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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

- Proven leader who’s designed, commissioned, and started up new pilot plants in the energy industry for 30 years

- Excellent domain knowledge of energy industry including petroleum refining, monomer production, and alternative energies

- Significant R&D experience with world-class knowledge of fluidization and gas-liquid processes

- Proven track record of trouble-shooting existing commercially processes to maximize profits by applying novel mathematical models

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE 1995-2025

- Fluidized bed reactor technology, commercial operation and design of new technology Companies Included: Dow Corning, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Great Point Energy, PSRI, KIOR, UOP, Solutia, Snamprogetti

- Waste water treatment, solvent sublation, reactive distillation, distillation Companies Included: Dow Corning, Borden Chemical, Vicksburg Chemical Company, Imes Engineering, Arco

- Expert Witness

Smith, Jones, and Fawer Attorneys at Law

EXPERTISE

- Mathematical modeling, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics

- Proficient at Matlab, Excel, Power Point, and Word

- Strong Analytical Skills, Chromatography including HPLC, UV-VIS, and Fluorescence Spectroscopy INDUSTRIAL POSTS

1/05 - Owner of Smith Engineering Services, Texas City, Texas Consulting engineer for nearly 20 companies. Current: Viroment Co., performing lab apparati construction and operation for new alternative fuels.

8/98 to 1/05 Sr. Research Engineer, ExxonMobil Chemical, Baytown, Texas

-Basic Equipment Owner of a $25M dollar pilot circulating fluidized bed reactor for methanol to olefins (MTO)

-Developed new hydrodynamic/kinetic models for the scale up of circulating fluidized bed reactors

-Designed and operated cold flow pilot CFB reactors of various diameters

-Modeled and debottlenecked commercial FCC standpipe systems

-4 Global Technical Achievement Awards, 1999, 2000, 2000, and 2001 5/01 to 8/01 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Instructor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 5/96 to 7/98 Research Associate, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

-Manager of graduate research laboratory in the Hazardous Substance Research Center

-Undergraduate instructor (Chemical Engineering Department) Smith Engineering Services

Jeffrey S. Smith, Ph.D.

Engineering Consultant

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9/96 to 1/97 Associate Engineering Specialist, Dow Corning, Midland, Michigan

-Developed conceptual process designs for solvent recovery and the production of methyl chloride and polydimethylsiloxane

1/93 to 5/96 Graduate Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

-Dissertation: Pilot-Scale Solvent Sublation for the Removal of Hydrophobic Compounds from Waste Waters

-Amoco Fellowship, 1993

6/90 to 12/92 Process and Research Engineer, Dow Corning, Carrollton, Kentucky

-Designed a pilot process to produce and recover methyl chloride from natural gas

-Co-developed and started up a briquetting process which neutralized a pyrophoric by-product generated from dimethyldichlorosilane monomer reactors

-Improved the performance of commercial chlorosilane monomer reactors through optimization of catalyst addition schedules

EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1996 Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1990 REFERENCES Dr. K.T. Valsaraj, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 225-***-**** Dr. Rathna Davuluri, ExxonMobil, Spring, Texas, 703-***-**** Dr. Reddy Karri, Particulate Solids Research Inc, Chicago, Illinois, 630-***-**** PUBLICATIONS

“Hydrodynamic Scale-Up of Circulating Fluidized Beds” T.M. Knowlton, S.B. Reddy Karri, J.S. Smith in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidization X. Bi F. Berruti and T. Pugsley eds. ECI 2007, pp 1-12.

“Air-water partitioning constants for volatile methyl siloxanes” Kochetkov, A.; Smith, J.S.; Ravikrishna, R; Valsaraj, K.T.; Thibodeaux, L.J., Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20(10) 200*-****-****.

“Solvent sublation for waste minimization in a process water stream—pilot-scale study” Bryson, B.; Valsaraj, K.T., J. Hazardous Materials B82 2001 65-75. [acknowledgement]

“Reusable adsorbents for dilute solution separation. 3. Sorption dynamics of phenanthrene on surfactant-modified alumina” Jain, P.M.; Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T. Sep. Purif. Tech. (17) 1999 21-30

“The promise of solvent sublation” Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T. Chem. Eng. Prog.(5) 1998 69-77.

“Reusable adsorbents for dilute solution separation. 2. Model development and residence time distribution characterization for a laboratory adsorption column” Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T. Sep. Purif. Tech. (13-199*-***-***.

