Carbon Sciences, Inc., a developer of technology to transform greenhouse gases into gasoline and other portable fuels, has announced the appointment of a scientific adviser, Dr. Howard Fong, to its staff. Fong worked at Shell Development Company (Shell Oil Company) at the Westhollow Technology Center in Houston, Texas in 1975, and rose to the rank of Managing Engineer, the highest technical rank of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, until retiring this April.
This company is developing a CO2 based gas-to-liquids technology to transform greenhouse gases into liquid portable fuels, such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. It intends to use scalable clean-tech processes to produce liquid fuels from natural or human-made greenhouse gas emissions, targeting sources such as natural gas fields, refinery flare gas, landfill gas, municipal waste, algae and other biomass. Company literature states “there is an abundant supply of inexpensive feedstock available to produce large and sustainable quantities of liquid fuel to replace petroleum for global consumption, thereby eliminating our dependence on petroleum.”
Carbon Sciences is publicly traded as an OTC company using the symbol CABN. It presently has a market capitalization of $15.86 million and shows no current revenue.
Fong specializes in new technology assessment, development and commercialization, functioning at the interface between technology and business. He is the holder of over 30 patents and several of the major developments he helped initiate at Shell have been commercialized. He has extensive experience working with start-up companies, providing critical techno-economic evaluations and charting the path for successful commercialization.
“Dr. Fong’s extensive experience and track record in the petrochemical industry at the highest levels will be invaluable to Carbon Sciences as we continue to develop our revolutionary CO2 based Gas-to-Liquids technology,” said Byron Elton, Carbon Sciences CEO. “With Dr. Fong advising Dr. Aslam, our Chief Technology Officer and inventor of the process, we have the world-class, best of breed talent we need to move forward.”
Dr. Fong received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1971, and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.
