Ray Cocco

Ray is president of Particles in Motion, LLC, a consulting company focusing on complex granular-fluid hydrodynamics in commercial applications. Before his current role, Ray Cocco was with PSRI for 16 years, where he was President and CEO. Before PSRI, Ray spent 17 years with The Dow Chemical Company, where he led research and development efforts in numerous particle technology platforms, including the production of WoodStalkTM (a particleboard made of straw) for Dow BioProducts, the production of vinyl chloride monomer, and RCl oxidation using fluidized beds, the production of hydrocarbon using circulating fluidized beds, the development of polyolefin catalyst for fluidized beds, and in the production of aluminum nitride and silicon carbide ceramic powders using moving bed reactors. Today, he is a member of the University of Florida Chemical Engineering Advisory Board, Auburn University Chemical Engineering Alumni Committee, and University College at London’s CNIE. He is also on the editorial boards for Powder and Bulk Engineering, Powder Technology, and Frontiers in Chemical Engineering: Mixing and Particle Technology. Ray is the 2023 recipient of the AIChE PTF Lifetime Achievement Award.  He was the past chair of the AIChE Particle Technology Forum (Group 3), a past member of the AIChE Chemical Technology Operating Council (CTOC), and an AIChE Fellow. Ray was also the chairman of the World Congress in Particle Technology VIII in April 2018. He has over 80 publications, three book chapters, several patents, numerous invited presentations, and consults for industry, national labs, and universities regularly.