william e. partanen, pe

*** ***** *** ~ Chestertown, MD 21620

C: 301-***-**** ~ accrfm@r.postjobfree.com

engineering / business development

Dynamic, results-oriented professional experienced in public policy review,

feasibility studies, system design, construction and operational review of

a broad range of biomass energy projects. Adept at developing new business

opportunities, strategies and plans combined with the ability to speak

effectively with clients in defining complex issues in nontechnical terms.

Balances technical, financial and operational needs. Thinks outside-the-

box to provide creative solutions to complex problems.

Areas of Expertise:

. Requirements Analysis

. Prospecting / Closing Skills

. Negotiation

. Market Research

. Public Speaking

. Production Planning

. Project Management

. Government Energy Policies

. Business Development Strategy

. Presenting Technical Information

. Feasibility Studies

. Process Consulting

. Energy Strategy

. Wood Processing

. Combined Heat & Power

. Gasification

. Environmental Permitting

. Utility Retrofits

. Trash to Energy

. Materials Handling

. Landfill Gas CHP

.

Recent CAREER HIGHLIGHTs

. Set up new marketing program for large scale biomass gasification and

Modular Biomass CHP systems in NA.

. Identified energy markets for over 30,000,000 gallons of green fuel

produced from waste cooking oil and trap grease.

. Developed an industrial gas turbine CHP application to destroy VOC/HAP

emissions; eliminates the need for thermal oxidizers; results in millions

of dollars in energy savings for host facility.

. Lead engineering firm in the development of a solid fuel fired gas

turbine

Professional experience

Independent Consultant, partanen & Daughters, Inc., Chestertown, MD 2009 -

Present

. Consulting to various industries including waste-to-energy, wood

products, utilities, pulp and paper and manufacturing concerns.

. Market development for new energy products and technologies for

commercial and industrial applications.

Recent Projects

. Hired to introduce trendsetter gasification already commercialized in

Finland, to the North America market for Metso Power.

. Developed a marketing plan; prepared marketing materials; identified

market base; made presentations at a number of technical conferences;

published in major technical journals; established long and short term

market base; two active opportunities were being developed to use sorted

municipal solid waste as gasifier feedstock.

. Successfully co-fired waste cooking oil with coal at Virginia Tech;

identified this fuel to displace #6 FO in NYC's public and private

buildings; successfully tested this same product as an emulsion in the

production of asphalt; successfully tested as primary fuel in ESSROC

cement kiln.

. Economic and technical feasibility study along with preliminary

engineering to convert Coast Guard facilities from distillate fuel to

wood pellets in Sitka, Alaska.

. Economic and technical analysis of using energy crops to produce liquid

fuels and for heat and/or power generation for NREL.

. NREL economic and technical feasibility of Co-Firing Biomass and Coal at

Moderately Sized DoD Facilities

. Preliminary feasibility study for an integrated CHP energy facility using

wood waste, fish waste and municipal solid waste to produce wood pellets,

bio-boiler fuel and fertilizer along with steam for process and

electricity for on-site use and for sale in Alaska.

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professional experience Continued

Regional Manager, Mid-Atlantic Region, neill & Gunter Inc. 2000 - 2009

. Developed an extensive utility and industrial client base for this new

office with projected annual sales of $10MM.

New Business Opportunities Identified and Projects Secured

o Balance of plant engineering services on major gas cleanup

systems for Dominion Generation

o Installation of a 25 Mw combined heat and power (CHP) gas

turbine project at NIH.

o System retrofits for industrial facilities to improve process

efficiency and operating profits

o Several combined heat and power (CHP) system installations.

o Multi-million dollar major paper machine rebuild at PH

Glatfelter

o Energy conservation retrofits

o Landfill gas projects for PEPCO

Vice President, Engineering, BG technologies, USA, Inc. 1998 - 2000

. Developed new market strategy and an equipment redesign that was

projected to generate profits of approximately $12MM within five years

for this startup company.

. Biomass gasification system produced electrical energy from rice hulls,

chicken litter, coffee pulp and other biomass forms,

. Traveled throughout India, Philippines, Central and South America,

Indonesia marketing technology

. Packaged company which was successfully sold to a private investor.

Independent Consultant, partanen & Daughters, Inc., Chestertown, MD 1986 -

1998

. Complete managerial and technical responsibility for a $6M program to

engineer and build and successfully operate a solid fuel fired gas

turbine at WRI; funded by the DOE, NREL, VTT and private investor.

project is now in the commercialization phase.

. Owner's Engineer on a 500 tons per day (TPD) trash-to-energy facility in

Portland, Maine; involved from the proposal phase through startup. Lead

technical representative during over 100 hours of public hearings.

. Defined the initial handling equipment for a facility that would produce

400 TPD of recycled pulp produced from post-consumer mixed office waste

paper.

. Led a team specializing in the design / build installation of small CHP

gas turbine or gas engine power systems for hospitals, small industrial

complexes and institutions

. Several retrofit designs for RDF, MRF and mass burn trash facilities

education / professional affiliations

Registered Professional Engineer, Maine

BSME, Western New England University, Springfield, MA

AEEE, Electronics, Worcester Junior College, Worcester, MA

Graduate Credits, Business Administration & Human Relations

professional publications

Wrote several articles on the successful application of gasification which

were published in technical journals.

How Waste Organic Grease Can Solve Process Energy Needs, International

Biomass Conference, April 16 - 19, 2012

The SGT-300 VOC / HAP Mitigation System - An Innovative Method of

Destroying VOC/HAP's Using a Gas Turbine that Provides an Attractive Return-

on-Investment, Turbo Expo 2005, Reno, NV, January 2005

Operation of a Direct-Fired Combustion Turbine System on Pulverized Wood,

On-Site Power Generation for the Future, Biologue, National Bio-Energy

Industries Association

Electrical Sneak Circuit Analysis, First Systems Conference on Circuits

Systems and Computers, Houston, TX

The PGI Bio-waste Converter - Thermal/Electric Energy Systems That Operate

on Solid Wood Waste.

Waste Cooking Oil for Process Heat & Power - EUEC Conference January 30 -

February 1, 2012

The PGI System - On-Site Power Generation, Biofuels Conference, Espoo,

Finland

Bio-energy Update - Small Scale Gasification Systems, August 2000, Vol.2

No. 8

Structural Composition Board and the Maine Economy

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