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Max
Gorensek
Adjunct
Professor
Dr.
Gorensek is
a chemical
engineer
with 24
years of
professional
experience,
most
recently
with the
Savannah
River
National
Laboratory (SRNL),
where he is
actively
involved in
several
thermochemical
hydrogen
production
process
development
projects.
His current
focus is on
flowsheet
development,
simulation,
and
optimization
of the
Hybrid
Sulfur (HyS)
process for
a DOE Office
of Nuclear
Energy,
Science, &
Technology
(DOE-NE)-sponsored
effort under
the Nuclear
Hydrogen
Initiative (NHI).
He is also
collaborating
with Prof.
John Weidner
(Chemical
Engineering
Department)
on
developing
flowsheets
and
providing
economic
analyses of
HyS and
other hybrid
thermochemical
cycles under
DOE Office
of Energy
Efficiency
and
Renewable
Energy
sponsorship.
Dr. Gorensek
is part of a
team led by
Dr. Bill
Summers that
is
performing a
conceptual
design and
economic
analysis of
a
hypothetical
nuclear
heat-driven
hydrogen
production
plant for a
single
industrial
consumer
using the
Sulfur-Iodine
(SI) cycle
under DOE-NE’s
Nuclear
Energy
Research
Initiative (NERI).
Another NERI
project has
Dr. Gorensek
collaborating
with Prof.
Mark Thies
(Clemson)
and Prof.
John
O’Connell
(University
of Virginia)
to do
process
analysis and
design of
the
Sulfur-Iodine
cycle using
comprehensive
phase
equilibrium
measurements
and modeling
of
properties
and
processes.
Other
highlights
of Dr.
Gorensek’s
work at SRNL
include his
contributions
to the
development
of a dynamic
model of the
High Level
Waste
evaporators,
including a
physical
properties
model that
predicts the
onset of
problematic
zeolite
precipitation.
Since
joining SRNL,
he has
continued
his
involvement
with Hanford
WTP
flowsheet
model
projects,
providing
critical
support
needed to
meet
deadlines
for
flowsheet
deliverables
on several
occasions.
Recently, he
began
mentoring
graduate
student
interns at
SRNL. His
current
intern is
working on a
HyS energy
efficiency
optimization
project that
will provide
the basis
for his
master’s
thesis.
Education
-
Ph.D.,
Chemical
Engineering,
Princeton
University,
1981
-
M.A.,
Chemical
Engineering,
Princeton
University,
1978
-
M.S.,
Chemical
Engineering,
Case
Western
Reserve
University,
1977
-
B.S.,
Chemical
Engineering,
Case
Western
Reserve
University,
1977
Selected Publications
-
Gorensek,
MB, WA
Summers,
MR
Buckner,
and ZH
Qureshi,
"Conceptual
Design
for a
Hybrid
Sulfur
Thermochemical
Hydrogen
Production
Process,"
ANS
Transactions,
92,
101
(2005)
-
Summers,
WA, MR
Buckner,
MB
Gorensek,
and ET
Danko,
"Plant
Definition
and
Economic
Analysis
for
Centralized
Nuclear
Hydrogen
Production,"
ANS
Transactions,
92,
109
(2005)
-
Gorensek,
MB, WA
Summers
and MR
Buckner,
"Model-Based
Evaluation
of
Thermochemical
Nuclear
Hydrogen
Processes,"
ANS
Transactions,
91,
107
(2004)
-
Cowfer,
JA and
MB
Gorensek,
"Vinyl
Chloride,"
Kirk-Othmer
Encyclopedia
of
Chemical
Technology,
Fourth
Ed.,
Vol. 24,
New
York:
John
Wiley &
Sons,
Inc.,
pp.
851-882
(1997)
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