OVERALL SUMMARY:

Have over 35 years of research experience in energy conversion technologies. Former Supervisor for the Thermal Science Team at the US DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory where I lead teams focused on advanced energy production and emissions control through the exercise of three capability areas: Reactor Engineering, Power Systems Science and Electrochemistry. Experience working on fluidized beds, gasification, solid fuel combustion, chemical looping technology and emissions reduction.  I have over 100 per reviewed publications and more than 150 conference papers/presentations on fluidization, combustion, gasification, chemical looping, emissions reduction, fluidization, and mass transfer. Awards: Three-time member of Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of scientists in the world making both the lifetime and the individual year for the three most recent reported years, 2020, 2021 & 2022, received best paper at the 25th Annual Pittsburgh Coal Conference, the best paper for journal Energies 10th anniversary, and the 2021 Percy Nicholls Award. Co-chair of the Clearwater Clean Energy Conference, an Associate (Lead) Editor/Editorial Board Member for the publication International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment and past directors for the AIChE Particle Technology Forum and the Energy Transport Division. I have a B.S. from Clarkson University and, an M.S, and PhD from the University of New Hampshire; all in Chemical Engineering.

SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS:

Managerial:

• Supervisory Interdisciplinary General Engineer for the Department of Energy, Fossil energy and Carbon Management, National Energy Technology Laboratory Thermal Science Team Supervisor leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-location team of 13 federal researchers and associated post-doc researchers and three competency areas: Multi-Phase Chemical Reactor and Process Development, Advanced Combustion & Heat Transfer Testing and Simulation and Electrochemical Physics and Device Engineering.
• Director of Environmental Technologies Department at Thermo Power. Responsible for direction, general management and technical success of the department as well as generating and developing new businesses in the core areas and commercializing developed technologies.
• Developed a European business company, ECOGY - a Thermo Power Joint Venture in Poland, for products and services. Established the initial business plan with pro-forma income, balance and cash flow statements. Negotiated the company agreement between the partners, the site agreement for the first project, the financing documents for the first project and the subcontracts with the local construction firms. As President, responsible for the annual business plan, financial statements and operation of the company.
• Program Manager for numerous governmental and corporately sponsored programs for contract research and development.  Responsible for budgetary and technical direction.

Strategic Planning:

• At NETL, prepared strategic direction for Thermal Science Team capabilities and competencies. Coordinated and lead the effort for the development of NETL’s DAC Center to evaluate a variety of CO2removal technologies and projects. Assessed and evaluated impact of CO2 removal policies on team capabilities and adjusted team focus. Developed long range plans; organized and directed the work of the team; and provide expert advice to senior leadership.
• At Thermo Power, assembled the entire business venture for a joint venture company in Poland, ECOGY.  This company consists of four partners with Thermo Power Corporation owning 25 percent. Identified the potential investment partners and then marketed the business to these companies and individuals.
• Developed marketing plan and lead marketing effort of Thermo Power’s technology to governmental and commercial groups in the energy and environmental fields.
• Lead the effort to develop technology licenses. These licenses have been for Thermo Power to license emerging technology to improve its position and for Thermo Power to license its developed technology to others.

Technical:

• Lead the design conversion of the chemical looping reactor into the multi purpose Advanced Scale Up Reactor, A 1000C, 11 Bar CFB, Bubbling bed, moving bed solids fed reactor.
• Developed DAC reactor concept for CO2 removal using an NETL developed novel sorbent.
• Lead/manage team developing a CO2 conversion laboratory focusing on thermo-catalytic conversion to fuels and chemicals.
• Modeled CO2 adsorption for point PEI NETL sorbent process
• Developed fundamental theory for mass and heat transfer in circulating fluidized bed reactors based upon cluster size and fluctuating energy.
• Explored the development of an artificial lung using a two-step CO2 & O2 membrane transport reactor.
• Directed research effort on enzyme catalyzed biomass sacrification and fermentation process.
• Operated numerous pilot plants and laboratory reactors making a number of chemicals.
• Corona discharge technology and combustion processes for VOC reduction from soils and air streams.
• Hydrogen storage and production with chemical hydrides.
• Conducted plant economic analyses for numerous systems.

EDUCATION:

1985    Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of New Hampshire

1982    M. S., Chemical Engineering, The University of New Hampshire

1979    B.S., Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University

PATENTS:

U.S. Patent 4,709,663, “Flow Control Device for Solid Particulate Material"

U.S. Patent 5,147,516, “Sulfur Tolerant Coronal Catalyst for NOx Control"

U.S. Patent 5,240,575, “NOx Reduction by sulfur tolerant Coronal‑catalytic apparatus and method"

U.S. Patent 5,458,748, “Coronal‑catalytic apparatus and method for NOx reduction"

U.S. Patent 5,637,198,   "Volatile Organic Compound and chlorinated Volatile Organic Compound Reduction Methods and High Efficiency Apparatus"

U.S. Patent 5,992,041, “Raining bed heat exchanger and method of use”

U.S. Patent 6,030,506, “Preparation of independently generated highly reactive chemical species”

U.S. Patent 6,089,855, “Low NOx multistage combustor”

AWARDS:

ASME 2021 Percy Nicholls Award

Stanford Top 2% World’s Scientists – single year: 2020, 2021 and 2022

Stanford Top 2% World’s Scientists – life work: 2020, 2021, 2002 and 2023(most recent year)

EXPERIENCE:

07/04 – 04/25  DOE NETL, Morgantown

            04/14 to 04/25) Team Supervisor: Thermal Science Team, Energy Conversion Engineering (ECE/TS)

• Supervise and lead a multi-disciplinary, multi-location team of 13 federal researchers and associated post-doc researchers. working on the development of CO2 Removal, CO2 conversion, Gasification of biomass & wastes for H2 production, chemical looping combustion, advanced combustion concepts (sCO2 and rotating detonating engines) and reversable solid oxide cells. Ensure that all milestones are met timely. Lead research on CO2 removal, chemical looping, carrier attrition and fluidization

• Direct RD&D activities and provides active program management to ensure program and technical goals are met.
• Determine how projects in the Thermal Science Team should be conducted and identify programmatic issues, alternative feasible solutions, and provide senior management with recommendations for improving existing programs and processes.
• Provide written products including strategic plans, briefings, talking points, and technical evaluations of the technologies for the Thermal Science Team.
• Lead development of multi-disciplinary products including technical reports, strategic documents, RD&D roadmaps, assessments of relevant policies and regulations, and market or industry assessments for all Thermal Science Team technologies including CO2 removal technology.
• Advise on patents and intellectual property positions associated with engineering and/or physical science and process inventions, and publishes technical reports and articles regarding engineering, scientific, and technological analysis of the Thermal Science Team.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on current and proposed RD&D programs verifying performance requirements and objectives. Provide technical, policy expertise, and strategic planning for all Thermal Science Team RD&D including CO2 Removal.
• Manage and facilitate interdisciplinary cutting-edge RD&D inefficient and cost-effective technology to meet energy and environmental requirements domestically and internationally.
• Monitor RD&D efforts and public policy efforts to present high level analysis of RD&D to senior level managers, providing timely updates to senior management, and collaborating with researchers, end users, and other senior level program participants and stakeholders.
• Lead program analysis and reviews to determine consistency with DOE/FECM and NETL goals and priorities. Provides program information, recommendations, and analysis to time-sensitive requests from senior NETL staff and other key stakeholders.

(01/10 to 04/14) Research Engineer, (Energy Process Innovation Directorate and Computational Science Directorate)

            Technical Coordinator for the ICMI Chemical Looping Combustion projects. In this position, oversaw the technical areas of the chemical looping projects: carrier development, carrier kinetics, reactor modeling and simulation and process plant design. Additionally, was Federal Project Manager for RIC ARRA Project where I managed the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Simulation Initiative (C2S2I). Working effectively with the senior staff for C2S2I and the RIC management to communicate with SCC and the HQ program manager. Ensure that all aspects of the project comply with the established project management procedures for ARRA projects and the Federal Project Management Center guidelines and procedures. Generates the risk assessment and risk register and ensures that the risk register and template are maintained as the project is executed. Ensure that all reports and documentation (project management plans, project execution plans and quarterly reports) were properly recoded. Provide effective participation and leadership for C2S2I management activities including providing review of the quarterly and annual reports, review of the project work plans, review of the project budget and earned value reporting, development and maintenance of the project HQ fact sheets, and weekly inputs in a timely manner.  Conducts and attend meetings to assess project status and communicates work status to RIC management.

(07/04 to 01/10) Project Manager, Gasification and Combustion Projects Division

Managed several projects in the gasification and combustion areas. The most significant of these is the Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) project, a multi year $450 million program with an annual budget of $25 million for the development of the Transport Gasifier and test platform for advanced coal conversion technologies. Other projects include modeling and experimental support activities for the Transport Gasifier and advanced concept power/energy facilities, an advanced steam turbine program, and a mercury removal program. Also acted as the assistant to the Gasification Technologies Manager 04/07 through 01/10. In this assignment, I assisted the gasification Technology Manager in addition to maintaining all my existing project management activities. Specifically in this position I gave several presentations for the Technology Manager.

