Education: BS Northwestern University, Physical Chemistry, - 1947;  PhD University of Minnesota, Physical Chemistry - 1952

Areas of Expertise: Alternate fuels; Biomass Gasification, Biomass energy and economics; High temperature techniques; Solid State Materials; Thermodynamics

Professional Experience: 1986 to 2000 Research Professor, Dept. Of Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

1977-1986 Principal Scientist, Thermochemical Research Branch, Solar Fuels and Chemicals Division of the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI, now NREL)

• Designed and tested high pressure oxygen gasifier
• Developed "predictive model" of downdraft gasifier
• Made first synthetic methanol from biomass
• Definition of biomass research programs at SERI
• Taught engineering thermodynamics, CSM

1960-1975 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Research Scientist

• Taught thermodynamics in Materials Science Dept.
• Director of Methanol Division, MIT Energy Laboratory
• Resident crystal growth expert, development of new semiconductors and superconductors

1952-1959 Linde Division of Union Carbide - Research Scientist

• Development of plasma devices
• First synthetic (A) zeolite structure
• Chemical processing
• Synthetic diamond

1947-1948 Shell Oil Company, Research staff

•  Installed instrumentation for oil and mineral research in new laboratory

1944-1945 United States Air Force Cadet

Professional Activities

• President - Biomass Energy Foundation - Current
• Director - Synthetic Fuel Research Center, 1975-78
• Director - Methanol Fuel Division, MIT Energy Lab, 1974-75
• Member - NSF Committee on Renewable Resources
• Member - Battelle Sugar Plant Energy Study
• Member - Producer Gas Roundtable, Royal Institute, Sweden
• Member - AAAS, ACS

Professional Recognition

• Senior Research Fellow, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University, 1965-1966
• 1982 R&D100 award for oxygen gasifier as invention of the year
• 1993 R&D award for Sea Sweep oil absorbent as invention of the year

• Founder and Director of Research for Sea Sweep, Inc. A new oil spill absorbent, current business $180,000/yr
• President Environmental Energy Alternatives, Inc., manufacturers of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil
• Partner in New Harbors, Inc. New consumer products
• President, Biomass Energy Foundation, a not for profit 501(c)3 org.

Patents and Publications (See below

• Atlas of Thermal Properties of Biomass and Other Fuels, (Dekker, Spring 1998)
• "Handbook of Biomass Downdraft Gasifier Engine Systems", the BEF PRESS
• "Gen Gas", (Editor),  the BEF PRESS 
• "Biomass Gasification Principles and Technology", (Editor) Noyes Press, 1981
• Free Energy of Formation of Binary Compounds, MIT Press, 1971, republished by the BEF PRESS
• "Thermal Properties of Biomass and Other Fuels", S. Gaur and T. Reed 1998, Springer Verlag
• "Survey of Biomass Gasification-2001", for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), published by the BEF PRESS

Papers: Over 150 papers in the field of biomass, synthetic fuels and materials research. List available on request (see below).

Patents: Patents: Twelve in the fields of biomass, material science and high temperature technology (see below):

For a more complete bio please visit http://www.woodgas.com/T&V.htm

Mr. Reed is President of the Biomass Energy Foundation operating out of Golden, CO.  See www.woodgas.com