Michael Strommen Discusses 3M’s Renewable Energy Efforts

Martin Bergstedt

Martin Bergstedt is an experienced executive, with a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. He first joined Economics Laboratory at their pilot plant, performing process development and plant start-ups. From there he held positions of progressively increasing scope and responsibility at ETD Technology and DuPont Electronics, and then spent ten years in General Manager positions with Aptus (Westinghouse) Environmental and USFilter (Veolia). He worked at U.S. Water Services as Director of Engineering and Project Management, overseeing the design, specification and installation of water treatment systems for 60 new ethanol plants in a three year period, and is currently General Manager, Eastern U.S. at Amazon Environmental. His greatest successes are when taking underperforming or inexperienced organizations and forging a cohesive effort to accomplish the project or profit objectives.

January 05, 2011

Michael Strommen is the Wind Blade Composites Program Leader at 3M and is helping spearhead the company's efforts to create coatings and films for green technologies. At the E3 Conference in St. Paul, MN, he speak with ChEnected about 3M's focus on wind, energy, and solar conservation. Check out the video in the panel at right for details.

Which of 3M's efforts do you think is most promising?

Comments

That liquid-liquid extraction sounds like it would be a great improvement on the energy balance of ethanol. I currently work with some processes that do essentially that - though with traditional hydrocarbons. This, like almost everything the talked about, is just another way that "traditional" chemical engineering can easily be used to benefit these new processes as they are scaled up and put into large production.