Sep 9 2010
Paragon Airheater Technologies (“Paragon”), the leading provider of power plant efficiency products and services for the airheater industry, is pleased to announce that Stephen Storm will join the Company as Director of Business Development and Technology Advancement, effective October 1st, 2010.
Mr. Storm is one of the country's foremost experts on boiler efficiency and has focused much of his 15-year career on optimizing power plant performance for large utility and heavy industrial customers. For over a decade, Mr. Storm was an Executive Vice President in charge of field services at Storm Technologies, an internationally recognized consulting firm focused on utility and industrial power plant performance optimization. Mr. Storm is well known in the power generation community through his frequent industry publications, speaking engagements and demonstrations to industry partners around the world, including joint presentations with the United States Department of Energy Asia Pacific Partnership.
“We are very excited that Stephen has joined the Paragon team,” said Chris Turner, Executive Vice President at Paragon. “Stephen brings a tremendous level of experience in the field of power generation and will be instrumental in extending the value proposition of Paragon’s products and services to the market. With extensive power plant efficiency experience and over 4 years of partnering with Paragon while at Storm Technologies, Stephen will help increase awareness of Paragon’s efficiency solutions to the global power generation and industrial community.”
Mr. Storm commented, “I am looking forward to promoting Paragon’s high performance solutions and services to the market. The Company’s latest innovation, DuraTEC™ is a new nanotechnology tempered vitreous (porcelain) enamel coating that is applied onto the element sheets of a power plant’s regenerative airheater, preventing corrosion and fouling. With Paragon’s extensive capabilities of integrating and validating combustion, mass balance of air and gas, fuel variations, and materials sciences, the DuraTEC™ solution will lead to a longer airheater lifespan, increase boiler thermal performance, and reductions in carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions.”
Mr. Storm is a graduate of Pfeiffer University, Veteran of the United States Coast Guard and has a wife and three children who reside with him at his home in North Carolina. Stephen serves on the board at Pfeiffer and each year is regularly recognized as a leading U.S. expert in the field of power plant performance and optimization.
Source: http://www.paragonairheater.com/