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Dr. Barry Liss, PhD, PE

 

Company:                      Creative Environmental Systems, LLC, USA

 

Position:                         Managing Member

 

Nationality:                                    American

 

PhD ChE and a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida with over 38 years professional experience in the technical, financial and management aspects of energy and environmental engineering, including process engineering, regulatory compliance, marketing and technical support of air, water & wastewater, odor management, soil and ground water remediation, bio-mass & municipal waste to energy and hazardous waste processing systems; also synthetic fuel technology, coal conversion systems, fluidization engineering and fluid particle systems and alternative energy systems.

 

CAPABILITIES:

  • Business Plan Preparation

  • Coal Utilization

  • Feasibility Studies, Alternative Designs & Reviews

  • Field Testing & Demonstrations

  • Fluidization Engineering & Fluid Particle Systems

  • Food Waste, Yard Waste, MSW, & Bio-Solids Composting

  • Groundwater & Soil Remediation

  • New Source Prevention Standards (NSPS)

  • New Source Reviews (NSR)

  • Maximum Available Control Technologies (MACT)

  • National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)

  • Odor Manageent  Systems Design

  • Odor Sampling, Testing & Characterization

  • Permitting & Regulatory Compliance 

  • Pilot Testing & Scale-Up

  • Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Studies

  • Process Engineering

  • Project Management

  • Proposal & Other Technical Document Preparation

  • Remedial Alternative Analyses & Action Implementation

  • Site Assessments - Energy Audits

  • Technical-Economic Evaluations Of Emerging Technologies

  • Technical Marketing & Sales

  • Title V - Clean Air Act Evaluations

  • Waste-To-Energy Facility Design, Planning, Permitting

  • Wastewater Reuse Standards & Systems Design

  • Wastewater Treatment Systems Specification & Design

 

CURRENT WORK EXPERIENCE / SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS

 

2001-Current     Innviron Corporation/EnviroPower Management, Inc. – Senior Process Engineering Consultant – Proposal and project management on solid waste management systems design, permitting and planning projects including waste-to-energy, composting, transfer stations, water treatment, wastewater treatment and air emissions control projects, including international tender response preparation.  Overall process engineering integration for all CCE waste to energy, water and wastewater treatment plant projects.

 

2005-Current     Reardon Environmental, Inc. – Technical Marketing Consultant – Provides chemical engineering expertise to quantify reagent usages for company’s ISCO based remediation projects. Also provides marketing netwroking and regulatory support functions.

 

2006-Current     Classi Environmental, LLC – New Business Development Consultant –  Marketing, proposal and project management responsibilities on all areas of energy and environmental engineering consulting including project planning, permitting and management for solid waste management, waste-to-energy, water treatment, wastewater treatment and air emissions control systems and services.

 

2011-Current     Southern Waste Systems – Odor Management Consultant –  Prepared permit application and modifications for SUN RECYCLING 12 - COLLEGE AVENUE MRF Odor Management Plan.

 

PRIOR EXPERIENCE / SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS

 

EMO Energy Solutions, LLC -  Provided facility energy & water audits, modeling, energy efficiency building retrofit specifications/designs, & energy awareness programs. Created a cost saving combined energy efficiency, effluent discharge and odor management improvement program for wastewater treatment plants.

 

Clean Air Systems, Inc. - Technical Director- Prepared Business Plan and provided technical support for development & marketing of company’s air pollution control systems. Developed functional relationships with regulators and political leaders.

 

Noyes & Associates, Inc. Consulting on wastewater projects and marketing its patented water and wastewater treatment technologies. Also prepared business plan and supported capital funding efforts. Helped develop the program and team to enable small communities to take over water utilities from counties or other larger entities.

 

Terr-Aqua Enviro Systems, Inc.  Consultant & Independent Representative – Consulting on air emissions projects and marketing its proprietary UV-Oxidation based air pollution control technology. Also prepared business plan and supported capital funding efforts for industrial air emissions and homeland security applications.

 

YURCO Hope Team Management Company, LLC – Executive Director - Organized team of over 30 companies, including a majority of the largest disaster recovery companies and prepared business plan to systematically assess, remediate and rebuild homes in the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devasted areas.

 

ZYME-TECH, INC. - Invited to join in the formation of this new corporation, as Executive Vice President, which expanded the scope of Odor Control International, Inc.  Successfully implemented the mal-odor abatement protocols in all of the waste management applications listed below.  Corporate responsibility for all technical aspects of the company.

 

Odor Control International, Inc. - Developed formulations and application techniques for bioenzymatic treatment of mal-odors at landfills, waste water treatment plants, composting and other waste management facilities.  Prepared business plan for company expansion.

 

NYSFC- Consultant for the Office of Energy-Related Inventions at the U. S. D.O.C.

 

DOE/METC-University of Massachusetts - Review of the thermodynamic, physical – chemical and detailed design issues for fluid bed coal gasifiers.

 

Systems, Science and Software - Prepared state of art survey on high temperature fluidization and ash agglomeration which resulted in the identification of a novel approach to the determination of incipient fluidization of sinterable solids.  Assisted in population balance model preparation and data analysis related to coal gasifiers.

 

Hydrocarbon Research, Inc. - U. S. patent for HRI for novel multi-stage fluidized bed gasifier - heavy oil upgrading process. 

 

Clean Fuels Institute/CUNY - Authored five (5) technical articles on coal conversion. Project manager for fast fluid bed gasifier pilot plant design and operation.

 

Union Carbide Corporation - Developed and demonstrated patented successful techniques for injection of agglomerating coals into fluid bed hydrocarbonizer.

 

Chemical Construction Corporation - Performed engineering planning and analysis for Clean Boiler Fuel Demonstration Plant Program.   Identified and planned commercial plant subsystem alternative/feasibility studies.  Developed reactor design manual.

 

EDUCATION:

                  B.Ch.E.         The City College of New York.                

                  M.Ch.E.        The City College of New York.                

                  Ph.D.             The City University of New York           

                  Thesis:         "The Dynamic Behavior of Particulate Systems Involving Simultaneous Nucleation and Growth."

 

TEACHING:

                  Process Instrumentation and Control Laboratory.

                  Non-Metallic Behavior Laboratory (polymer).

                  Metallic Behavior Laboratory (metallurgy).

                  Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York.

 

AWARDS:

                  International Brotherhood of Teamsters Scholarship 

                  Dr. J. J. Klein Fellowship 

                  NASA Pre-Doctoral Traineeship 

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

                  American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

                  American Chemical Society.

                  Water Environment Federation.

 

PATENTS/PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS –

  • 3 Patents awarded and 3 patents pending

  • Over 20 technical papers and conference presentations

 

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