Thomas D. Wolfe
Director
Thomas D. Wolfe was appointed a director in August 2008. He was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D of Open Energy Corporation from December 2006 through July 14, 2008. In 1998, Mr. Wolfe founded WaterEye Corporation where he served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and until WaterEye was acquired by Open Energy in December 2006. Mr. Wolfe has over 25 years’ experience in the chemical process industries, with particular experience in power, water and wastewater treatment technologies. Mr. Wolfe is one of the pioneers in the reverse osmosis field and has made many contributions to the development and advancement of reverse osmosis membrane technology and wastewater evaporation technology dating back to the early 1970’s. He has participated at all levels in some of the largest membrane and evaporator installations in the world and has hands on experience with a wide variety of evaporator configurations including vapor recompression, steam driven single and multiple effect systems, as well as direct contact and submerged combustion processes. Mr. Wolfe developed much of the software currently in use today for reverse osmosis membrane performance prediction and computational chemistry for recovery determination and scale control. Mr. Wolfe has authored more than 20 technical articles and papers in his various fields of involvement and is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Water Works Association.
