Experience

Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc.

• United States
• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Process Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Praxair, Inc - a Linde Company

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Professional

  • Dec 1996 - Nov 2020

  Research and Development Hydrogen and Energy Responsible for developing advanced hydrogen and syngas production, purification, and liquefaction processes Designed and built laboratory-scale reactors for testing hydrogen production and purification processes Designed a cold box process to produce 35 MMSCFD of carbon monoxide from syngas Led pilot-scale testing of a TSA unit for removing water and CO2 from syngas for cold box feed Conducted process and cost analyses of several different hydrogen production processes Program manager for internal and DOE programs to develop palladium alloy membranes Developed advanced membrane purge processes to reduce energy consumption Designed and tested pilot-scale unit to produce high-purity hydrogen for PEM fuel cells Integrated membrane into a water-gas-shift reactor to increase hydrogen yield Awarded 20 U.S. patents for developing novel industrial gas processes and equipment with others pending Wrote ten successful proposals to the U.S. Department of Energy that received a total of over $18,000,000 in government funding Program manager for Department of Energy programs to reduce energy requirement for hydrogen liquefaction by improving the ortho-para conversion process Program manager for Department of Energy program to design, build, and operate a hydrogen fueling station at LAX International Airport Developed a process to remove CO2 from blast furnace gas that also produces hydrogen Specified new catalyst for xenon and krypton purification that reduced cost by $1 million/yr Designed, built, and tested laboratory and pilot-scale reactors to develop a process to produce syngas using ceramic membranes Designed new processes for hydrogen and syngas production using ceramic oxygen membranes Participated in ISO TC 97 WG 12 to develop standards for hydrogen purity for fuel cells Show less



Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corp

• Senior Engineer

  • Mar 1994 - Dec 1996

  Research and Development Polyolefin Process Development Developed and implemented a process to improve polypropylene impact copolymers Led successful commercial-scale test runs at Union Carbide and LG-Caltex (South Korea) plants Produced random copolymers with improved film processing and product properties Research and Development Polyolefin Process Development Developed and implemented a process to improve polypropylene impact copolymers Led successful commercial-scale test runs at Union Carbide and LG-Caltex (South Korea) plants Produced random copolymers with improved film processing and product properties