• “Experience and Growth of Biomass and Waste Gasification” Energy from Biomass and Waste Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September, 2007
• “Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)”, Israeli Delegation, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2007
• “National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) Advanced Gasification Program”, Turkish-American Clean Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2008
• “National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) FBC Update”, Turkish-American Clean Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2008
• “IGCC Status in the U.S.”’ Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, February 2008

In addition to substituting for the Technology Manager, I also drafted the Gasification Program Annual Operating Plans for 2008, 2009 and 2010 for the Technology Manager and tracked the program milestones.

01/04 – 07/04  NRC Senior Associate

DOE NETL, Morgantown

Conduct research on CFB and Transport Reactor for developing data and correlations for interphase mass transfer, solids dispersion and gas dispersion. Correlations related to operating conditions, flow regimes and properties such as granular temperature.  This work lead to the following significant

07/00 –05/04   Wheeling Jesuit University

Director of Technology Degree Program and Assistant Professor of Technology

Responsible for the development of the Technology Degree program and educating the students in the science of technology, project management, and entrepreneurial business development. Courses developed and taught: Evolution of Technology I & II (an introduction to chemical and mechanical engineering), Strategic Management of Technology, Project Management, Process Design and Development, Fluid Systems, Thermal Systems, and Ideas to Markets I & II (a two-semester senior course to develop a prototype technology-based device and build a business plan for the product). Additionally, conducted research at the DOE/NETL facility in Morgantown WV through the ORISE Program. In this research I worked on multiphase gas solids flow analysis.

01/89‑ 06/00   Thermo Technologies Div. of Thermo Power Corp., a Thermo Electron Company

Director of New Business Development and Director of Environmental Technologies

Director of New Business Development. Responsible for generating new business for all the Thermo Technology groups.  This requires familiar and intimate knowledge of the technologies being developed throughout Thermo Technologies.  This includes spark ignition and compression ignition engine modifications and conversions to compressed natural gas, gas compressor development, selective emitter systems for Thermophotovoltaic energy systems as well as many others.

Director of Environmental Technologies. Responsible for the direction, general management and technical success of the department as well as generating and developing new businesses in the core areas, commercializing developed technologies within the department, and developing a European business outlet for products and research from the department. The department focuses on emissions reduction, combustion, gasification and heat recovery technologies. Specific emphasis of the department is on emissions control through the use of sorbent injection for SO2 control; staged combustion, air staging, and reburning for in flame control of NOx; post‑combustion corona discharge technology for NOx reduction; and corona discharge technology for VOC reduction. In addition, over the last two years have broadened in the biomedical and advanced materials areas. Participated directly in all of the programs as either the Program Manager and principal investigator I identified a DOE program in the area of East European business development and successfully proposed a program that would commercialize our technology and started a joint venture company in Poland, ECOGY.

1994‑ 1998      ECOGY, President. ECOGY is a Polish limited liability company with its place of business in Krakow.  This company consists of four partners with Thermo Power Corporation owning 25 percent.  As such, one of the functions of my position at Tecogen is to be President of ECOGY.  In this capacity, I put together the entire business venture. This effort included the establishment of the initial business plan with pro‑forma income, balance and cash flow statements such that investment moneys could be found.  I identified the potential investment partners and then marketed the business to these companies and individuals.  The result was the formation of a company with 65 percent of the capital from JAIDO, 25 percent from Thermo Power and 10 percent from two Polish firms.  In the process of forming the company, I lead all the negotiations for Thermo Power. Specifically, I negotiated the company agreement between the partners, the site agreement for the first project, the financing documents for the first project and the subcontracts with the local construction firms.   Most recently, I put together the materials for the annual meeting and lead the presentation to the partners board.  My presentation summarized the past performance as well as defined the projections for the coming year and laid out the course of action to accomplish these projections.

01/85 – 01/89  Riley Stoker Corporation

Staff Engineer

Program Manager for the design and installation of two circulating fluidized bed capital appropriation projects. Program Manager for combustion and flow investigations in the two fluidized bed facilities.  These programs explored the dense bubbling bed and the entrained bed dynamics in a circulating fluidized bed, the MSFBC.  Program Manager for DOE Mild Gasification Contract. This program was in conjunction with AMAX Coal company and Western Research Institute and focused on designing and building a shallow, inclined fluidized bed dryer and mild gasifier together with the liquid recovery equipment. Principal investigator for a DOE AFBC Advanced Systems Contract. This program had two parts, the first was to develop a packaged small industrial scale fluidized bed system and to extend the performance range for intermediate industrial scale fluidized bed systems. As a senior engineer, conducted slagging combustor retrofit investigations for oil and PC fired boilers. These studies investigated combustor‑boiler interfacing, furnace performance and experimental flow modeling investigations of the combustor and the furnace. The combustor flow modeling investigations mapped the three-dimensional flow field existing at the intersection of coaxial confined jets and the furnace modeling mapped the combustor jet penetration into the furnace to ensure good mixing and no impingement.  Also, conducted two phase flow investigations to model the salted flow in the horizontal section of long L‑valves to improve the flow quality and reduce the pressure drop.

06/82 – 01/85  The University of New Hampshire

Research Assistant

Conducted a research program on solid‑gas flow phenomena in a circulating high velocity fluidized bed (HVFB) system. Developed hydrodynamic models that predict the pressure drop in the HVFB and the system.  Developed combustion and desulfurization models that predict coal conversion and sulfur removal in a HVFB combustion system.

01/80 – 05/82  The University of New Hampshire

Research Assistant

Conducted plant economic analysis for solar‑coal hybrid gasification systems.  Designed two‑stage fluidized bed coal gasification process using simulated solar‑thermal energy. Performed the design calculations to size the equipment for a 1.0 kg/hr two‑stage continuous process.  Contacted vendors to supply the equipment, assembled and operated equipment and analyzed initial data.

12/78 – 01/80  Combustion Engineering

Engineer

Developed test programs for solid‑liquid separation of scrubber effluent slurry and analyzed the results to generate a new series of empirical design equations.  Performed process feasibility study for the neutralization of an acidic environment existing from air pollution control equipment. Analyzed forced oxidation dewatering data for the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Publications: (see Breault publications file)

Books, Book Chapters, Published Reports and Thesis

• Breault, R.W., "The Economic and Technical Feasibility of a Solar‑Coal Gasification System, Master of Science Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 1982.
• Breault, R.W., "Hydrodynamic Characterization and Coal Combustion Modeling of a High Velocity Fluidized Bed," Ph.D. dissertation, The University of New Hampshire, 1985.
• Balsavich, J.C. Breault, R.W., “Integrated emissions control system for residential CWS furnace”, Annual status report number 1, 20 September 1989--30 September 1990, OSTI ID: 10184846; Legacy ID: DE95000375
• Grimanis, M. P., Breault, R.W., “Storage, transportation, and atomization of CWF for residential applications”, 1991, OSTI ID: 6033528; Legacy ID: DE92002131
• Breault, R.W. McLarnon, C., “Integrated emissions control system for residential CWS furnace.”, Final report, September 20, 1989--March 20, 1993”, OSTI ID: 10169951; Legacy ID: DE93018714
• Breault, Roanld W., McLarnon, Chris and Mathur, V.K., “Reaction Kinetics for Flue Gas Treatment of NOx”, Non-Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control: Part B: Electron Beam and Electrical Discharge Processing (pp.239-256) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-78476-7_19
• Litka, A. Breault, R., “Development and testing of a commercial scale coal-fired combustion system -- Phase 3”, Final technical progress report, September 26, 1990--August 31, 1994, OSTI ID: 257348; Legacy ID: DE96012560
• McClaine, A.W. Breault, R.W., “Integration of thickener underflow into thermal dryer circuit”, Final report, 1998, OSTI ID: 589905; Legacy ID: DE98050581
• Breault, R. W. “Mass and Heat Transfer Modeling” in Computational Gas-Solids Flows and Reacting Systems: Theory, Methods and Practice, edited by S. Pannala, M. Syamlal and T. O’Brien, (2011) Engineering Science reference, PA
• Shadle, L. J, and Breault, R. W., “Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle” Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation Chen, W.-Y.; Seiner, J.; Suzuki, T.; Lackner, M. (Eds.), Springer, New York, (2012) ISBN 978-1-4419-7991-9, Pages 1545 – 1604.
• Andrew W. Mc Claine, Ronald W. Breault, Jonathan Rolfe, Christopher Larsen, Ravi Kanduri, Gabor Miskolczy, and Frederick Becker, “Hydrogen Storage Using Slurries of Chemical Hydrides”, ADVANCES IN HYDROGEN ENERGY, Edited by Catherine E. Grégoire Padró and Francis Lau. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000
• Shadle, L. J, and Breault, R. W., Bennett, J., “Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle” Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation, 2 edition, Chen, W.-Y.; Seiner, J.; Suzuki, T.; Lackner, M. (Eds.), Springer, New York, (2015) Revision submitted for the second edition.
• Sam Bayham, Nathan Galinsky, Esmail Monazam, Ronald W. Breault, Chapter 9 Oxygen Carrier Structure and Attrition, Submitted December for inclusion in Chemical Looping Handbook, Edited by Ronald W. Breault, John Wiley Publications. ISBN:978-3-527-34202-0
• Hanjing Tian, Ranjani Siriwardane, Esmail Monazam, Ronald W. Breault, Economically viable Fe2O3-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping, Submitted December for inclusion in Chemical Looping Handbook, Edited by Ronald W. Breault, John Wiley Publications.  ISBN:978-3-527-34202-0
• Lawrence J. Shadle, Ronald W. Breault, and Natarianto Indrawan, Drafted to be submitted to Springer Publishing Co., New York, New York as chapter entitled, Gasification Technologies, in 3rd Edition Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Eds. Wei-Yin Chen et al.,

