Research and develop new power burners for oil and gas applications. This includes using such tools as Ansys Fluent, Chemkin, and other in house proprietary codes that I developed. In addition, I am the chief engineer for residential burners.

Burner Design and Development: Developed 10 novel burner designs to lower NOX emissions. Created a burner that could reach sub 30 ppm NOX without flue gas recirculation (FGR) and sub 15 ppm with FGR.The burner produced lower emissions, required less time and materials to fabricate and is flexibleenough to fit a variety of boiler and process burner applications. Developed a windbox baffling system to get uniform air flow to the combustion zone which resulted in a 15% drop in NO. Responsible fordeveloping new burner concepts, developing CFD models, then performing physical test on full scaletesting furnace. Commercialized new burner technologies to the different burner lines. Supported salesin providing technical expertise in fitting the correct burner for the needed application. Worked on sitewith customers to resolve technical issues in the commissioning of the burner.CFD: Performed air flow, multiphase flow and combustion CFD modeling using Ansys Fluent. Wrote user defined functions (UDF) to incorporate testing data into the model. Validated both air flow andcombustion simulations with scaled and full scale tests. Windbox baffles and burner fuel injector tipswere first modeled with CFD then tested experimentally to validate the model predictions. Used CFDmodels in product development to reduce the number of physical tests needed to be performed.Developed a Cantera idealized reactor network code designed to incorporate data from the CFDsimulations and produce NOX predictions using the full GRI reaction mechanism. Was able to accurately scale up a burner and predict the NOX emissions using this in house code with CFD results.

Principal investigator in designing and fabricating a reactor to test the functionality of oxygen transport membranes (OTM) in a gasification environment. Accomplishments:1. Designed and fabricated complex furnace for testing OTM tubes.2. GPA of 3.76 in graduate course work.3. Developed a novel approach to gasify coal without fludizing or entraining the coal. 4. Hired, trained and managed 2 undergraduate research assistants5. Awarded John Zink Scholarship6. Attended John Zink Burner School7. Awarded Kingston Scholarship

Worked jointly with Executive Committee Chair from BYU to organize and oversee the student portion of the 2007 AIChE National Conference in Salt Lake City. This conference included a Saturday night bash, ChemE car competition, student workshops, local tours, and gifts for the students. All of these activities were a success and fit within their allocated budget. Individual responsibilities included organizing and correlating the activities of the four University of Utah committees, organizing and overseeing 30+ volunteers, and acting as a liaison between University of Utah and national AIChE representatives.

Contributed in the development of a carbon capture unit (C2U). Developed and carried out experiments using an innovative magnetic particle tracking systems to measure solids flux in the C2U.Developed Process States diagram and descriptions for the C2U. This outlines the experimental goals and potential hazards associated with this project. Also contributed in performing calculations for adding a heat exchanger to this unit. Presented a novel approach for integrating a heat pipe to the C2U. Presented the findings of my calculations in an internal merit review.

Projects:Future Gen: contributed in incorpirating proprietary model code from REI into a proposed IGCC Aspen flow sheet. Models included an Air Separation Unit and Acid Gas Removal System. Aided in the testing and implementing of models developed in C++ to interface with the Apecs framework developed by Fluent to allow models developed in C++ to work within an Aspen flowsheet. Blast Studio: Ran simulations with the CFD code MPMICE to simulate the effect a land mine would have on a vehicle. Investigated the use of Design of Experiments to reduce the amount of runs required of MPMICE. Investigated Single Value Decomposition to reduce the order of the results from MPMICE to create a data set that could be used to extrapolate results without having to run the CFD code.

Worked in fabricating and customizing jewelry. Specialized in rhodium plating of white gold. Developed a system by which waste rhodium solution could be recycled and reused. Saved company hundreds of dollars in recycling rhodium solution.Most helpful professional skill learned from this job was how to work fast and accurately.