Profile
Bill Conlon is an accomplished engineer with experience in energy systems, electric power and cogeneration, systems optimization, real-time controls, telecommunications and software. He has broad technical competence, demonstrated by publications and patents in multiple disciplines, and is comfortable in both corporations and startups. An experienced manager of people and projects, and recognized for leadership and communication skills, Bill is a degreed Nuclear Engineer and a licensed Professional Engineer (Mechanical) in the State of California.
Selected Projects
- Conceive, develop, and prepare strategy and proposals for demonstrating utility scale Concentrated Solar Power Systems
- Systems engineering, software architecture and project management for embedded software, including telecom, encryption and instrumentation projects.
- Directed design, implementation and deployment of dozens of web applications and web sites, in collaboration with To the Point.
- Successfully proposed and completed SBIR research grants for NASA and EPA, helping to advance Directional Freeze Crystallization technology for water and wastewater treatment.
- Developed and patented CrystallixTM process for drinking water treatment by crystallization and managed design of innovative consumer point-of-use drinking water appliances.
- Technical and project management of compact, factory-built cogeneration power plants (Cheng Cycle Series 5) for office buildings, hospitals, and prisons.
- Developed control system for first commercial Cheng Cycle Series 7 power plants, now having more than 1 million hours of world-wide operating experience.
- Technical review of simulation models, software, documentation and acceptance test procedures for nuclear power plant control room simulator.
- Designed, developed, installed & commissioned a large thermal-hydraulic test facility (RPI Freon Loop) for nuclear reactor safety research in two-phase flow and heat transfer.
- Designed, built, and tested 128 channel data acquisition system, including analog filters, multiplexers, and real-time assembly language software.
Professional Affiliations
Publications
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- 501-KH Speed Sense Valve Improvements; James Hamill, Gary Owens, William Conlon; presented at the 2002 Rolls-Royce/Allison Turbine Users Association Conference, October 2002.
- Rapid Development of a Cryptographic Module (36k)
- Semiconductor Ultrapure Water (16k)
- Melt System for a Countertop Water Treatment Appliance using Directional Freeze Crystallization, Best Paper Awardee at the 44th International Appliance Technical Conference, May 1993.
- Recent Improvements to the Freeze Crystallization Method of Water Purification, presented at the 43rd International Appliance Technical Conference, May 1992.
- Design and Construction of the First Commercial Cheng Cycle Series 7 Cogeneration Plant; J. L. Jones, C. N. Chang, R. V. Digumarthi, and W. M. Conlon, ASME 85-IGT-122, September 1985.
- An Experimental Investigation of BWR Parallel Channel Effects, W. M. Conlon and R. T. Lahey Jr.; Nuclear Engineering and Design, 73, 3; December 1982.
- An Experimental Investigation of Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor Parallel Channel Effects during a Postulated Loss of Coolant Accident, W. M. Conlon and R. T. Lahey Jr.; NUREG/CR-2971; December 1982.
- Scaling of the RPI Parallel Channel Effects Experiment, W. M. Conlon and R. T. Lahey Jr.; Trans. ANS, 32, p. 436; June 1979.
United States Patents
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| Number |
Invention |
| 5,555,747 |
Control of crystal growth in water purification by directional freeze crystallization |
| 5,438,843 |
Means for liquid purification by batch crystallization |
| 5,231,852 |
Melt system for liquid purification by batch crystallization |
| 5,113,664 |
Melt system for liquid purification by batch crystallization |
| 4,954,151 |
Method and means for optimizing batch crystallization for purifying water |
| 4,790,269 |
Method and apparatus for improved start-up procedures in conventional steam power generators and dual fluid cheng cycle engines |
| 4,735,043 |
Method and apparatus for improved start-up procedures in conventional steam power generators and dual fluid Cheng cycle engines |
| 4,597,256 |
Method and apparatus for improved shutdown procedures in dual fluid Cheng cycle engines |
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