With the objective of delivering innovative solutions to your specific challenges, The Merrick Consultancy provides customized, sustainable strategies and solutions to enhance your company value, leverage your business strengths, and improve your company’s financial performance. The Consultancy serves the renewables, refining, and utilities industries.

By employing best practices, leveraging the experience of talented individuals, and supporting you with an exceptional blend of technical, business, and operating expertise, The Consultancy is ready to assist you in:

• in advancing specific initiatives
• developing profit-oriented results
• moving your company forward toward your business goals

The Consultancy serves its clients, beginning to end, with various services that take you from assessing the feasibility of opportunities and developing the appropriate project to leverage a specific technology to developing cost effective, profit producing systems, maximizing operational effectiveness, and increasing financial performance and profitability.

The Consultancy Team

Bart Carpenter, BSChemE

• Value chain optimization
• Yield & energy optimization
• Certified Six Sigma Project Champion
• Decision & risk analysis
• Strategy management

Alan Propp, PE, PhD

• Biofuels & biochemicals technology development
• Business development
• Value chain completion

Justin Mao-Jones, BS Operations Research

• Process engineering
• Decision & risk analysis
• Process simulation
• Project economics / business pro formas

Steve Wagner, BSChemE

• Pilot plant scale-up & commercialization
• Technology evaluation
• Business development
• Process evaluaton/feasibility studies

Steve Sondergard, MSChemE

• Supply chain optimization
• Extensive operations experience
• Strategic & operational planning
• Operational excellence & energy efficiency

John Gott, BSChemE

• Operations assessment & improvements
• Troubleshooting & problem solving
• Strategic planning & capital budgeting
• Operating cost reduction
• Competitive analysis, notional refinery modeling

Arie Geertsema, PhD

• Syngas conversion to fuels
• Techno-economic feasibility evaluations
• Intellectual property management
• Project proposals & reviews
• Commercialization of novel technologies

Pam Contag, PhD

• Expert in biofuels & biochemicals
• Advanced biology
• Grant strategy/applications/fund raising
• Molecular Sciences Institute Berkeley, Boart of Trustees
• DOE Technology Advisory Board

Robert C. Schucker, PhD

• Expert in separations science
• Liquid liquid extraction
• Adsorption and electrochemistry
• Ion transport membranes
• Holds 47 patents and authored 10 publications

Daniel J. Robinette, BSChemE

• Expert in water treatment and chemistry
• Design and optimization of water treating systems
• Process simulation and modeling
• National Association of Corrosion Engineers

Robert Streblow

• Energy & utility engineering & construction
• Wind & solar specialist
• Project development
• Project management

Roger Pelham, PE

• Yield & energy optimization
• Refinery steam systems
• Heat exchange integration
• Process modeling

Alvin Nienow, PhD

• Process design/mixing processes
• Stirred bio-reactors
• Bioprocessing