Available Experts and Technology Topics

The technology and business staff of Wilson Solarpower represent breakthrough knowledge and methods in concentrated solar power, ceramic-core heat exchangers and ceramic-bladed microturbines.  Wilson Solarpower experts with current knowledge are available to influence trade articles, to provide quotable insights, and to write both objective articles and editorials.

Prominent among them is one of the company’s founders and its Chairman and President, Bruce N. Anderson, who led the conceptualization of the Wilson CSP system.  Bill Treece, VP Technology has over 40 years of experience developing microturbines.  Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. David Wilson, developed while at MIT the company’s key technologies for advancing heat transfer and microturbine efficiencies. As MIT professor emeritus and a world-renown authority on gas-turbine design and regenerator technology, Dr. Wilson has authored and coauthored several texts and has served on various national committees and commissions.

Typical topics of technical expertise include:

Concentrated solar power
Advantages and disadvantages of various CSP technologies and market implications
Benefits of air over water in CSP systems

Heat exchangers
Added capabilities of high-temperature exchangers and market implications
Benefits of ceramic heat transfer versus metal exchangers

Microturbines
Newer technologies provide significantly higher efficiency
High-efficiency microturbine power without cogeneration

Ceramic components
Unique capabilities of ceramics in heat exchangers
Successfully using ceramic impellers in turbomachinery