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MOHAMMED SALMAN KHAN Biswadip Das Ekaterina M. Nestorovich Joel Caton Anil Roy Dubey Saheem Ahmad Sabrina Bhagwan Carole Ayoub Moubareck Dr.(Ms.) Neeloo Singh Sarah J. Ewing Ruchi Seth Kelly A. Grant Tobias Baskin Magdalena Bezanilla Jeffrey Blanchard Steven D. Brewer Samuel H.P. Chan Catherine Day Pamela L. Tuma Mark Banfield View MoreRichard Elander
ENGINEER VI-MULTI DISCIPLINE
Biochemical Conversion
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
United States of America
Rick Elander has more than 25 years of R&D and project management experience, almost exclusively in the areas of biomass conversion to biofuels using various enzymatic and thermochemical hydrolysis routes. He has direct experience in designing, implementing, and utilizing biomass pretreatment, biomass slurry solid-liquid separation, and enzymatic hydrolysis unit operations at both the bench-scale and pilot scale. Elander has extensive personnel and project management experience, including managing complex R&D tasks involving numerous academic and industrial subcontractors, and successfully managing high-visibility and high-impact multi-partner industrial collaborations with domestic and international partners.
Biomass deconstruction, pretreatment and saccharification;Process integration and scale-up;Process separations and product recovery;Industrial collaborations and project management