Engineer, Chemical Engineering
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Jerry J. Kaczur
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North Miami Beach, FL 33160
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SUMMARY:
Chemical engineer with extensive process development and scale-up experience in both industrial chemical and electrochemical processes on pilot and plant scales. Experienced in sodium chlorate, mercury-cell and membrane chlor alkali processes, membrane based electrochemical processes, fuel cells, electrochemical and chemical bromine technology, and oxidizer and reducing chemicals such as sodium chlorite, chlorine dioxide, and sodium hydrosulfite. Also experienced in electrochemical CO2 reduction technology to CO and formic acid in addition to alkaline water electrolysis and membrane casting development.
Strong project management experience in developing, directing, and implementing R&D, pilot plant, and commercial plant engineering programs, successfully meeting company goals and visions.
Served roles as a Safety and E&HS Manager, conducting and training company personnel in HAZOPS and PHA analysis, and utilizing Six Sigma in implementing process improvements.
Technical chemical and equipment sales, customer service, and marketing experience, working with various customers in the chemical, water/wastewater treatment, pulp and paper, and food industries.
Experienced in project management, supervising the installation and start-up of multiple $1 -
$20M plants at customer locations, with plant and technical support after the sale.
Proven technical innovator in the development and commercialization of new technologies in the chemical and electrochemical fields.
Experienced in Intellectual Property, drafting patents in addition to IP strategy and management. EXPERIENCE:
8/2016 – Present Dioxide Materials
3998 FAU Blvd, Suite #300
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Position: Senior Engineer
Development, evaluation, and scale-up of electrochemical and chemical technologies for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and fuels.
Developing technologies for CO2 reduction to CO and formic acid, and alkaline water electrolysis in producing hydrogen
Working on DOE and ARPA-E funded projects on pilot plant demonstrations of these technologies. PI on Army Formate Project.
5/2015 – 8/2016 Engineering Consultant – For Liquid Light and Dioxide Materials 3785 NE 167th Street
North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Position: Engineering Fellow/Consultant
Consultant to both Liquid Light and Dioxide Materials in the development, evaluation, and scale-up of electrochemical and chemical technologies for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and fuels.
Traveling between FL and NJ in directing specific projects and conducting laboratory and pilot work in 2016. Work at Dioxide Materials (Boca Raton, FL) on CO2 reduction to CO and formic acid.
Completed engineering P&ID’s and technical information required for LL Bio-ethylene glycol process pilot plant at the end of 2015.
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1/2012 – 5/2015 Liquid Light, Inc.
11 Deer Park Drive, Suite 121
Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852
Positions: Director of Engineering, Engineering Fellow A Venture Capital funded company. Directing the engineering development team on the commercial scale-up of novel electrochemical and chemical technologies and processes for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and fuels.
Directed the engineering team in successfully developing several novel technology process routes for the conversion of CO2 to ethylene glycol. The technology development was used to obtain a JDA with Coca Cola for their bio-based “Plant” bottle program, a potential $20B sales opportunity for supplying material/technology. Developed the pilot engineering schedule for 2016
- 2017.
Developed commercially viable technologies for production of formates and oxalates from CO2.
Served multiple roles as a safety manager, managing HSSE, in addition to IP support in the filing and maintenance of LL’s patent filings.
5/2011 – 1/2012 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, Specialty Materials 905 E. Randolph Road
Hopewell, VA 23860
Position: Senior Engineer
Senior engineer working on process improvement and development in Honeywell’s caprolactam and ammonium sulfate processes. Utilizing Honeywell six sigma process to reduce production costs, improve process design with new equipment and analytical techniques, as well as improvement of materials used in the processes.
Tested and identified a new suitable replacement elastomers as well as supplier for use in the caprolactam process filtration technology. They had lost their supplier and elastomers obtained from the new suppliers were failing. The major impact is that the entire plant billion lbs of caprolactam is processed through this equipment.
Six sigma greenbelt project on developing an alternate ammonium sulfate coating, potentially saving $20M in chemicals and resolving ammonium sulfate storage humidity issues.
Certification as a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Leader. 3/2004 – 5/2011 ELECTROLYTIC TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 19597 NE 10th Ave, North Miami Beach, FL 33179
Position: Director of Engineering/Technology
Directed commercial development and deployment of Electrolytic’s on-site electrochemical membrane cell based chlorine, caustic, and sodium hypochlorite systems as well as providing technical support for customer process applications, marketing, and managing intellectual property.
Designed and engineered an expanded ETC electrochemical product line into modular-based systems ranging from 500 lb/day to 40,000 lb/day equivalent chlorine over a period of 3 years.
Engineered smaller chlorine generation systems ranging from 40 – 200 lbs/day or more for use in smaller applications for cooling towers, wastewater, and the municipal water markets.