Peer Reviewed

• Mathur, V. K, Breault, R W., Lakshmanan, S. K., Manasse, F and Venkataramanan, V. (1981) "A Continuous Two Stage Solar Gasification System," AIChE Symposium Series, Fundamentals and Applications of Solar‑Energy ‑ Part II, Vol. 77, No. 210, 1981. 47-54.

• Mathur, V.K., Breault, R.W., and Lakshmanan, S., "Synthesis Gas Production by the Solar Gas Process," Energy Process, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 91‑95, 1982.

• Mathur, V.K., Breault, R.W., and Lakshmanan, S., "Coal Gasification Using Solar Energy," Solar Energy, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 433‑440, 1983.

• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "Two Phase Flow in a Loop Fluidized Bed," Multi‑Phase Flow and Heat Transfer III, Part B: Applications, edited by T.N. Veziroglu and A.E. Bergles, Miami, 1984.

• Farag, I.H., Breault, R.W., Karri, S.B.R., and Tsai, K. Y., "Graphical Solution of Multistage Fluidized Bed Heat Exchanger," Chemical Engineering Communications, 48 (4‑6), pp. 331‑340, 1986.

• Farag, I.H., Breault, R.W., Karri, S.B.R., and Tsai, K. Y., "Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Reaction Conversion in Fluidized Beds Using the Bubbling Bed Model," Heat and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1‑2, 1987.

• Breault, R.W., "NOx Emissions from a Staged Circulating Fluidized Bed Process: The Multi‑Solids Fluidized Bed Combustor," ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Boston, 1987.

• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "High Velocity Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamic Modeling: 1. Fundamental Studies on Pressure Drop," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 28, 1989.

• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "High Velocity Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamic Modeling: 2. Circulating Bed Pressure Drop Modeling," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 28, 1989.
• Breault, R. W., McClain, A. W., Rolfe, J., Konduri, R., Miskolczy, G., “Integrated hydrogen production and storage with chemical hydride slurry for energy in the 21^st century”, Energy 2000: the beginning of a new millenium : ENERGEX 2000 : proceedings Edited by Peter J. Catania, Naomi Balaban, Brian Golchert, (2000) 495-501,
• Breault, R.W., Yue, P. and Ludlow, J.C., “Cluster particle number and granular temperature for cork particles at the wall in the riser of a CFB”, Powder Technology 149 ( 2005) 68-77.
• Breault, R. W., Shadle, L. J. and Pandey, P. “Granular Temperature, Turbulent Kinetic Energy and Solids Fraction of Cork Particles at the wall in the Riser of a CFB”, Circulating Fluidized Bed Technology VIII (2005) 755-761.
• Breault R. W., and Guenther, C. “Two and three dimensional simulations investigating dispersion and mass transfer coefficients in an Eulerian-Eulerian CFD model”, Fourth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil and Gas, Metallurgical & Process Industries (2005) Trondheim, Norway
• Piotrowski, K., Wiltowski, T., Szymanski, T., Mondal, K., Rathinaswamy, V., Breault, R.W., Stonawski, L., “Cycling effects on the methane regeneration kinetics of CuO/g-AL2O3 sorbent”, Chem. Eng. Jour. 108 (2005) 227-237
• Piotrowski K., T. Wiltowski, T. Szymanski, K. Mondal, V. Rathinaswamy, R. Breault, L. Stonawski, Kinetic Studies  on the CuO-γAl₂O₃ – Sorbent Regeneration by Methane, Environmental Technology, Volume 27, Number 1, January 2006 pp. 71-83.
• Breault, R. W., “A review of gas-solids dispersion and mass transfer coefficient correlations in circulating fluidized beds”, Powder Technology 163 ( 2006) 9-17.
• Breault R.W., Guenther, C., “Solids Flux, Velocity and Local Solid Fraction Measurements in a CFB Riser”, Fluidization XII, New Horizons in Fluidization Engineering, Ed. X. Bi, F. Berruti and T. Pugsley, (2006), ISBN: 978-0-918902-57-3, Pages 110-118.
• Igci, Y., S. Sundaresan, S. Pannala, T. O’Brien and R. W. Breault, “Coarse-graining of two-fluid models for fluidized gas-particle suspensions” Fifth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil and Gas, Metallurgical & Process Industries (2006), Melbourne, Australia, ISBN: 0 643 09423 7
• Spenik, J., Ludlow, J.C., Compston, R., Breault, R.W., “Measurement of Gas Velocities in the Presence of Solids in the Riser of a Cold Flow Circulating Fluidized Bed” Fluidization XII, New Horizons in Fluidization Engineering, Ed. X. Bi, F. Berruti and T. Pugsley, (2006), , Pages 103-110.
• Smutzer, C., Breault, R.W., and Wilson, R.P., "Impact of hydrogen assisted lean operation (HALO) on natural gas engine combustion", Proceedings of the 2006 Fall Technical Conference of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Divsion, ASME, New York, c2006, ISBN 0-7918-4260-6, pp. 127-137.
• Guenther, C., Breault, R.W., “Wavelet analysis to characterize cluster dynamics in a circulating fluidized bed”, Powder Technology, Volume 173, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-173
• Jiradiloka, V., Gidaspow, D. and Breault, R.W., “Computation of gas and solid dispersion coefficients in turbulent risers and bubbling beds”, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 62, Issue 13, July 2007, Pages 3397-3409
• Breault, R. W., Guenther, and Shadle, L.J., “Velocity fluctuation interpretation in the near wall region of a dense riser”, Powder Technology, Volume 182, Issue 2, 22 February 2008, Pages 137-145
• Casleton, K.H., Breault, R.W., Richards, G.A., “System Issues and Tradeoffs Associated with Syngas Production and Combustion”, Combustion Science and Technology:  (2008) Volume 180 Issue 6, pages 1013 - 1052
• Richardson, B., Brenner, T., Cizmas, P., O'Brien, T., and Breault. R.W., “Acceleration Techniques for Reduced- Order Models Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition” Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 227, Issue 16, 10 August 2008, Pages 7791-7812
• Breault, R. W., and Guenther, , “Mass Transfer in the Core-Annular and Fast Fluidization Flow Regimes of a CFB”, Powder Technology Volume 190, Issue 3, 25 March 2009, Pages 385-389
• Ronald W. Breault, “Gasification Processes Old and New: A Basic Review of the Major Technologies”, Energies 2010, 3(2), 216-240, 23 February 2010
• Breault, R. W., and Guenther, , “Mass transfer coefficient prediction method for CFD modeling of riser reactors”, Powder Technology, Volume 203, Issue 1, 25 October 2010, Pages 33-39
• Brenner, T., Fontenot, R. L., Cizmas, P., O'Brien, T., and Breault. R.W., - “Augmented proper orthogonal decomposition for problems with moving discontinuities”, Powder technology, Powder Technology, Volume 203, Issue 1, 25 October 2010, Pages 78-85
• Breault, R.W., “An analysis of clustering flows in a CFB riser” Powder Technology, Volume 220, April 2012, Pages 79–87
• Breault R.W., Casleton, E. M., and Guenther, C. P., “Chaotic and Statistical tests on Fiber optic dynamic data taken from the riser section of a circulating fluidized bed”, Powder Technology, Volume 220 (2012) Pages 151 - 163.
• Brenner, T., Fontenot, R. L., Cizmas, P., O'Brien, T., and Breault. R.W., “A reduced-order model for heat transfer in multiphase flow and practical aspects of the proper orthogonal decomposition”, Computers and Chemical Engineering 43 (2012) 68– 80.
• Monazam, E. R., Siriwardane, R., Breault,R. W., Tian, H., Shadle, L. J., Richards, G., and Carpenter, S., “Kinetics of the Reduction of CuO/Bentonite by Methane (CH₄) during Chemical Looping Combustion”, Energy and Fuels, Volume 26, Issue 5, (2012) 2779–2785
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W., Siriwardane, R., Tian, H., Simonyi, T., and Carpenter, S., “Effect of Carbon Deposition on Oxidation Rate of Copper/Bentonite in Chemical Looping Process”, Energy Fuels, 2012, 26 (11), pp 6576–6583
• Ryan, E.M., DeCroix, D., Breault, R. W., Xu, W., Huckaby, E.D., Saha, K., Dartevelle, S., Sun, X., “Multi-Phase CFD Modeling of Solid Sorbent Carbon Capture System” Powder Technology Volume 242, July 2013, Pages 117-134
• Breault, R. W., Li, T. and Nicoletti, P., “ Mass Transfer Effects in a Gasification Riser” Powder Technology, Volume 242, July 2013, Pages 108-116
• Shaffer, F., Gopalan, B., Breault, R. W., Cocco, R., Kerri, S. B. Reddy, Hays, R., and Knowlton, T., “High speed imaging of particle flow fields in CFB risers”, Powder Technology, Volume 242, July 2013, Pages 86-99
• Breault R.W., and Huckaby, D., “Parametric behavior of a CO₂ capture process: CFD simulation of solid-sorbent CO₂ absorption in a riser reactor”, Applied Energy, Volume 112, December 2013, Pages 224-234
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W., Siriwardane, R., and Miller, D., “Thermogravimetric Analysis of Modified Hematite by Methane (CH4) for Chemical-Looping Combustion: A Global Kinetics Mechanism”, Eng. Chem. Res., 2013, 52 (42), pp 14808–14816
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W., Siriwardane, R., Richards, G. and Carpenter, S., “Kinetics of the reduction of hematite (Fe2O3) by methane (CH4) during chemical looping combustion: A global mechanism” Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 232, October 2013, Pages 478-487
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W. and Siriwardane, R., “Reduction of hematite (Fe2O3) to wüstite (FeO) by carbon monoxide (CO) for chemical looping combustion” Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 242, 15 April 2014, Pages 204-210
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W. and Siriwardane, R., “Kinetics of Hematite to Wüstite by Hydrogen for Chemical Looping Combustion” Energy Fuels, 2014, 28 (8), pp 5406–5414
• Spenik, James L., Shadle, Lawrence J., Breault, Ronald W., Hoffman, James S., and Gray, McMahan L., “Cyclic Tests in Batch Mode of CO2 Adsorption and Regeneration with Sorbent Consisting of Immobilized Amine on a Mesoporous Silica”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2015, 54 (20), pp 5388–5397
• Breault, Ronald W. and Monazam, Esmail R., “Fixed bed reduction of hematite under alternating reduction and oxidation cycles”, Applied Energy 145 (2015) 180–190
• Breault, Ronald W. and Monazam, Esmail R., “Analysis of fixed bed data for the extraction of a rate mechanism for the reaction of hematite with methane”, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 29 (2015) 87–96
• Breault, Ronald W. Monazam, Esmail R., and Carpenter, Jared T., “Analysis of hematite re-oxidation in the chemical looping process”, Applied Energy 157 (2015) 174–182
• Breault, Ronald W., Yarrington, Cory S. and Weber, Justin M., “The Effect Of Thermal Treatment Of Hematite Ore For Chemical Looping Combustion Of Methane”, J. Energy Resour. Technol 138(4), 042202 (Dec 15, 2015)
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W., Tian, H. and Siriwardane, R., “Reaction Kinetics of Mixed CuO−Fe2O3 with Methane as Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping Combustion”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2015, 54, 11966−11974
• Ronald W. Breault, Steven L. Rowan, Esmail Monazam and Kyle T. Stewart, “Lateral particle size segregation in a riser under core annular flow conditions due to the Saffman Lift Force”, Powder Technology, 299, (2016) 119-126.
• Monazam, Esmail R., Breault, Ronald W., Shadle, Lawrence J. “Pressure and apparent voidage profiles for riser with an abrupt exit (T-shape) in a CFB riser operating above fast fluidization regimes” Powder Technology 291 (2016) 383–391
• Panday, Rupen, Breault, Ronald and Shadle, Lawrence J., “Dynamic modeling of the circulating fluidized bed riser”, Powder Technology 291 (2016) 522–535
• Breault, RW, Monazam, ER, Modeling of the Reduction of Hematite in the Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane using Barracuda, Energy Technology, Special Issue: Chemical Looping for Energy Technologies, 2016, Volume 4, Issue 10, Pages 1125–1327.
• Breault, RW, Spenik, JL., Shadle, LJ., Hoffman, JS., Gray, ML., Panday, R.,Stehle, RC., Carbon capture test unit design and development using amine-based solid sorbent, Chemical Engineering Research and Design 1 1 2 (2016) 251–262
• Bayham, S. C., Breault, R. W., Monazam, E.R., Particulate solid attrition in CFB systems – An assessment for emerging technologies, Powder Technology, Volume 302, November 2016, Pages 42-62
• Bayham, S.C.; Breault, R.; Monazam, E. “Applications of tribology to determine attrition by wear of particulate solids in CFB systems.” Powder Technol. (2017) 316, 59-68.
• Esmail R. Monazam, Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber- Analysis of maximum pressure drop for a flat-base spouted fluid bed, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Volume 122, June 2017, Pages 43–51
• Monazam, Esmail; Breault, Ronald; Freed, Adam; Shadle, Lawrence J. ; Lawson, Larry ; Rowan, Steven (2017) "Development and Verification of a Dynamic Model for a Cold Flow Circulating Fluidized Bed" Industrial & Engineering Process Design and Control 56, 288−300, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b03536
• Lawrence J. Shadle, David Tucker, Ronald Breault, Rupen Panday, Esmail Monazam, Justin Weber, Paolo Pezzini, Ben Chorpening, Samuel Bayham, Kenneth M. Bryden, Dennis Lynch (2017) Cyber-Physical Observer for Fluid Bed-Chemical Looping Control Applications, Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Power for Land, Sea and Air GT2017-6488.
• Esmail R. Monazam, Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Ky Layfield, "Minimum spouting velocity of flat-base spouted fluid bed", Particuology July 2017, undefined, R.W.; Weber, J.; Straub, D.; Bayham, S. “Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of the Fuel Reactor in NETL’s 50 kWth Chemical Looping Facility.” J. Energy Res. Technol. 2017, 139, 042211 1-8, doi:10.1115/1.4036324
• Lawrence J. Shadle, Samuel Bayham, David Tucker, Paolo Pezzini, Esmail Monazam, Justin Weber, Ronald Breault, Mark Bryden, “A Cyber-Physical Observer for Fluidized Bed Chemical Looping Process Development” Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 995-1002.
• Samuel Bayham, Justin Weber, Doug Straub, Ronald Breault, Performance Of A Raw Hematite And A Manufactured Copper-Iron Oxygen Carrier in a 50-KW Natural Gas Chemical Looping System, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 917-924.
• Steven L. Rowan1, Ronald W. Breault, David A. Berry, Nicholas Hillen, Processing Cohesive Fine Particles in a Spouted Bed Via Mixing With Spoutable Media, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 509-516.
• Michael Bobek, Steven Rowan, Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Esmail Monazam, Fluidized Bed Process Intensification Via High-G Flows, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 133-139.
• Ronald Breault, Samuel Bayham, Nathan Galinsky, Esmail Monazam, Attrition Prediction For New Materials an Circulating Fluidized Systems, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 405-411.
• Lawrence J. Shadle, Rupen Panday, Esmail Monazam, Ronald Breault, Steve Rowan, and Justin Weber, Dynamic Aspects of Solids Flow In A Circulating Fluid Bed, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, Ed: Wojciech Nowak, Marek Sciazko, Pawel Mirek. (2017) 225-229.
• Monazam, E.; Breault, R.; Fauth, D; Shadle, L. J. ; Bayham, S. "Insights into the Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide in the Presence of Water Vapor Utilizing a Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine-Impregnated CARiACT Silica Sorbent." Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., In Press (2017). DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b01271
• Bayham, S.; Breault, R.; Weber, J. "Chemical looping combustion of hematite ore with methane and steam in a fluidized bed reactor." Energies 2017, 10(8), 1179 ,doi:10.3390/en10081179
• Justin M. Weber, Richard C. Stehle, Ronald W. Breault, Juray De Wilde, "Experimental study of the application of rotating fluidized beds to particle separation", Powder Technology, Volume 316, 1 July 2017, Pages 123–130
• Monazam ER, Breault RW, Layfield K, Weber J (2017) Experimental Investigation of Gas-Solid Disengagement in Bubbling Fluidized Bed Cold Model. J Chem Appl Chem Eng 1:1.
• Michael Bobek1, Steve Rowan, Jingsi Yang, Justin Weber, Frank Shafer, Ronald W. Breault, "ANALYSIS OF A VORTEXING CFB FOR PROCESS INTENSIFICATION VIA HIGH-G FLOWS" Accepted 12/28/2017, Journal of Energy Resources Technology
• Steven L. Rowan , Jingsi Yang, Michael C. Bobek, Ronald W. Breault, "ESTIMATION OF MINIMUM SPOUTING VELOCITY IN A RECTANGULAR SPOUTED BED", JERT June 2018, Vol 140, No 6, 062003
• Weber, Bobek, Breault, Shadle, Investigation of Core-Annular Flow in an Industrial Scale Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser with Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) Powder Technology, June 2017, Volume 327, March 2018, Pages 524-535, undefined
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber and Steven L. Rowan “Determination of flow patterns by a novel image analysis technique in a rectangular spouted bed”, Powder Technology, Volume 334, 1 July 2018, Pages 151-162,  undefined
• Panday, R., Shadle, L. J., Breault, R.W., “Real time implementation of standpipe model for solids flow in circulating fluidized Bed”, Proceeding of the ASME Power and Energy 2018, Lake Buena Vista, FL, June 24-28, 2018
• Ronald W. Breault, Lawrence J. Shadle, Design, development and operation of an integrated fluidized carbon capture unit using polyethyleneimine (PEI) sorbents, JERT, June 2018, Vol 140, No 6, 062202
• Monazam, Breault, Shadle, Weber, Analysis of solids flow rate through non-mechanical L-valve in an industrial scale Circulating Fluidized Bed using Group B particles Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(33), Pages11439-11451. DOI:10.1021/acs.iecr.8b01051
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald W. Breault, Steven L. Rowan, "Applying image processing methods to study hydrodynamic characteristics in a rectangular spouted bed", Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 188, 12 October 2018, Pages 238-251 (selected for Journal Cover Art)
• Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Lawrence J. Shadle,, The development of a generalized riser flow regime map based upon higher moment and chaotic statistics using electrical capacitance volume tomography (ECVT), undefined
• Esmail R. Monazam, Nathan L. Galinsky, Ronald W. Breault, Samuel C. Bayham Attrition of hematite particles for chemical looping combustion in a conical jet cup Powder Technology, Volume 340, December 2018, Pages 528-536
• Weber, Bobek, Breault, Shadle, Investigation of Core-Annular Flow in an Industrial Scale Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser with Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) Article Type: Research Paper Powder Technology – Powder Tech, Revision Submitted 11/15/17. Powder Technology, Volume 327, March 2018, Pages 524-535, undefined
• Michael Bobek, Steven Rowan, Jingsi Yang, Justin Weber, Ronald W. Breault, "Analysis of a Vortexing CFB for Process Intensification via High-G Flows", JERT – Revision Submitted 12/14/2017. JERT June 2018, Vol 140, No 6, 062003
• Ronald W. Breault, Steven L. Rowan, Justin M. Weber and Jingsi Yang, “Effects of Riser Diameter on Solids Holdup and Particle Velocity Profiles in Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser Systems”, Accepted to JERT Dec 2019
• ¶Steven L. Rowan, Ronald W. Breault, Justin M. Weber, Narasimhan Soundarrajan, "Process Failure Detection via Recurrence Quantification Analysis", Accepted to JERT Jan 2020
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald Breault, Steven Rowan, Justin Weber, "Experimental study on flow characterization of a rectangular spouted bed by image processing", undefined
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald Breault, Steven Rowan. "Experimental investigation of fountain height in a shallow rectangular spouted bed using digital image analysis",  undefined
• Weber, J., Bobek, M., Rowan, S., Yang, J., Breault, R., "TRACKER, AN OPENSOURCE PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY (PTV) APPLICATION APPLIED TO MULTIPHASE FLOW REACTORS," AJKFLUIDS2019-5181, Proceedings of the ASME-JSME-KSME 2019 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Monazam, Shadle, and Breault, Operational performance characteristics of an aerated L-valve operated within a closed circulating fluidized bed loop, Powder Technology, 354, 2019, p. 82-91. undefined
• Rupen Pandy, Lawrence J. Shadle, Ronald W, Breault, Real Time Implementation of Standpipe Model for Solids Flow in Circulating Fluidized Bed, Proceeding of the ASME Power and Energy 2018, June 24 - 28, 2018, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA
• Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, and Lawrence J. Shadle (2020) The Development of a Generalized Riser Flow Regime Map based upon higher Moment and Chaotic Statistics Using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT), Powder Technology, Volume 365, 1 April 2020, p.12-27. ISSN 0032-5910, undefined
• Rowan, S. L., Breault, R. W., Weber, J. M., and Soundarrajan, N. (March 13, 2020). "Process Failure Detection via Recurrence Quantification Analysis in a Slot-Rectangular Spouted Bed." ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. July 2020; 142(7): 072103. undefined
• Breault, R. W., Rowan, S. L., Weber, J. M., and Yang, J. (February 28, 2020). "Effects of Riser Diameter on Solids Holdup and Particle Velocity Profiles in Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser Systems." ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. July 2020; 142(7): 070903. undefined
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald W. Breault, and Justin M. Weber, “Hydrodynamic Characterization of a Shallow Rectangular Spouted Bed Using Bed Pressure Signals and Image Processing Methods,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2020 59 (7), 3064-3076, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b05711
• Ronald W Breault, Justin Weber; Jingsi Yang, “Saturation carrying capacity for Group B particles in a circulating fluidized bed”, Powder Technology, Volume 384, May 2021, Pages 442-451 undefined
• Breault, Weber, “Saturation carrying capacity for Group A particles in a circulating fluidized bed” Invited Paper submitted to Energies, Special Issue: Progress and Novel Applications of Fluidized Bed Technology, Energies 2021, 14(10), 2809; undefined
• Wei, Weber, Breault, “Numerical investigation of the penetrating gas flow into particle clusters for circulating fluidized beds” Accepted Powder Volume 388, August 2021, Pages 442-449 undefined
• Natarianto Indrawan, Lawrence J. Shadle, Ronald W. Breault, Rupendranath Panday, Umesh K. Chitnis” Data analytics for leak detection in a subcritical boiler”, Energy, Volume 220, 1 April 2021, 119667  undefined
• Wei, X., Weber, J., Breaullt, R.W., “Numerical investigation of the penetrating gas flow into particle clusters for circulating fluidized beds”, Powder Technology, Volume 388, August 2021, Pages 442-449
• Breault, Ronald W., “Scaling CFB risers: Maintaining microstructure dynamics”, Powder Technology, Volume 415, 1 February 2023, 118191
• Breault, Ronald W., “Scaling CFB risers: Beyond the data using microstructure similarity”, Powder Technology, Volume 433, 15 January 2024, 119237
• Breault, R. W., “Design Approach for Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser Reactors: A Review for Clustering Flow”, Submitted to Energies, April 2025.
• VanOsdol, J.G., Rowan, S., Breault, R. W., “Modeling the Advance Scale-Up Reactor Experiment (ASURE) Facility at NETL as a Temperature Controlled Pyrolizer”. Submitted October 2024 to International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment, currently under review.
• Rowan, S., Breault, R., and Weber, J. Fluidization Regime Mapping Analysis for 200 μm Glass Beads in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser, Submitted October 2024 to International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment, currently under review.
• Prlina, A. G., Breault, R. W., Eddings, E. G., “MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION OF SUPERCRITICAL CO2 GASIFICATION FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION”, Volume 24, Issue 8, 2023, pp. 1-14 DOI: 10.1615/InterJEnerCleanEnv.2022045546

