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AI for Biofuels Product Managers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Define, plan, or execute biofuels/biodiesel research programs that evaluate alternative feedstock and process technologies with near-term commercial potential.

Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers · O*NET 11-9041.01 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

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What this job involves

18 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 18.

  1. Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.
  2. Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.
  3. Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.
  4. Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.
  5. Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.
  6. Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.
  7. Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.
  8. Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.
  9. Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.
  10. Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.
  11. Conduct experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.
  12. Perform protein functional analysis and engineering for processing of feedstock and creation of biofuels.
  13. Conduct research to breed or develop energy crops with improved biomass yield, environmental adaptability, pest resistance, production efficiency, bioprocessing characteristics, or reduced environmental impacts.
  14. Develop computational tools or approaches to improve biofuels research and development activities.
  15. Develop separation processes to recover biofuels.
  16. Design chemical conversion processes, such as etherification, esterification, interesterification, transesterification, distillation, hydrogenation, oxidation or reduction of fats and oils, and vegetable oil refining.
  17. Design or execute solvent or product recovery experiments in laboratory or field settings.
  18. Develop methods to recover ethanol or other fuels from complex bioreactor liquid and gas streams.