CIO / CTO
Vorsana, Inc.
United States
I am an inventor in the field of fluid separation technology. My company, Vorsana Inc., is a startup in the field of carbon dioxide capture and cracking, particularly for post-combustion capture from coal plant flue gas. We are also interested in water disinfection, degassing, and demineralization, including desalination. Our fluid separation process uses no chemicals or membranes. See www.vorsana.com for much more information. I am first-named inventor on 7 pending US nonprovisional patent applications, and CTO of the company. Particular interests include: (1) coal ash slurry dewatering; (2) scrubber sludge dewatering; (3) municipal and industrial wastewater degassing; (4) electrolytic dissociation (cracking) of CO2, NOx, and SOx; (5) syntrolysis of CO2 and water to make syngas; (6) field water purification by cavitation; (7) electromechanical desalination; (8) thermal separation in vortex tubes; (9) dynamic steam condensers; (10) water conservation at thermal power plants, especially improved cooling of cooling water; (11) power harvesting from low temperature waste heat sources using organic Rankine cycle; (12) forced convection boiling for chip cooling.
http://www.fastcompany.com/user/wilmot-mccutchen
CIO / CTO, Vorsana, Inc.
Private, 21-50 employees, Utilities and Energy Services industryCTO.
Brown University, Rhode Island, United States
Bachelor’s degree, 1968.
Areas of study: Psychology.
Activities and societies: Lambda Sigma Nu fraternity.
University of Houston , Texas, United States
JD, 1979.
Areas of study: Law school, passed Texas bar 1981.
Awards: First Prize, ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition 1980.
Activities and societies: Published in Houston J. International Law "Copyright protection for computer firmware in the world market."
University of Houston, Texas, United States
Some college, 1994.
Areas of study: 41 hours of hard science required to qualify to sit for the patent bar exam, including 12 hours of physics.