Managed successful installation and start-up of multiple plants at customer sites in the US and foreign countries. Largest plant was a $10M bleach facility in PA, completed in 9 months.
Directed DOE contract work at Electrolytic for bromine based fuel cell technology and chemistry with partner company - SRT.
Served other roles at ETC, in system and equipment sales, doing sales calls as well as service and support for ETC’s water and wastewater and chemical customers. 1/2000- 3/2004 PURELINE TREATMENT SYSTEMS, LLC
25612 Commercentre Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92630
Position: Director, R&D
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Directed commercial development and placement of PureLine’s electrochemical-based chlorine dioxide and chlorine systems into a service based customer base, as well as providing customer technical support for process applications, intellectual property and customer sales.
Designed and engineered PureLine’s chlorine dioxide products into to three types of generation systems ranging from 1 lb to 1,000 lbs/day for use in cooling towers, wastewater, and municipal water treatment accounts.
Conducted customer sales calls and assisted the sales team in designing systems to meet customer needs and requirements.
Supervised teams that installed the systems at customer sites. 7/1977- 1/2000 OLIN CORPORATION, Chlor-Alkali Products Division, Charleston Technology Center, Charleston, TN 37310 Last Position: Senior Development Engineer
Assumed positions of increasing responsibility in Olin’s regional Process Technology group as a Chemical Process Development Engineer, developing new chemical and electrochemical processes and providing technical/engineering and manufacturing support for various Olin Corporation chemical plant locations. Supervising 2 to 8 technicians/engineers on various projects having 1 - 4 year program requirements.
Electrochemical and Chemical Processes:
Sodium Chlorate: Coordinated Olin technology assets in the successful start-up and continuing in-plant manufacturing assistance for two Olin multi-million dollar sodium chlorate plants at Niagara Falls ($10M) and McIntosh, Alabama ($20M). This included conducting process safety hazard reviews, evaluating competitive technology, initiating process cost improvements, and developing new technologies such as chromium removal from the product solutions.
Sodium Hydrosulfite: Directed and implemented cost reduction and technology improvement programs for Olin's electrochemical hydrosulfite business. Achieved a 50% reduction in the capital costs for Olin's electrochemical process electrolyzer by developing suppliers and designs for lower cost electrodes and electrochemical cell bodies, amounting to a $20 - $40M capital savings in Olin's hydrosulfite strategic growth plans. Initiated new development programs for alternative lower cost hydrosulfite process routes.
Electrochemical Chlorine Dioxide: Developed process for the direct electrochemical conversion of sodium chlorite to aqueous chlorine dioxide. Developed and marketed new high surface area electrodes (TySAR®) for this and other applications Chemical Processes
SO2 Process: Participated in a 2 year team effort to debottleneck Olin's $12M SO2 facility. Developed the solution for providing low sulfur content SO2 product, allowing the plant to increase production from 90 TPD to 120 TPD for an additional $20M/yr sales.
Ferrates: Developed patented process for producing high purity ferrate (iron VI compounds) oxidizers. The technology was licensed in 1995 for radioactive waste water treatment. Future development work in using ferrates in water treatment are being developed.
Pulp and Paper: Worked with Bowater Southern on pulp bleaching – Kraft/sodium hydrosulfite as well as chlorine dioxide and HOCl bleaching agents in a two year project. 1976 - 1977 FMC CORPORATION, Agrichemical Division, Middleport, NY Last Position: Process Engineer
Responsible for process yield improvement in proprietary FMC fungicide processes
(dithiocarbamates). Developed analytical methods for resolving stability problems and changing process parameters, amounting to a 2% increase in product yield, valued at about $0.5M/yr.
Assisted project teams in the start-up and operation of two critical $20M waste water environmental projects to comply with EPA decrees. One was a waste water evaporator system for salt removal from process effluents. The other project was a surface waste water facility for Page 4 of 4
pesticide/fungicide removal. Both projects were successfully completed and complied with environmental permits.
EDUCATION:
1974 - 1976 State University of New York At Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Position: MS Chemical Engineering Program, graduate teaching assistant. MS coursework completed, thesis was not completed because of time. 1970 - 1974 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
BS in Engineering, Interdisciplinary Engineering
Majoring in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering PUBLICATIONS/OTHER:
PATENTS: 62 issued patents, 2 pending patent applications. R&D Magazine - 1994 R&D100 Award Recipient - NOxSorb® Technology. R&D Magazine - 1995 R&D100 Award Recipient - TySAR® Electrodes. PUBLICATIONS: 130, Details in Google Scholar and ResearchGate https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UVFGc-0AAAAJ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerry_Kaczur
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