Professor Godwin-Joseph Igwe is an Inventor and Author of several books. He has taught in various Universities (RSUST (Nigeria)), Texas A&M University, Prairie View A&M University, Texas). For over 10 years, he worked with one of the premier Chemical and Petrochemical Multinational Corporations in the world (E.I. DuPont, and Continental Oil Corporation, Conoco), and served variously as Senior Staff Engineer, Senior Research Engineer, and Senior Information Scientist. He is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Petroleum & Gas Engineering, and was Director, Centre for Gas, Refining & Petrochemicals, Institute of Petroleum Studies, University of Port Harcourt. Professor Igwe is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas, and COREN (Nigeria), and founding Membership Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigeria section. He earned a Dipl.-Ing. Degree from University of Kiel, Germany, (1977), M.Phil. from University of Leeds, (1981) and Ph.D. from University of Bradford, England (1983), all in Chemical Engineering. His research interest is in the area of Refining and petrochemical applications.