Senior Scientist

• Jan 2023 - Present

Senior Associate

• Aug 2017 - Present

Assistant Professor

• Aug 2018 - Jan 2023

Research focused on renewable energies and thermochemical conversion of fuels, and collaboration on technical projects. Research focused on renewable energies and thermochemical conversion of fuels, and collaboration on technical projects.

Research Associate

• Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

Faculty Research Assistant

• Oct 2016 - Feb 2018

Lecturer

• Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

Lecturer for: CHE 165 - Senior Plant Design and Lab CHE 218 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Kinetics (Graduate) CHE 297 - Special Topics: Air Pollution Control Engineering (Graduate) Lecturer for: CHE 165 - Senior Plant Design and Lab CHE 218 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Kinetics (Graduate) CHE 297 - Special Topics: Air Pollution Control Engineering (Graduate)

Senior Research Engineer

• Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

Focused on a collaborative project between Umeå University, The University of Utah, and the SP Energy Technology Center in Piteå, Sweden to increase feasibility of continual biomass feed to pressurized entrained-flow reactors.

Postdoctoral Fellow

• Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

Aided in design, fabrication, and operation of a laboratory-scale entrained-flow reactor for use in fuel-ash behavior during pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion processes. Additional work included investigations of rapid heating of solid fuels and computational simulation of combustion and gasification kinetics.

Graduate Research Assistant

• May 2009 - May 2013

Graduate studies focused on design, fabrication, and operation of a sampling system in high-pressure entrained-flow gasifiers and of a high-pressure wire-mesh reactor. Empirical and theoretical modeling of gasifiers was also performed in addition to tasks with high-pressure thermogravimetric analyzers and laminar entrained-flow reactors. Research was partially funded in collaboration with industrial partner Eastman Chemical Company.

Research Assistant

• Mar 2005 - May 2009

Focal work comprised component fabrication and operation of a pilot-scale circulating fluidized bed as well as construction of a pilot-scale cement-preheater cyclone tower in collaboration with Portland Cement Association. Additional duties included installation and maintenance of instrumentation, electrical, and fluid systems.

Intern

• May 2008 - Aug 2008

Principal project incorporated the design and fabrication of solids tracer probes to determine residence time distributions for industrial-scale (100,000 lb/hr) circulating fluidized beds. Additional testing campaigns measured fluidization velocities and particle sphericities. Principal project incorporated the design and fabrication of solids tracer probes to determine residence time distributions for industrial-scale (100,000 lb/hr) circulating fluidized beds. Additional testing campaigns measured fluidization velocities and particle sphericities.