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Mark’s practice includes intellectual property matters and related issues.
Mark has over nine years of experience as a chemical engineer, including three years with an engineering consulting firm providing on-site energy assessments for the industrial customers of a Fortune 500 energy company. As a consultant to the pulp and paper, refining, and petrochemical industries, he has identified, developed, and implemented numerous energy/process optimization projects that resulted in substantial financial and environmental benefit.
During his graduate studies, Mark introduced the novel concept of property integration, a component-less design paradigm which allows chemical engineering process design and optimization to be performed based upon chemical properties rather than individual chemical species or components.
Mark has co-authored numerous papers and conference presentations on chemical process performance optimization using advanced process integration methodologies, tools, and techniques.
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
"Componentless Design of Recovery and Allocation Systems: A Functionality-Based Clustering Approach," M.D. Shelley & M.M. El-Halwagi, 24 Computers & Chemical Engineering 2081-91 (2000).
"Techno-Economic Feasibility and Flowsheet Synthesis of Scrap Tire/Waste Plastic Liquefaction, " M.D. Shelley & M.M. El-Halwagi, 31 J. Elastomer & Plastic 232-54 (1999).
"Thermodynamic Analysis of Trinitrotoluene Biodegradation and Mineralization Pathways," M.D. Shelley et al., 50 Biotechnology & Bioengineering 198-205 (1996).
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Member -
State Bar of Texas
Registered Professional Engineer (Texas)
Houston Young Lawyers Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Institute of Chemical Engineers | 