Dr. Breault has over thirty years of experience in the energy and transport fields and is presently the Team Supervisor for the Thermal Science Team within the Energy Conversion Engineering Directorate of the Research & Innovation Center at a the US DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory where he leads a team focused on reactor development for advanced energy production and emissions reduction. In his current work, he leads the research efforts on chemical looping where he is the PI on the carrier attrition work and on solids separation (char recovery from the circulating carrier material). He is also PI investigating advance fluidization topics that include jet penetration and mixing in risers and vortexing CFBs. He has over 50 per reviewed publications and more than 100 conference papers in areas ranging from combustion and gasification to emissions reduction to fluidization and mass transfer. He received his Ph. D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University. Prior to joining the department of energy, he was Director of Environmental Technologies Division within a subsidiary of Thermo Electron. At Thermo he managed programs on the development of the copper oxide process, a corona based NOx control process, hydrogen production and storage programs as well as programs on combustion, emissions control and heat recovery. Prior to his tenure at Thermo he was a senior engineer at Riley Stoker Corporation and technical leader of fluidized bed technology development. Dr. Breault has been a director of the AIChE’s Particle Technology Forum as well as a director of the Energy Transport Division. Dr. Breault was priviously the US DOEs representative and chair to the IEA Mutiphase Flow Implementing Agreement Executive.