Un-reviewed Conference Papers

• Mathur, V.K., Breault, R.W., and Lakshmanan, S., "Synthesis Gas Production using "Sun Gas" Process," AIChE National Meeting, Orlando, FL, 1982.

• Mathur, V.K., Breault, R.W., and Lakshmanan, S., "Economic and Technical Feasibility of UNH Solar Hybrid Coal Gasification Process," The 1982 Annual Technical Meeting ‑ Solar Thermal Test Facility Users Association, Houston, TX, 1982.

• Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., "Coal Combustion in a Loop Fluidized Bed," Proceedings of Third Mediterranean Congress on Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, 1984.

• Farag, I.H., Breault, R.W., Reddy, S. B., and Tsai, K. Y., "Bubbling‑Bed Model Computation in Fluidized Beds," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, July 1985.

• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "Fundamental Studies of Pressure Drop in High Velocity Fluidization," AIChE Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1985.

• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "Pressure Drop Modeling of a Circulating High Velocity Fluidized Bed System," AIChE Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1985.

• Breault, R.W., "Sulfur Removal Modeling in a Circulating Fluidized Bed: The Multisolids Fluidized Bed Combustor," 1987 AIChE Presented at the National Meeting, Houston, TX, March 1987.

• Breault, R.W., "Theoretical Modeling of the Multisolids Fluidized Bed Combustor: Hydrodynamics, Combustion, and Desulfurization," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, Boston, MA, May 1987.

• Lisauskas, R.A. and Breault, R.W., "Energy Recovery From the Combustion of Wastes in the Multisolid Fluidized Bed Combustor," International Symposium on Incineration of Hazardous, Municipal, and Other Wastes, Palm Springs, 1987.

