BIO

Ron Hurst, P.Eng. is the President and Founder of Stratitrope Inc, a company dedicated to developing greenhouse gas reduction technologies. Ron is also President and Founder of Nitec Energy Services, designing environmental protection systems for energy production. Ron has been responsible for energy projects that total more than $1 Billion. His responsibilities included engineering offices in Canada, USA, Poland, UK, and a team of more than 200 in Beijing, PRC for the B&W joint venture. He is now exclusively dedicated to developing greenhouse gas reduction technologies.

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Throughout his career, Ron has led the development of technologies that reduce CO2 emissions by several hundred million kg/year, NOx emissions by several million Kg/year, and significant reductions in mercury and acid gases. This includes technologies awarded Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) as part of the US clean air act, while acting as the Global Vice President and Chief Engineer for Nalco Mobotec (a multipollutant reduction start-up that sold for $42M within 8 years). His optimization software for energy management and CO2 reduction was used on hundreds of large power plants worldwide and sold with the acquisition.

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Ron was also Chief Engineer for Gryphon Engineering Services Inc., (now CHA) in St. Catharines, a consultant that designed projects such as Toronto Harbour Lake Source Cooling project (featured in Canadian Consulting Magazine); The Cogeneration, Lake Source cooling, and District Heat, systems for Cornell University which was Awarded the SYSTEM OF THE YEAR AWARD by the International District Energy Association IDEA.

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Ron speaks passionately and  internationally about air protection and GHG reduction. Most recently, July 2022, at the Reinhold Environmental Conference in Charlotte NC." Using Chemistry Based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to explore duct sorbent injection (DSI) and ACI performance". Pre-Covid, Ron presented “Improving Power Plant Efficiency…” in Houston Texas at the invitation of the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 2019.