Job Description
You will own the engineering scale-up of our downstream gas-phase separations train and the upstream high-temperature reactor that feeds it. The separations train is where the product slate is made: a mixed product vapor is split into discrete gallium, germanium, and silicon streams via staged condensation, desublimation, and scrubbing. The reactor runs hot and in corrosive gas service. Both have to scale from our current multi-kilogram pilot to a 100 ton-per-day facility over the next two and a half years.
This role exists because the unit operations we need have not been built at commercial scale in the United States in over thirty years. You will design them from primary pilot data.
The chemistry is metallurgical, but the engineering rides on top of universal physical principles: hot acid-gas service, multi-component condensation, scrubbing, and recycle loop design. We are explicitly open to candidates from refining, petrochemicals, sulfur recovery, and spec...