• Mongeon, R.K. and Breault, R.W., "The Economic Advantages of an Advanced MSFBC System for the Light Industrial Market," Comparative Economics of Clean Coal Technologies, Grand Junction, CO, 1987.

• Cha, C.Y., Breault, R.W., Jha, M.C., and Merriam, N.W., "Advance Concept for the Production of Co‑Products," Eighth Annual Gasification and Gas Stream Cleanup Systems Contractors Review Meeting, Morgantown, 1988.

• Cha, C.Y., Breault, R.W., Jha, M.C., and Merriam, N.W., "Development of an Advanced Continuous Mild Gasification Process for the Production of Co‑Products," Topical Report, Contract DE‑AC21‑87MC24268, 1988.

• Breault, R.W., "The Effect of Fuel Switching on Carbon Conversion Efficiency in Circulating Fluidized Bed Units," JPGC, Philadelphia, 1988.

• Breault, R.W., Reicker, E. L., Mongeon, R.K., and Hall, A.W., "An Advanced Concept Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor Applicable to the Industrial Market," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

• Farag, I.H., Breault, R.W., Mongeon, R.K., and Hall, A.W., " Multi‑Solids Fluidized Bed (MSFB) Combustion Modeling and Analysis," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

• Ake, T.R., Mongeon, R.K., Breault, R.W., and Hall, A.W., "The Development and Application of Scaling Laws for a Circulation Fluidized Bed Package Boiler," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "CWS Handling Experience on Small Scale Combustors," Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Coal and Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1990.

• Sayer, A.N. and Breault, R.W., "Storage, Transport and Handling of CWF for Small‑Scale Combustors," Sixth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1990.

• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "Development of an Integrated Emissions Control System for Residential CWS Furnaces," Sixth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1990.
• Grimanis, M.P., Jha, M.C., Smitt, F, and Breault, R.W., "Storage Considerations for Beneficiated Coal Water Slurry Fuels," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.

• Gyorke, D.F., Ruth, L. A., Mansour, M. N., and Breault, R.W., "Demonstration of Commercial‑Scale Coal‑Fired Advanced Combustion Systems," Air and Waste Management Association 84th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1991

• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "An Emission Control System for Small Scale Combustion Systems," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.

• Grimanis, M.P., Zografos, A. I. and Breault, R.W., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Storage, Handling and Atomization," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "An Advanced CWS‑Fired Commercial‑Scale Combustor System," Eighth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.

• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "A Small Scale Combustor Emission Control System," Eighth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.

• Breault, R.W. and Chigier, N., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Atomization of Coal‑Water Slurry Fuels," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.

• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "An Emission Control System for Small Scale Combustion Systems," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.

• Grimanis, M.P. and Breault, R.W., "Slurry Handling Requirements in Small scale Applications," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.

• Chini, J., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., " An Advanced Corona Discharge NOx Control System," AIChE Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1992.
• Nieh, S., Litka, T.F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of Small‑Scale Coal Combustion Systems using Vortex Technology," Energy and Environment: Transitions in Eastern Europe Conference, Prague, CZ, 1992.
• Grimanis, M.P. and Breault, R.W., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Storage and Handling," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1992.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "An Advanced CWS‑Fired Commercial‑Scale Combustor System," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1992.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Eighth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1992.

• Landau, M., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., " A Corona Based NOx Control System," AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 1992.

• McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., "Reaction Kinetics for Flue Gas Treatment of NOx," NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Non‑Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control, Cambridge, UK, 1992.

• Bain, R., Paisley, M. and Breault, R.W., "Design and Economics of Electricity Production from an Indirectly Heated Biomass Gasifier," National Biofuels Conference and Exhibition: Waste Wood Processing and Combustion for Energy, Boston, 1992.

• Chini, J., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., "The TECOLYTIC^TM Process ‑ An Advanced NOx Control System," IGRC, Orlando, 1992.

• Becker, F., McLarnon, C. and Breault, R.W., "Flue Gas Treatment of NOx with the TECOLYTIC^TM DeNOx Process: A Non‑Thermal Discharge Technique," First International EPRI/NSF Symposium on Advanced Oxidation, San Francisco, 1993.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Retrofit of District Boiler Houses for Improved Efficiency and Emissions Reduction," The Conference on Coal‑Fired Power Plant Upgrade 1993: Retrofit and Repowering, Warsaw, PL, 1993.

• Breault, R.W., "Integrated Emissions Control System for Small‑Scale CWS Furnaces," Ninth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Ninth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.

• Litka, A.F. and Breault, R.W., "Application of Coal‑Fired Combustors for Commercial Installations," Tenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.

• Breault, R.W., "Recovery and Utilization of Fine Clean Coal in a Thermal Dryer System," Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1994.

• Breault, R.W., "Modernization of Coal‑Fired Boiler Houses for Emission Reduction in Krakow," The Conference on Alternatives for Pollution Control From Coal Fired Low Emission Sources, Plzen, CZ, 1994.

• Breault, R.W., "Recovery and Utilization of Fine Clean Coal in a Thermal Dryer System," Tenth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1994.

• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Tenth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1994.
• Litka, A. F., Beittel, R., Darguzas, J. and Breault, R.W, “SO₂ Control in Low Emissions Boiler Systems with the COBRA Process”, EPRI Symposium, 1995.
• Chamberland, R. P., Tuson, G., McNeil, D. T., Wilsoncroft, T., Litka, A. F., McClaine, A. W. and Breault, R.W, “Batch/Cullet Preheating for Oxy-Fuel Furnaces”, 11th Glass Technology Seminar, 1996.
• Chamberland, R. P., Tuson, G., McNeil, D. T., Wilsoncroft, T., Litka, A. F., McClaine, A. W. and Breault, R.W, “An Integrated Batch/Cullet Preheater System for Oxy-Fuel Fired Glass Furnaces”, AFRC International Symposium, 1996.
• Lani, B. and Breault, R. W., “Combined High Velocity SO₂ and NO_x Scrubbing Process”, Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1997.
• Litka, A. F., McClaine, A. W., Hyre, M. and Breault, R.W, “The COBRA Process - Combined SOx and NOx Control in Low Emissions Boiler Systems”, Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1997.
• Lani, B. Babu, M. and Breault, R. W., “High Velocity Wet Scrubbing ofSO₂ and NO_x”, EPRI Symposium, 1997.
• Breault, R.W. , K. Shukla, F. E. Becker and A. McClaine, “Vista Combustor for Very Low NOx Emissions in Furnaces and Boilers”, AFRC 1997 International Symposium, Chicago, 1997

• Breault, R. W., K. Shukla, F. E. Becker and A. McClaine, J. Karan, “ Status Report on the Development of the Vista Low NOx Burner,”, IEA Meeting, Naples, 1997
• Lani, B., Bittenson S. and Breault, R. W., “ A Combined SO₂ and NO_x Scrubbing Process”, Proceedings of the 23^rd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1998.
• Breault, R. W., K, Shukla, F. E. Becker McClaine, and J. Karan, “Status Report on the Development of the Vista Low NOx Burner,”, IEA Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998.
• Breault, R.W., K, Shukla, F. E. Becker. W. McClaine, and J. Karan, “Status Report on the Development of the Vista Low NOx Burner”, AFRC 1998 International Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, 1998.
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and McClaine, A. W., “Hydrogen Transmission/Storage with a Metal Hydride/Organic Slurry”, Proceedings of the 1998 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Program Review, Alexandria, Virginia, 475
• Breault, R. W. and Rolfe, J., “Advanced Chemical Hydride-Based Hydrogen Generation/Storage System for Fuel Cell Vehicles”, Proceedings of the 1998 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Program Review Alexandria, Virginia, 763
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and McClaine, A. W., “Hydrogen for the Hydrogen Economy”, Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1999.
• Litka, A.F. and Breault, R.W, “Update on the performance Tests from the COBRA Process, A Combined SOx and NOx Removal System”, Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1999.
• Breault, R. W., McClaine, A. W., Rolfe, J. and Larson, C., “Sustainable Hydrogen for the Hydrogen Economy”, Symposium Proceedings, Volume 44, No. 4, 218^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, 1999
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and Larson, C., “Hydrogen for a PEM Fuel Cell Vehicle Using a Chemical Hydride Slurry”, Symposium Proceedings, Volume 44, No. 4, 218^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans,1999
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and McClaine, A. W., “Hydrogen Transmission/Storage with a Chemical Hydride/Organic Slurry”, 9^th Canadian Hydrogen conference, Vancouver, BC, 1999.
• McClaine, A., Becker, F., Litka, A., Breault, R. W., Shukla, K., Jayakaran, J., Poe, R. and Strupp, C., “VIStA Combustor for Very Low NOx Emissions in Furnaces and Boilers”, 1999 American Flame Research Committee, Fall International Symposium, San Francisco, 1999

