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Walter J. Chappas, Jr., PhD – is the Chief Technology Officer of PetroBeam.
Mieczyslaw (“Mietek”) Boduszynski, PhD – is a consultant with Connexsys Engineering. Dr. Boduszynski brings over 25 years of scientific research with Chevron and more than 20 years of academic research involving several universities in the US and Europe. He has published many books and numerous papers related to the chemistry and processing of asphaltenes. Dr. Boduszynski earned his PhD in chemistry from the Technical University of Silesia in Poland.
Jean-Louis Bol – is a co-founder of Ion Beam Applications (“IBA”), the global leader in electron beam accelerators with approximately 80% of the installed power worldwide, and serves as President of IBA Industrial. He has over 30 years of experience in developing particle accelerators and e-beam market applications. Under Mr. Bol's leadership, IBA industrial has become the world leader in electron and proton accelerators for industrial applications, including medical device sterilization, food pasteurization, safety and detection, oil upgrading, and crystal modification. Mr. Bol began his professional career at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
David Geddes – is President of PREP Consulting, a firm specializing in refinery economics and planning. His experience includes twenty years at Bechtel Corporation. He has developed feasibility studies and economic evaluations for several refineries and petrochemical plants in the United States, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America. While at Bechtel, he managed the group that developed the PIMS linear programming system, which is widely used in the refining and petrochemical industry for economic decision-making. Mr. Geddes received a B S in Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines and a MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Peter Kilpatrick, PhD – is the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is renowned for his research on the colloidal and molecular properties of crude oil. He has consulted for over 20 global companies on petroleum chemistry and processing. Previously, Dr. Kilpatrick served as the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Chairman at North Carolina State University. Dr. Kilpatrick received an AB degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, from Occidental College and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. |
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