Scott McDonald is Director of Biofuels Development for Archer Daniels Midland Company. In this role, his responsibilities include identification and development of projects and novel product applications which will expand the use of biofuels and bio-based products into the marketplace. As part of this role, he leads the biofuels technical services team which provides technical support to ADM’s customer base as well as industry expertise to regulatory agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
Additionally, he leads ADM’s of CO2 utilization research programs and is the principal investigator and director of the project: “CO2 Capture From Biofuels Production and Storage into the Mt. Simon Sandstone”, large-scale demonstration of industrial carbon capture and storage projects from industrial sources, a U. S. Department of Energy-National Energy Technology Laboratory Project, Phase I, and II 2009-2015.
Prior to joining ADM, he was the commercial trading manager for TOTAL, a refining and petrochemical company where his job responsibilities included trading and risk management for various feed and finished product streams for the company’s US refining and petrochemical assets. His 20 year career has included trading and risk management, business development, economics and planning, fuels formulation, and unit process design, startup, and operation.
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• Bioenergy’s contribution to low-carbon energy systems
