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speaker biographies
Kenneth Porrett
Staff Engineer
General Motors
Ken Porrett is a Staff Engineer with General Motors
Corporation. Ken began his career with GM in 1990
and has held various positions in Validation and HVAC.
His current assignment is with the Global Technology
Engineering group working on global alternative
refrigerants. Ken has also worked on the development of
fuel economy improvements for mobile air conditioning
systems.
Bruno Rose, PSA
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Bruno Rose studied mechanical & thermodynamics
engineering in the Ecole des Mines in Nantes. From
1998, he worked as an engineering consultant for the
automotive and aircraft industries, designing engine
cooling circuits, air conditioning systems and their control
strategies. Since 2004, he is responsible for the Heating
and Air Conditioning engineering group in PSA Peugeot
Citroën, Vélizy.
Carsten Post
Manager, Application and Development
Hydro Aluminium
Educated as Mechanical Engineer from South Danish
University in 1996. Born in Denmark 1970.
Eight years of experience as application and development
engineer at Hydro Aluminium working with development of
heat exchanger components. Three years in a position as
project manager for developing A/C components specific
for R744 air conditioning systems at Hydro Alunova.
Present in a position as manager for Application and
Development in the manufacturing plant of Hydro
Aluminium in Tonder and since 2002 a core team member
of the Piflex P/S project group
Christophe Proust, INERIS
Senior Scientist and Research Manager
French Institute for Industrail Risk
Dr. Proust is specialized in explosions and manages a
team of students, technicians and engineers on a large
scale experimental site close to Paris. After more than 20
years of experience in the field, a significant body of data
has been gathered concerning all the major aspects of
industrail safety including the formation and the ignition of
explosive atmospheres.
Harald Riegel
Manager Development R744 AC
Behr GmbH & Co.KG
Dr. Riegel is currently Manager Development R744 AC at
Behr. He has a Master in Physics PhD. He is a member of
SAE, VDI, and German Physical Society
Eric Scarlett
GM - MPG - HVAC/PTC Development
General Motors
Mr. Scarlett has a BSME from Michigan State
University. He started his working career in 1984 with
Tecumseh Products on refrigerator compressor. In 1989
he joined Ford Motor Company (and later Visteon) were he
worked on compressors and refrigerant systems where he
become a Technical Professional. In 2007 he joined GM in
system development.
Markus Schwerdtfeger
Business Unit Manager Face Seals
KACO GmbH & Co. KG
University degree Engineer (German: “Dipl.-Ing.
Maschinenbau”) I am responsible for running the business
unit “face seals” inside the KACO GmbH. I am a member
of the SABO group; which is a worldwide group of around
4.000 people that develops, manufactures and sells
dynamic seals for automotive and industrial use. I am
responsible worldwide for development, manufacturing
and sales for face seals of our group.
I have a 12 year experience in dynamic seals and for 9
years I have been involved in the development of a shaft
seal for the R744 compressor. For 7 years I have been
responsible for the development of the shaft seal for the
R744 compressor. Our team in Germany has developed
a production ready design for the R744 compressor
shaft seal for various customers worldwide and various
innovative testing equipments to analyze such seals.
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