Advanced Energy Research Names New Chief Technology Officer; Dr. Jack Durham to Run TrueFuel Development.Business Editors ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2001 Advanced Energy Research Corporation today announced the appointment of Dr. Jack Durham as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Durham developed TrueFuel(TM) for AERC AERC African Economic Research Consortium AERC Adult Education Research Conference AERC American Endurance Ride Conference AERC Alcohol Education and Research Council (UK) AERC Association of European Rarities Committees . TrueFuel is an alternative fuel, similar to synthetic gas or Syngas
Syngas (from synthesis gas) is the name given to a gas mixture that contains varying amounts of carbon monoxide and hydrogen generated by the gasification of a carbon containing fuel to a gaseous product with . TrueFuel offers a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels. Dr. Durham was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and for 27 years, entering as a senior research chemist and quickly becoming a science program manager. Dr. Durham is a physical chemist with training and experience in surface chemistry, catalysis, photochemistry photochemistry, study of chemical processes that are accompanied by or catalyzed by the emission or absorption of visible light or ultraviolet radiation. A molecule in its ground (unexcited) state can absorb a quantum of light energy, or photon, and go to a , and dispersed particles. He earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a Canadian university located in the province of New Brunswick. The university has two main campuses: the principal campus founded in 1785 in Fredericton and a smaller campus which was opened in Saint John in 1964. , Canada. Dr. Durham was the science advisor to the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. Administrator on the air pollution risks of 789 oil wells set afire by Iraq in Kuwait. After leaving EPA, he consulted for companies needing science advice in fire suppression, alternative energy development, and 3rd-party product and management registrations. "Under my technological leadership, we expect to make TrueFuel the leading source of alternative energy," Dr. Durham said. "TrueFuel has a high potential to displace other fuel technologies, including solar cells, as the fuel of choice for the world's new wave of independent, small energy districts. We believe that TrueFuel is the first bridge to a local, renewable hydrogen energy economy. TrueFuel will replace fossil fuels by operating almost seamlessly with the World's existing inventory of engines and industrial heating devices." At the EPA, Dr. Durham managed many key research projects and programs in air pollution, advanced and new fuel technologies, acidic deposition, and global change. The projects and programs relevant to fuel gases include global climate change, environmental problems in advanced coal, oil shale, and petroleum fuel liquefaction liquefaction, change of a substance from the solid or the gaseous state to the liquid state. Since the different states of matter correspond to different amounts of energy of the molecules making up the substance, energy in the form of heat must either be supplied to and gasification gas·i·fy tr. & intr.v. gas·i·fied, gas·i·fy·ing, gas·i·fies To convert into or become gas. gas in surface vessels and in-situ. Also, he managed programs that evaluated commercial forestry for producing wood to replace coal in power plants, harvesting and burning charred wood from forest fires to fuel small turbine generators connected to the electric power grid, gasifying biomass to produce fuel gases, digesting biomass and animal waste to produce methane, capturing garbage landfill gases for fuel cells, extracting methane dissolved in ocean water for powering engines, and a variety of ways to convert waste (e.g., used rubber tires) to clean fuels for fuel cells and engines. Advanced Energy Research Corporation develops and makes TrueFuel. TrueFuel is also known as HycoFuel(TM). TrueFuel is ideal for gas turbines, distributed power, and combined heat and power (CHP) applications. |
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