Wayne Blaylock Email & Phone Number

Bethesda, MD, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Led commercial negotiations and contracting for the long-term ethane supply agreements for Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero project. Commercial manager for Dow’s ethane portfolio including contract management for ethane supply, transport, and storage.

Houston, Texas

Responsible for delivering on business development projects globally, including identifying opportunities, analyzing alternatives, and negotiating agreements in support of Dow’s growth objectives.

Houston, Texas

Lead Feedstocks & Energy business’s commodity fundamentals team, which covers crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs for Dow. We apply fundamental analysis based on macroeconomic input and commodity market dynamics to develop supply/demand models, produce price forecasts, identify market opportunities, and support strategic decision making.

Houston, Texas

Analysis of feedstock market fundamentals as part of Dow's commodity risk management team.

Midland, Michigan

Engineering and Process Science, Core Research and Development

Midland, Michigan

Process Chemistry and Development Group, Core Research and Development

-Performed periodic boundary condition Density Functional Theory calculations to study the thermochemistry and kinetics of steam methane reforming over nickel and silver-alloyed nickel catalysts-Developed and applied statistical thermodynamics to study heterogeneous catalysis at industrially-relevant temperatures and pressures.-Developed and applied ab.

-Served as process engineering lead to a multi-disciplinary team establishing the design criteria and process flow diagrams during preliminary design of a proposed chemical processing facility for nuclear materials. -Applied process control to establish the safety basis for the operation of a material accountability system-Established operational.

Conducted engineering and public policy research on the proliferation resistance of Generation IV nuclear energy systems, sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society.

-Developed an Excel-based tool for the calculation of pressure drop in compressible fluid flow networks including multiple nodes and branches-Defined process flow parameters to be used in preliminary design for a dissolution, re-crystallization, and drying system using chemical process simulation software-Designed a passive phase separator for the removal.

Phd, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: MIT Science Policy InitiativeThesis: "Computational Heterogeneous Catalysis Applied to Steam Methane Reforming.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Associated Scholars Guild, Honors Council, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers.