Jeff Weinfeld, Ph.D.
Senior Process Engineer
Experience
Senior Process Engineer, Trimeric Corporation, August 2025 – Present
Development Engineer, Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. (OGT), March 2021 - July 2025
Graduate Student Intern, Eastman Chemical Company, May 2017 – August 2017
Research Assistant, UT Austin Separations Research Program, June 2016 – August 2016
Fields of Experience
Dr. Weinfeld is a chemical engineer with extensive experience in process research, development, and engineering across the oil & gas and chemical industries. Through his graduate research and industry roles, Dr. Weinfeld has led plant simulation, experimental studies, and model development for a range of technically challenging applications.
Specific areas of experience include:
- Rate-based simulation of gas absorption processes, including CO2 capture, natural gas treating, and glycol dehydration
- Research and development of advanced distillation technologies, such as reactive distillation columns and dividing wall columns
- Creation of fundamental process models and application of numerical models to physical systems
- Detailed modeling of separations columns and solvent absorption processes
- Lab-scale design, operation, and evaluation of reaction and separations technology
- Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling and experimentation, including vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE), liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE), and liquid-phase reaction kinetics
- Standard and reactive distillation process simulation
Education & Training
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 3.8/4.0 GPA, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, 3.9/4.0 GPA, University of Rochester, 2016
Honors and Awards
The University of Texas at Austin, Thrust 2000 Fellowship, 2016-2020
Phi Beta Kappa, 2016
Tau Beta Pi, 2015
NCAA Academic All-America Football Team, University of Rochester, 2015
Publications/Presentations/Patents
(see separate publications list)