• McClaine, A.W., Breault, R.W., Larsen, C., Konduri, R., Rolfe, J. Becker, F. and Miskolczy, G., “Hydrogen Transmission/Storage with a Metal Hydride-Organic Slurry and Advanced Chemical Hydride/Hydrogen for PEMFC Vehicles” Proceedings of the 2000 Hydrogen Program Annual Review, Office of Power Delivery Systems, Office of Power Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy.
• Breault, R.W and S. Clevenger “CO2 Control: Myths, Legends and a Few Facts”, Proceedings of the 26^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2001.
• Breault, R. W. and R. Reasbeck, “Regenerable CO2 Capture with MgO Sorbent” ACS Symposium, Vol. 43 No. 2, NY, NY, 2003
• Breault, R. W., Shadle, L.J., “Steady State Operational Characteristics of an N-Valve”, Proceedings of the 39^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2004
• Breault, R. W. and R. Reasbeck, “Regenerable CO2 Capture with MgO Sorbent” , Proceedings of the 39^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2004
• Breault, R. W., Shadle, L.J., “Time Series Analysis and the Propagation of Pressure Pulses in a Solids Circulation System”, Fall National AIChE Conf, Austin, TX, Nov, 2004
• Breault, R. W., “A review of gas-solids dispersion and mass transfer coefficient correlations in circulating fluidized beds”, Fall National AIChE Conf, Austin, TX, Nov, 2004
• Breault, R.W., Guenther, C., “Sensitivity of Gas-Solids Dispersion and Mass Transfer Coefficient in an Eulerian-Eulerian CFD Modeling”, Spring AIChE Meeting, Atlanta, April 2005
• Breault, R.W., Compston, R., “Mass Transfer in Circulating Fluidized Beds”, Spring AIChE Meeting, Atlanta, April 2005
• Breault, R.W., Guenther, C., “Sensitivity of Gas-Solids Dispersion and Mass Transfer Coefficient in an Eulerian-Eulerian CFD Model” Proceedings of the 30^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2005
• Breault, R.W., “Power Systems Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations” Proceedings of the 30^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2005
• Rogers, L. H., A. K. Bonsu, B. F. Gardner, J. D. Eiland, C. A. Powell, W. Breault, G. S. Booras, N. Salazar “Six Conceptual IGCC Plant Designs Using the Transport Gasifier”, PCC 2005
• Davis, B. M., R. Leonard, M. Nelson, G. Liu, P. Vimalchand, P. V. Smith, R.W. Breault, “Operation of the PSDF Transport Gasifier”, PCC 2005
• Schrecengost, R. A., B. P. Breen, S. MacAdam, R. W. Breault, “Evaluation of In-Situ Gasification of Coal/Biomass and Coal Slurries for Utilization as Fuel-Lean Reburn Fuels”, PCC 2005
• Swanson, M., E. Olson, R. Sharma, G. Dunham, R.W. Breault, “Mercury Removal from Warm Coal-Derived Syngas”, PCC 2005
• Jadhav, R. A., Howard S. Meyer, S. Winecki, R. W. Breault, “Evaluation of Nanocrystalline Sorbents for Mercury Removal from Fuel Gas”, PCC 2005
• Chin, P., G. W. Roberts, R.W. Breault, J. J. Spivey, “Reformulation of Coal-Derived Transportation Fuels: Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Structured Supports”, PCC 2005
• MacAdam, S., P. C. Martin, B. Higgins, B. Smith, R. W. Breault, “Pilot-Scale Optimization of In-Furnace Limestone and Trona Injection for Multi-Pollutant Control”, PCC 2005
• Guenther, C., Breault, R. W., and Zinn, A., “ Particle Velocity Measurement in a Circulating Fluidized Bed”, AIChE 2005 National Meeting, Cincinnati, OH
• Peter V. Smith; Nicola Salazar; Brandon M. Davis; Roxann Leonard; J. Matt Nelson; Ronald W. Breault, “KBR transport gasifier”, Gasification technologies 2005 conference, San Francisco, CA (United States), 9-12 Oct 2005; Other Information: IEACR LIB CD-ROM 540
• Breault, R. W., “Thermodynamic Analysis of Core-Annular Flow in a CFB”, AIChE 2006 Spring National Meeting, Orlando, FL
• Breault, R.W., Yue, P., Shadle, L.J. and Ludlow, J.C., “Particle Velocity Fluctuations of Cork Particles in the Riser of a CFB”, AIChE 2006 Spring National Meeting, Orlando, FL
• Breault, W.W., “Gasification: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – A Tutorial”, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Wallace, F., X. Guan, R. Leonard, M. Nelson, P Vimalchand, W. Peng, P. V. Smith, R. W. Breault, “Operation of the Transport Gasifier at the PSDF” Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Bonsu, A.K., J. D. Eiland, B. F. Gardner, C. A. Powell, and L. H. Rogers, G. S. Booras, R W. Breault, N. Salazar, “Impact of CO2 Capture on Transport Gasifier IGCC Power Plant”, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Breault, R.W., C. Guenther, “An Eulerian-Eulerian Model of a Transport Gasifier: A Detailed Look Inside the Reactor, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Breault, R.W., “Power System Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations: Update 2006”, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Guenther, C and Breault, R.W., “Cluster Dynamics in a Circulating Fluidized Bed”, 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Breault, R.W., “Power System Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations: Update 2007”, Proceedings of the 32^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2007
• Stiegel, G. J., Breault, R.W., and Ramezan, M., “Gasification: The Choice for Existing and Future Markets: An Overview of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gasification Program”, Proceedings of the 32^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2007
• Andrus, H., Chiu, J., Thibeault, P. and Breault, R. W., “ALSTOM’s Hybrid Combustion-Gasification Chemical Looping Technology Development” Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh (2008) ***BEST Paper AWARD***
• Richards, G., Breault, R. W., Liu, K, “Gasification Fundamentals Research – Planning for the Future”, Pittsburg Coal Conference, Pittsburgh (2009)
• Means, N. C., Weiland, N. T., Veser, G., Breault, R. W., and Guenther, C., “Reaction Kinetics and Product Distributions from Pyrolysis of Coal and Biomass Mixtures” (2011) PCC
• Breault, R. W., “Review of Gasification Technologies”, AIChE National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2011.
• Breault, R. W., Li, T. and Nicoletti, P., “ Mass Transfer Effects in a Gasification Riser” 2012 NETL Multiphase Flow Workshop, Morgantown, WV, (May 2012)
• Breault, R. W., Huckaby, E. D., “Parametric behavior of a riser CO2 adsorption process”, 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Breault, R. W., Huckaby, E. D., “Parametric behavior of a riser CO2 adsorption process: CFD simulation of solid-sorbent CO2 absorption in a riser reactor”, 37th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., “Coal Gasification: Challenges & Needs”, 37th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Kestering, D. A., Breault, R. W., de Aquino, T. F., Cesar, J., “CFD Simulation of Brazilian Coal Gasification on a Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor”, Pittsburgh, Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2012
• Breault, R. W. and Nicoletti, P., “Mass Transfer Effects in Low Temperature Gasification Simulations,” Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, (October 2012)
• Breault, R. W., Straub, D., Weber, J., Richards, G., Carpenter, S and Rommelmann, S., “Chemical Looping for Methane Conversion with Simultaneous CO2 Capture for Industrial Applications” 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Richards, G., Breault, R. W., Roe, S., Carpenter, S., “Chemical Looping for Industrial Carbon Management” 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Roe, S., Carpenter, S., “Industrial Carbon Management Initiative (ICMI): A New National Energy Technology Research Area”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., Straub, D., Weber, J., Richards, G., and Carpenter, S, “Chemical Looping for Methane Conversion with Simultaneous CO2 Capture for Industrial Applications”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., Liu, Y., Gallagher, M. J., Carpenter, S. P., Huckaby, E. D., “3D CFD Simulation of Chemical Looping Combustion with Interconnected Air and Fuel Reactors”, Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2012
• Breault, R. W., “Chemical Looping Combustion”, Invited talk, Washington University Seminar Series. St. Louis, April 4, 2013.
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Carpenter, S., “Update on NETL’s Industrial Carbon Management Initiative (ICMI)”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Keairns, D., Newby, R., Ostheim, S., Richards, G., and Carpenter, S, “Design Considerations for Natural Gas Chemical Looping Combustion ”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Liu, Y., Konan, N., Weber, J., Huckaby, E. D., and Gallagher, M., “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of a Dual Fluidized Bed Prototype for Chemical Looping Combustion ”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, FL, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Williams, M. and Carpenter, S, “Small Compact Integrated Chemical Looping Concept Reactors and Applications”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W and Monazam, E. R., “Fixed bed reduction of hematite under alternating reduction and oxidation cycles”, 39^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, FL, June, 2014
• Monazam, E. R., Breault, R. W. and Siriwardane, R., “Kinetics analysis of reduction of hematite oxygen carrier with CH4, CO, and H2 and oxidation with air for chemical looping combustion” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June, 2014
• Weber, J., Straub, D., Breault, R. W. and Richards, G. “Operating Experience of a Chemical Looping Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, FL, June, 2014
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Carpenter, S., “Update on NETL’s Industrial Carbon Management Initiative: A review of 2013 Activities” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, FL, June, 2014
• Richards, G. A., Straub, D., Weber, J., Breault, R. W., Chorpening, B., Siriwardane, R., “Chemical Looping Combustion – Research for Power and Process Heat Applications” American Flame Research Committee 2014 Industrial Combustion Symposium, September (2014) Houston, Texas.
• Ronald W. Breault, Esmail R. Monazam and Jarred Carpenter, Reduction and Oxidation Kinetics for Hematite Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane, 40th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems May 30-June 4, 2015, Clearwater, FL
• Ronald W. Breault and Justin M. Weber, The Effect of Thermal Treatment of Hematite Ore Ffor Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane, 40th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems May 30-June 4, 2015, Clearwater, FL
• Geo Richards, Doug Straub, Justin Weber, Ron Breault, Ranjani Siriwardane, Dale Keairns, Richard Newby, Steve Carpenter, Experience in chemical looping combustion with metal oxide carriers 14th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage April 28 – May 1, 2015 Pittsburgh, PA
• Konan, J. Weber, D. Huckaby, J. Fisher, Y. Liu, R. Breault, W. Rogers, Numerical study of gas-solid fluidized bed dynamics with distributor design, PCC 2015,
• Konan, J. Fisher, J. Weber, D. Huckaby, Y. Liu, R. Breault, W. Rogers, Unsteady CFD simulation of hematite reduction by methane in a bubbling fluidized bed, PCC 2015
• Bayham, S. C., Breault, R. W., Monazam, E. R., Applications of tribology to determine attrition by wear of particulate solids in CFB systems Fluidization XV , May 2016
• Weber, J. M., Straub, D., Bayham, S. C., and Breault, R. W., Operating Experience of a 50kWth Methane Chemical Looping Reactor. Fluidization XV May 2016
• Weber, J. M., Stehle, R. C., Breault, R. W., and De Wilde, J. Fundamentals of rotating fluidized beds and application to particle separation. Fluidization XV    May 2016
• Breault, R. W., Monazam, E. R., Shadle, L. J., Rowan, S., Macfarlan, L, H. The effect of riser end geometry on gas-solid hydrodynamics in a CFB riser operating above fast fluidization regimes. Fluidization XV    May 2016
• Steven Rowan; Ronald W. Breault; Narasimhan Soundarrajan; Jingsi Yang; Samuel Bayham. “Hydrodynamic Analysis of Spouting Characteristics in a Slot-Rectangular Spouted Bed Reactor”, Paper 140c, presented at 2019 AIChE meeting
• Ronald W. Breault, Steve Rowan, Justin Weber, and Lawrence J. Shadle, Dilute Phase Riser Dynamics – A Comparison of Scale, AIChE Fall National Meeting, Orlando Nov 2019
• Jingsi Yang, Ronald W. Breault, Justin M. Weber, Steven L. Rowan. Study of hydrodynamic behavior in a shallow rectangular spouted bed with ascending gas flow using bed pressure signals and image analysis. AIChE Fall National Meeting, Orlando Nov 2019
• Steven L. Rowan, Ronald W. Breault, Jingsi Yang, and Samuel Bayham. Analysis of Spouting Behavior in a Cold Flow Slot-Rectangular Spouted Bed. AIChE Fall National Meeting, Orlando Nov 2019
• Breault, R. W. and Bayham, S., “Reduction of Ultrafine Hematite for a Spouting Bed Chemical Looping Process “, 45th Clean Energy Conference, Clearwater, FL
• VanOsdol, J. G., Rowan, S. L., Breault, R. W., “Calculating the Effects of Solids Input and Removal as a Temperature Control in the Advanced Scale Up Reactor Experiment (ASURE) Facility at NETL Using Aspen”, Presented at the 10th Thermal & Fluids Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C. March 9-14, 2025. DOI: 1615/TFEC2025.mes.056189
• Rowan, S., Breault, R., and Weber, J. Fluidization Regime Mapping Analysis for 200 μm Glass Beads in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser. Presented at 2024 Clearwater Clean Energy Conference, Clearwater, FL., June 16-19, 2024.
• Rowan, S., and Breault, R. The Advanced Scale Up Reactor Experiment (ASURE) Facility: A Testbed for Advancing the Art of Biomass and Waste Co-Gasification Systems. Presented at 2024 Clearwater Clean Energy Conference, Clearwater, FL., June 16-19, 2024.
• Rowan, S., Breault, R., and Weber, J. Analysis of Solids Volume Fraction and Dimensionless Regime Mapping in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser. Presented 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA., October 27 – November 1, 2024.
• Rowan, S., and Breault, R. The Advanced Scale Up Reactor Experiment (ASURE) Facility: A Testbed for Demonstration of Advances in Biomass and Waste Co-Gasification Systems. Presented 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA., October 27 – November 1, 2024.
• Rowan, S., and Breault, R. Dimensionless Regime Mapping and Chaos Analysis of Solids Volume Fraction Data in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Riser. Presented at the 10th Thermal & Fluids Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C. March 9-14, 2025.

