Richard D. Lindsay, Scientific Advisor

Mr. Lindsay has over 25 years experience in plasma systems and plasma based processes. He holds numerous equipment and process patents in the field of high temperature thermal plasma. He is considered to be one of the world leaders in plasma based processes. His strong background in Chemical Engineering along with his extensive experience in building and managing large agricultural chemical facilities uniquely qualifies him as an innovator able to transfer technology to a real world commercial operating environment. He is the former president of Plasma Energy Corp., where he oversaw the development of the DC plasma torch from a lab curiosity to a commercially viable tool. He was the inventor of the process and author of the seminal patents for using plasma to recover aluminum from aluminum waste products.

Vice President – Engineering, Plasma Processing Corp., 1990-1996. He was responsible for the successful operation of the plasma process for recovery of aluminum from dross and the development and deployment
of a plasma based process for the conversion of a waste byproduct from aluminum melting to an advanced refractory material. He ran a successful R&D program which spawned two profitable businesses. At the same time he was responsible for the engineering and maintenance of the world’s first plasma based aluminum dross recovery plant.

President, Plasma Energy Corporation (PEC), 1982-1990. Mr. Lindsay was given the task of determining the technology status of an acquired plasma company. He was then charged with making lemonade from lemons. He proceeded to develop the most reliable and most efficient Direct Current plasma torch in the world. He expanded the life and efficiency of the torches and used them as tools to develop useful industrial processes for treating waste materials and for recovery of valuable metals. Some of the processes were recovery of platinum group metals from spent catalyst, recovery of aluminum from aluminum dross, Vitrification of fly ash, production of Titanium Dioxide, manufacture of rock wool from ash and gasification of Municipal Solid Waste. He left PEC to join Mr. Moore at Plasma Processing Corporation.

Prior to his involvement with plasma, Mr. Lindsay was Maintenance Manager for a large multi-plant complex producing agricultural chemicals. The company was the largest merchant producer of ammonia, urea and melamine in the U.S. He was responsible for building one of the three plants and for maintaining all the plants in good operational order. This included scheduling and managing periodic downtimes.

He has extensive experience in large chemical plant operations and he began his career as a research engineer at Sinclair Research Labs.

BS Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota