Ed Grave

Ed Grave earned his master of science from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1982. He started at Lummus Technical Center on petrochemical projects, then joined Mobil Research & Development in 1990 as a mass transfer specialist. Retiring from ExxonMobil in 2017, he was the upstream senior technical advisor for fractionation and separation. His team handled research, design, training, and troubleshooting for ExxonMobil's fractionating and separation systems. Grave received a Lifetime Achievement award in 2015 for Innovation and Creativity Excellence, particularly for developing cMIST™ technology.

He led the Separations Technology Research (STAR) Program and served as vice-chair at SPE’s Separations Technology Technical Section. From 2016 to 2017, Grave was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer. He also represented ExxonMobil at Fractionation Research Inc. for more than 20 years, contributing to distillation technology through the Design Practices and Executive Committees.