Donald B. Saxman
ANALYST
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
BCC RESEARCH
Japan
Biography
Donald Saxman has 31 years of experience as a technology consultant, technical journalist and author, project manager, and quality assurance manager, with more than 22 years as an analyst with BCC Research. Saxman is a globally recognized technology and business analyst with particular experience in gas separation and enhanced oil recovery through carbon dioxide injection. He is a long-time member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Electrochemical Society and has contributed papers to both organizations. Saxman has also produced more than 85 focused market/technology reports, including detailed analyses of gas separation and delivery markets, enhanced oil recovery, corrosion inhibitors, and industrial gas end uses. He spent 11 years as writer and editor of a unique weekly technology market newsletter called Enhanced Energy Recovery News, was the electrochemistry editor for Membrane and Separation Technology News, and also wrote and edited Waste Treatment Technology News, one of the first monthly technology newsletters to cover carbon sequestration. While working for Zellweger Analytics as a subcontractor for Boeing Aerospace, Mr. Saxman was quality assurance manager for the design, manufacturing, and testing of an organic carbon monitor for the International Space Station's water recycling system. This life critical space qualified hardware was based on a unique solid state approach to carbon dioxide measurement using nondispersive infrared spectroscopy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Indiana University.
Research Interest
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING