Mark Berggren

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Biography

Mr. Mark Berggren serves as Chief Engineer at Pioneer Energy. He has 30 years of experience in research, pilot-scale demonstration, and commercial operations involving gas, liquid, and solid-phase reactions. Various projects have involved systems for delivering vapor or liquid-phase ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, and many other gases. He has considerable experience in the areas of gas cleanup, resource utilization, mineral and metal separations and refining, and recycling. He has led project teams on commercial and government-sponsored programs involving topics such as high-temperature sorption of reducing sulfur gases on metal oxides, physical and chemical upgrading of hydrocarbon fuels, and metals recovery from a large variety of feeds, byproducts, and wastes. Mr. Berggren worked at Amax Research and Development, Inc. (1976 - 1993) where he conducted R&D and pilot-scale process demonstrations involving dehydration, heat-transfer, minerals separation, metals extraction and refining, and oxide reduction. Prior to joining Pioneer Astronautics he worked at Hazen Research, Inc. (1994 - 2000), where he conducted laboratory and pilot-scale programs that included a wide variety of environmental, mineral, metals, energy, and biotechnology topics. He served as project manager on private-client studies that involved advancing laboratory concepts to pilot and commercial stages or trouble-shooting existing commercial operations using laboratory and pilot scale experiments to develop process improvements. Since joining Pioneer Astronautics in 2000, Mr. Berggren served as lead enginer or principal investigator of over 20 highly successful research and development projects. As co-inventor, Mr. Berggren holds six patents.