successfully employed RC1 on processes across all business lines - Small molecule chemistry - Online crystalliztion studies (using FBRM)- Online IR (ReactIR)- Polymerization processes (solution, suspension, and emulsion polymerizations)- Azo dye processes - Gas reagents, pressure reactions, pyrrophoric reaction intermediates and products - Analytical calorimetry (titration calorimetry)- Analysis of catalysts by calorimetry - Thermal analysis (Tg, TGA) of polymers - Microcalorimetry - heats of reaction/mixing, reaction rates, catalysis - Process safety (Accelerated Rate calorimetry, VSP for ERS sizing)- Experimental studies to size emergency relief vents for monomer storage tanks - Experimental model of unscheduled acrylic acid polymerization - rates and detection methods - Acrylate monomer process research/development/start up of brand new plant with new specialty monomer process - Monomer inhibitors - mechanisms and test methods - Excellent written and oral communication skills - Excellent customer interactions (educating on capabilities, project status updates, final results)- Worked with plant, engineering, and product areas - Publications and external presentations on process safety and calorimetry topics - Familiar with modern analytical techniques for polymer characterization - Well indoctrinated in work safety culture of large companies