Christopher Higman Joins Ze-gen Scientific Advisory Board.BOSTON -- Ze-gen, Inc., a clean energy company providing advanced gasification gas·i·fy tr. & intr.v. gas·i·fied, gas·i·fy·ing, gas·i·fies To convert into or become gas. gas technology to convert waste streams into synthesis gas synthesis gas n. A mixture of gases made as feedstock, especially a fuel produced by controlled combustion of coal in the presence of water vapor. , announced today that it will welcome Christopher Higman to the company's Scientific Advisory Board. The Scientific Advisory Board focuses on overseeing and driving the technical development of Ze-gen's advanced gasification technology and offers scientific guidance on the company's technical direction. "Chris Higman is a very welcome addition to our Scientific Advisory Board," said Bill Davis For the artist, animator, creative director, see . For the baseball player, see .
Mr. Higman's first contact with gasification was commissioning a producer gas plant in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. in 1968. He joined Lurgi in 1975 and where he spent the next 27 years, mostly involved with gasification and related technologies. He has been responsible for design, project management and start-up of a number of ammonia and methanol plants based on the gasification of heavy residues. Other projects for which he was responsible include the gas production units at both the Bintulu and Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids plants and the IGCC/hydrogen production facility at Shell's Pernis, Netherlands refinery. Before taking up a corporate management position at Lurgi in 1997, he was Head of Gas Technology. Mr. Higman is currently an independent consultant specializing in gasification and related technologies. Mr. Higman graduated in 1966 from the University of Oxford and received his M.Sc. from the University of the Witwatersrand Due to the 1959 Extension of University Education Act the school was only allowed to register a small number of black students for most of the apartheid era, even though several notable black anti-apartheid leaders graduated from the university. , Johannesburg. In addition to co-authoring the book "Gasification" he has presented papers on gasification technology at a wide variety of conferences. He is a contributor to Ullmanns Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Oxford. He has a number of patents in the field. About Ze-gen, Inc: Ze-gen, Inc. is a renewable energy company that is emerging as a leader in the development of advanced gasification technology for converting wood debris and other solid waste streams into a synthesis gas (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 ) mixture of carbon monoxide carbon monoxide, chemical compound, CO, a colorless, odorless, tasteless, extremely poisonous gas that is less dense than air under ordinary conditions. It is very slightly soluble in water and burns in air with a characteristic blue flame, producing carbon dioxide; and hydrogen gas. This syngas is a renewable fuel which can be used to offset consumption of fossil fuels in conventional power and industrial facilities. Ze-gen recently secured $20 million in Series B financing, and is poised to be the market leader in the environmentally friendly re-purposing of waste streams into renewable energy. For more information and to watch a Ze-gen feature on the Science Channel, visit www.ze-gen.com. |
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