Richard Bauman

Prior to joining Accelergy， Mr. Bauman joined ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company in 1965， and have since then directed the development of leading technologies in refining， coal liquefaction， shale retorting， and natural gas conversion. Among the processes are Single Stage Hydrocracking， Gofining， Residfining， Exxon Donor Solvent Coal Liquefaction， Microcat Coal Liquefaction， Exxon’s Shale Retorting Process， and AGC-21 （Exxon’s Advanced Gas Conversion technology）. Activities have covered the range of breakthrough research to operation of large Process Demonstration Units. The most recent program was the development of Exxon’s AGC-21 technology. Mr. Bauman supervised the $ 500+ million dollar program which resulted in over 400 patents （he is author on over 10 of these patents）. Mr. Bauman holds a MS from Drexel Institute of Technology and a MS from New York University in Chemical Engineering， and has continued to evaluate advanced technologies after retiring from Exxon in year 2000.