Pre-Zeton

I spent 5 yrs working in process technology development and consulting roles, and have patents related to that work assigned to previous employers. My focus was on ground- and wastewater treatment and contaminated site remediation.

With Zeton Inc

I retired from Zeton Inc. after 26 yrs.

At Zeton I worked on a very wide variety of different types of projects. Projects have varied from early phase work, where I helped clients design experiments and apparatus to get good lab data for scale-up, to the design and construction of first of kind pilot plants, larger demonstration scale plants, and assistance with scale-up to commercial. Projects involved petroleum and natural gas and chemicals (hydrotreating, gas to liquids etc.), biofuels/biofeedstocks, primary metals, materials including battery materials, polymers and fine chemicals.

Spitfire Research

I’ve been practicing as a sole proprietor consultant in relation to environmental, water treatment and process development issues since before joining Zeton in 1996. Spitfire Research Inc. is just the most recent embodiment of a long standing private consulting business.

Spitfire’s scope includes, but is not limited to:

• determining the correct number and scale of stages in a in process technology scale-up
• scale-up risk assessment
• review of flowsheets and process models
• evaluation of pilot program results
• investigating research and development claims for validity
• technology readiness level assessment
• assistance with R&D program development
• expert witness work
• technoeconomic evaluations
• decarbonization strategy guidance
• assessment of competing technologies
• talks and focused teleconferences on matters related to hydrogen, energy and decarbonization options
• electric alternatives to fired equipment