The Becht Team
Below you will find brief biographies of key Becht personnel. Click on one of the functional areas to bring up persons engaged in that service area..
*** Please note that the listing below is representative of the quality of Becht’s staff and not an exhaustive listing of all personnel ***
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David M. Taylor, P.E.
David Taylor is a Chemical Engineer with 15 years of project management, petroleum refining and fuels additive product research and development. His career includes process engineering support of Fluidized Catalytic Cracking, HF and Sulfuric Acid Alkylation, Naphtha Reforming and Hydro-processing technologies. In addition, David has rotations as a gasoline and distillate blender in Economics and Planning, Process Engineering Group Supervision, and Refinery Operations. Other specialties in the refining industry include process simulation background in Pro II and HYSYS. His R&D background includes aftermarket fuel additive product development and quality assurance. David has managed projects ranging from FEED studies including FEL-0 to FEL-3, Cold Eyes Reviews, Root Cause Failure Analysis, and process unit startup support.
David holds a BS degree from Louisiana Tech and an MS degree from North Carolina State University, both in Chemical Engineering.
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Dave Dewees, PE

Gerrit Buchheim, PE

Jeremy Staats, PE

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