“Reusable adsorbents for dilute solution separation. 1. Adsorption of phenanthrene on surfactant-modified alumina” Valsaraj, K.T.; Jain, P.M.; Kommalapati, R.R.; Smith, J.S.; Sep. Purif. Tech. (13-199*-***-***.

“Sediment-to-air mass transfer of semi-volatile contaminants due to sediment resuspension in water” Valsaraj, K.T.; Ravikrishna, R.; Orlins, J.J.; Smith, J.S.; Gulliver, J.S.; Reible, D.D.; Thibodeaux, L.J., Advances in Env. Res. 1(2) 199*-***-***.

“Bubble column reactors for wastewater treatment Part III. Pilot-scale solvent sublation of pyrene and pentachlorophenol from simulated wastewater” Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 36(3) 199*-***-***.

“Bubble column reactors for wastewater treatment Part II. The effect of sparger design on sublation column hydrodynamics in the homogeneous flow regime” Smith, J.S.; Burns, L.F.; Valsaraj, K.T.; Thibodeaux, L.J., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35(5) 199*-****-****. 9207 Stingray Court **********@*****.***

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“Bubble column reactors for wastewater treatment Part I.Theory and modeling of continuous countercurrent solvent sublation” Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T.; Thibodeaux, L.J. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 35(5) 199*-****-****.

“An innovative air-water exchange process for the treatment of waste waters” Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T.; Thibodeaux, L.J., Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. On Air-Water Gas Transfer, July 24-27, 1995, Heidelberg, Germany.

“Methyl chloride via oxychlorination of methane [Part II]” Naasz, B.M.; Smith, J.S.; Toupadakis, A.I.; Jarvis, R.F.; Crum, B.R. ACS Fuels Division Aug. 21-26, 1994, Washington DC (DOE DE-AC22-91PC91030 and GRI 509*-***-****)

“The micropore condensation model of the solids concentration effect on the partition coefficient of colloidal suspensions” Swift, B.L; Smith, J.S.; Valsaraj, K.T.; Thibodeaux, L.J. Proc. ACS National Meeting, Environmental Division, Mar 13-18, 1994, San Diego, California.

“Methyl chloride via oxychlorination of methane [Part I]” Naasz, B.M.; Smith, J.S.; Toupadakis, A.I.; Crum, B.R. Liquefaction Contractor’s Review Conference Sep. 22-24, 1992, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (DOE DE-AC22-91PC91030 and GRI 509*-***-****)

“Mathematical analysis of transport properties of polymer films for food packaging. VII. Moisture transport through a polymer film with subsequent adsorption on and diffusion through food” Smith, J.S.; Peppas, N.A. J. App. Polymer Sci. 1991, 43, 1219-1225. PATENTS

US 7329309 B2 “Gas-Solids Separation Device and Method” J.S. Smith, J.H. Beech, N.P. Coute’, J.F. Goellner, K.R. Clem, 2008. US 6846405 B2 “Circulating Fluid Bed Reactor System” J.R. Lattner, J.S. Smith, R.P. Davuluri 2005. US6740790 B2 “Making an Olefin Product from an Oxygenate” K.H. Kuechler, M.J.G. Janssen, S.N. Vaughn, S.C. Fung, N.P. Coute’, J.S. Smith J.R. Lattner, J.L. White, T. Xu, W.L. Kuechler, M.M. Mertens, C.W.M. Van Oorschot 2004. WO 03/078047 A1, “Controlling solids flow in a gas-solid reactor” Smith, J.S.; Lattner, J.R.; Clem, K.R.; Loezos, P.N.; Coute’, N.P.; Patel, R.D., 2003

US 6,531,639 B1, “Catalytic production of olefins at high methanol partial pressures” Fung, SC.; Kuechler, K.H.; Smith, J.S.; Coute’, N.P.; Vaughn, S.N.; Cao, C., 2003

US 6,437,208 B1, “Making an olefin product from an oxygenate” Kuechler, K.H.; Janssen, J.G.; Vaughn, S.N.; Fung, S.C.; Coute’, N.P.; Smith, J.S.; Lattner, J.R.; White, J.L.; Xu, T.; Kuechler Sr., W.L.; Mertens, M.M; Oorschot, C.W.M., 2002 EP Patent 607388, JP Patent 8176030, “Recovery of chlorocarbon esp. methyl chloride from gaseous mixture esp. noncondensible gas esp. from oxychlorination process” Crum, B.R.; Knutson, C.G.; Naasz, B.M.; Smith, J.S., 1996.

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