JEFFREY PHILLIPS – EPRI

BIO: Jeffrey Phillips is a Senior Program Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is responsible for EPRI’s advanced generation research activities including the CoalFleet for Tomorrow^® program which is focused on deploying advanced coal-based power plants that include CO₂ capture.

Dr. Phillips began his involvement with the Institute in graduate school, providing support to an EPRI-sponsored project as part of his PhD research. He joined EPRI’s CoalFleet program in 2004 after working for 18 years on coal gasification and combined-cycle projects.

Before joining EPRI, Dr. Phillips worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell group for ten years where he provided technical support to Shell’s 250 ton/day coal gasification demonstration plant in Texas and was part of the start-up team for a 250 MW IGCC in the Netherlands. He then worked as a researcher at Molten Metal Technology where he conducted tests on gasifying hazardous wastes. Later he joined Fern Engineering as a vice president and engineering consultant specializing in performance monitoring of combined cycle power plants.

Dr. Phillips holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a Master of Science degree and doctorate from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, also in mechanical engineering.