Bruce King Joins the PureVision Team as Director of Engineering
September 7, 2009PureVision Technology, Inc., a technology enabler for the nascent cellulosic biorefinery industry, welcomed Bruce King to its technical team as the Director of Engineering. "Bruce brings with him a wealth of engineering and plant start‐up experience" says Chim Chin, Ph.D., PureVision's Director of Process Development. "His expertise is invaluable as PureVision accelerates the commercialization of the PureVision Biomass Fractionation Process to produce fermentable cellulosic sugar from biomass."
Mr. King states that he is "extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to work on development of resources that are so important to our nation and world with a state‐of‐the‐art company such as PureVision Technology." After graduating from Auburn University with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Mr. King worked and consulted for many major chemicals and petrochemicals companies in the Gulf Coast Area. He has managed the design, construction and start‐up of projects ranging from methanol, ammonia, urea, bioremediation, synthetic gas to gas‐to‐ liquid plants. Bruce is a registered professional engineer (TX), a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a recipient of the Charles E. Coates Award (2004) and a US Navy Captain (retired). Bruce recently graduated (2008) from Louisiana State University with a M.Sc. in Environmental Science –Toxicology and a thesis entitled "Ethanol production using continuous multi‐staged immobilized microbe bioreactors."
PureVision Technology, Inc. is a privately held Colorado company focused on fractionating non‐edible plant materials, such as corn stalks, sugarcane residue and waste wood, into separate fermentable sugars and lignin streams. The sugars and lignin are then available for conversion into higher value biofuels, including bio‐ ethanol and biobutanol, biochemicals and yeast protein. PureVision recently completed shakedown of its ½ ton/day pre‐pilot biomass fractionation unit and is working on process optimization and scaling up to a 20 ton/day pilot in 2010‐2011.