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~Thomas A. Edison

Clifford D. Jolly

Technical Director

Cliff D. Jolly, Technical Director, ELS TechnologyCliff has over twenty years' technical and management experience in technology valuation, feasibility assessments, process economic analysis, chemical process development, heterogeneous catalysts, analytical methods, scientific instrument development, component design engineering, program management, technology transfer, chemical and hazardous material safety, industrial waste minimization and environmental chemistry.

He has been responsible for development and commercialization of six technologies developed under combined government/private strategic funding. He has six (6) U.S. Patents, five (5) NASA Certificates of Recognition for technical developments, has received a NASA Space Act Award and was NASA "Inventor of the Year" in 1994.

Ladislav Jezek

Principal Engineer

Ladislav Jezek, Principal Engineer, ELS TechnologyLadislav has 20+ years engineering & technology management experience, including management of design and development of microprocessor control systems for automated production equipment (hardware, firmware) on many common microprocessor and microcontroller platforms, Embedded Controller development for portable instrumentation, ISA and VME bus, complex PLDs, serial communication, A/D converters. He also has 15 years experience in analog design, expertise in high speed and high frequency circuits, servo control with phase locked loop, feedback loop stability, high voltage power supplies, SPICE/MICROCAP simulation; 10+ years experience in software design: C, C++, Assembly language; Real time programming, interrupts handlers; servosystems, digital feedback loops and their frequency compensation, phase lock loop, digital motor control, calibration sub-routines, and data acquisition.

FACILITIES/EQUIPMENT

ELS Technology facilityELS Technology was incorporated in December 1993 and is primarily engaged in design, engineering, and production of commercial water and air treatment and monitoring systems and components, automated instrumentation for industrial applications, process consulting, and commercial analytical & test instrument manufacturing. The company utilizes a fully approved cost accounting system that meets DCAA and other government requirements.

The company operates a 3,500 sq. ft. laboratory, short-run manufacturing facility, and prototype machine shop. The company's current facilities include a ten position catalyst dynamic column test stand, chemical vapor deposition apparatus, materials processing equipment including two high temperature furnaces and extrusion equipment, PAR electrochemical and electrolytic treatment and surface analysis equipment, a biocatalytic reactor, numerous ozone generators, UV equipment, RO/UF treatment hardware (4x40" stainless), process instrumentation for dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity, a Varian 3400 Gas Chromatograph, an OI Model 700 TOC Analyzer, a DR4000 Scanning UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, a PAR Model 384B Polarographic Analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 173 Voltammetric analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 179 Coulometer, PAR Model 175 Universal Programmer, ion-selective electrode-based monitoring equipment, pumps, Programmable Logic Controllers, data acquisition equipment, standard instrumental analysis laboratory equipment, fume hoods & glove boxes for handling small-quantity hazardous materials, a Hobart 175 Amp Mig Welder, drill presses, saws, a milling machine, lathe, and other machine tools.

The company also has a complete electronics design and manufacture station, including analog and digital hardware development stations, a software development station (C++, C#, C, VBasic and Forth), a PROM-burning station, and a component packaging/assembly area.

All company facilities conform to local, State of Colorado, and Federal regulations with regard to waterborne effluents, airborne emissions, external radiation levels, outdoor noise, waste disposal practices, and handling and storage of toxic and hazardous materials.

Overall Capabilities:

ELS personnel have extensive technical and management experience in chemical process development, analytical methods and instrumentation development for industrial processes; project engineering; program management; government and commercial sector contracting; technology transfer; chemical and hazardous material safety; component design engineering; remediation system design; process engineering; industrial waste minimization; environmental chemistry. The company has repeatedly demonstrated innovation and problem-solving abilities.

Past Performance / Affiliations:

Responsible for R/R&D and technology transfer of six technologies developed under combined government/private funding now implemented in the commercial marketplace

Technology Experience:

Heterogeneous catalyst and catalytic process development; treatability, feasibility and demonstration tests; catalytic oxidation (ozone, peroxide, molecular oxygen), hydrogenation, and photocatalytic processes; heterogeneous catalyst preparation techniques; biocatalytic processes; enzyme immobilization techniques; materials engineering; chemistry of metals; mechanical component design and manufacturing; control instrumentation application and development; materials properties and compatibility issues; detailed knowledge of separations and detoxification technologies; water and air quality issues; ion-exchange and adsorption processes; chemistry of solids; RO, UF, and gas/liquid separation membrane technology; filtration technology; derivitization techniques for membranes and other surfaces; solid and liquid phase extraction; a wide variety of water, food, and surface microbial control techniques; phase-change operations; electrochemical techniques; and analytical chemistry.

Process & Product Development Experience:

Alternative Energy, Water Treatment and Environmental

Process Catalysts

Scientific Instrumentation