Occupation information for Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers District Of Columbia

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Typical education needed for entry: Bachelor's degree

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: 5 years or more work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: No on-the-job training

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• Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.
• Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.
• Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.
• Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.
• Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.
• Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.
• Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.
• Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.
• Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.
• Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.

Tools:

• Autosamplers
• Bi distillation units
• Carbon filtration equipment
• Desktop computers
• Mass spectrometers

Technology:

• Analytical or scientific software
• Development environment software
• Enterprise resource planning ERP software
• Object or component oriented development software
• Operating system software

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