Chemical Engineer
Sweetwater Energy
Total years of experience :2 years, 0 Months
• Gained in-depth understanding of thermochemical pretreatment of biomass, including alkaline treatment & steam explosion.
• Experienced automated, temperature & pH controlled batch fermenters.
• Nearly doubled production without added capital; experimented on pilot plant to implement changes.
• Created PFD’s for plant. Researched technology, brought scientific instruments online & standardized their procedures.
• Conducted independent safety & operations audit that resulted in major positive procedural and structural changes.
• Gained in-depth understanding of fuel production. Proposed & brief economic analysis on methanol recovery (distillation).
• Created data-gathering program (using LabView) & device to test membrane photoswitcheable permeability
• Publications: E. Głowacki, K. Hunt, D. Abud, and K. L. Marshall: Photoswitchable Gas Permeation Membranes…SPIE (2010)
• Highly independent research on various pelletized fuel’s combustion in a continuous, Fluidized Bed Combustor.
• Studied efficiency of combustion by analyzing NOx, CO2, CO, O2, etc, from changing feed rates & operating temperatures.