Bill Lonergan

About Bill Lonergan

Ph.D. Chemical Engineer with interests in catalyst formulation, manufacturing, testing, and characterization, as well process development.Specialties: Catalyst formulation and screening- experience formulating and screening novel catalytic materials for both novel and existing processes. Screening activities have included use of both high throughput reactors for rapid screening of formulations and also pilot plant evaluation of catalysts to confirm yields and performance at commercial conditions.Catalyst manufacturing - experience manufacturing catalysts at several commercial facilities utilizing both continuous and batch processing methods; successfully scaled multiple lab formulations to commercial scaleAdvanced catalyst characterization - Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, kinetic measurements, gas chromatography (GC), chemisorption, atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), Lab scale reactor design and operation - batch and flow reactors, familiar with ultra-high vacuum (UHV) equipment and techniques

Experience

1. Process Development Engineer

   ExxonMobil

   May 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Virginia

  BS, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

  2002 — 2006

• University of Delaware

  PhD, Chemical Engineering

  2006 — 2011

Skills

• Catalyst Formulation
• Catalysis
• Characterization
• Spectroscopy
• Reaction Engineering
• Gas Chromatography
• Materials Science
• Ir
• Metal Catalysts
• Tem
• Chemical Engineering
• Zeolites
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Surface Chemistry