WILLIAM B. RETALLICK, P.E., Ph. D.

William B. Retallick has extensive experience in the research, development, and commercialization of chemical processes and catalysts. His diverse experience includes petroleum refining, coal conversion (to synthetic fuels and to chemicals), patent searches and new applications, design and operation of pilot plants, and catalyst development and manufacture.

Selected projects and areas of expertise include:

• Provided expertise in process design to a variety of attorney groups
• Served as an expert witness in courtroom cases
• Reviewed patent literature to confirm patentability of new ideas for clients
• Major contributor /inventor of the automobile catalytic converter catalyst support system
• Secured and managed government funding for a wide range of research projects
• R&D Vice President, hired staff and built a research organization

As a research engineer in Consolidation Coal Company, and later with Air Products and Chemicals, Bill designed and operated micro-reactor systems for catalyst testing and for process development. The small scale of this equipment enabled research to progress more quickly to commercialization and at much lower R&D cost.

While serving as vice president of Oxy Catalyst, Inc., Bill developed the extended surface (honeycomb) metal catalyst support design as well as the means of depositing these catalysts upon the surface. This technology was in the forefront of the automotive and gas turbine exhaust clean up push which led to commercialization of the catalytic muffler in 1987. Bill was awarded 22 patents for his contributions to this technology and remains actively involved as a consultant in this field.

Bill secured government funding for research from the DOE and the National Science Foundation and used these funds to develop a wide range of technologies including a heat pump for automobiles, a catalytic air cleaner, and a hydrogen storage cell.

Bill's BS in Chemical Engineering is from the University of Michigan and his MS and PhD degrees were awarded by the University of Illinois. He is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Illinois, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, The American Chemical Society, and officer and member of the Chemical Consultants Network, of Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon and of the Catalyst Club of Philadelphia. He is author or co-author of many patents and of a series of technical articles, including the Hydroprocesses chapter in Wiley's Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Bill is a consultant to the Chemical Engineering senior plant design course at the University of Pennsylvania.

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