Oral Presentations  (Bold – made presentation)

• Breault, R.W., "The Economic and Technical Feasibility of a Solar‑Coal Gasification System, Master of Science Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 1982.
• Breault, R.W. and Mathur, V.K., "Two Phase Flow in a Loop Fluidized Bed," Multi‑Phase Flow and Heat Transfer III, Part B: Applications, edited by T.N. Veziroglu and A.E. Bergles, Miami, 1984.
• Breault, R.W., "Hydrodynamic Characterization and Coal Combustion Modeling of a High Velocity Fluidized Bed," Ph.D. dissertation, The University of New Hampshire, 1985.
• Breault, R.W., "Sulfur Removal Modeling in a Circulating Fluidized Bed: The Multisolids Fluidized Bed Combustor," 1987 AIChE Presented at the National Meeting, Houston, TX, March 1987.
• Breault, R.W., "Theoretical Modeling of the Multisolids Fluidized Bed Combustor: Hydrodynamics, Combustion, and Desulfurization," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, Boston, MA, May 1987.
• Breault, R.W., "The Effect of Fuel Switching on Carbon Conversion Efficiency in Circulating Fluidized Bed Units," JPGC, Philadelphia, 1988.
• Breault, R.W., Reicker, E. L., Mongeon, R.K., and Hall, A.W., "An Advanced Concept Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor Applicable to the Industrial Market," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.
• Farag, I.H., Breault, R.W., Mongeon, R.K., and Hall, A.W., " Multi‑Solids Fluidized Bed (MSFB) Combustion Modeling and Analysis," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.
• Ake, T.R., Mongeon, R.K., Breault, R.W., and Hall, A.W., "The Development and Application of Scaling Laws for a Circulation Fluidized Bed Package Boiler," 1989 International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, San Francisco, CA, 1989.
• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "CWS Handling Experience on Small Scale Combustors," Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Coal and Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1990.
• Sayer, A.N. and Breault, R.W., "Storage, Transport and Handling of CWF for Small‑Scale Combustors," Sixth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1990.
• Grimanis, M.P., Jha, M.C., Smitt, F, and Breault, R.W., "Storage Considerations for Beneficiated Coal Water Slurry Fuels," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.
• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "An Emission Control System for Small Scale Combustion Systems," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.
• Grimanis, M.P., Zografos, A. I. and Breault, R.W., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Storage, Handling and Atomization," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Seventh Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "An Advanced CWS‑Fired Commercial‑Scale Combustor System," Eighth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.
• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "A Small Scale Combustor Emission Control System," Eighth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1991.
• Chini, J., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., " An Advanced Corona Discharge NOx Control System," AIChE Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1992.
• Breault, R.W. and Chigier, N., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Atomization of Coal‑Water Slurry Fuels," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.
• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "An Emission Control System for Small Scale Combustion Systems," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.
• Grimanis, M.P. and Breault, R.W., "Slurry Handling Requirements in Small scale Applications," Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1991.
• Nieh, S., Litka, T.F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of Small‑Scale Coal Combustion Systems using Vortex Technology," Energy and Environment: Transitions in Eastern Europe Conference, Prague, CZ, 1992.
• Grimanis, M.P. and Breault, R.W., "Effect of Coal Type and Beneficiation Process on Storage and Handling," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1992.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "An Advanced CWS‑Fired Commercial‑Scale Combustor System," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1992.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Eighth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1992.
• Landau, M., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., " A Corona Based NOx Control System," AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 1992.
• McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., "Reaction Kinetics for Flue Gas Treatment of NOx," NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Non‑Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control, Cambridge, UK, 1992.
• Chini, J., McLarnon, C., Mathur, V.K. and Breault, R.W., "The TECOLYTIC^TM Process ‑ An Advanced NOx Control System," IGRC, Orlando, 1992.
• Balsavich, J.C. and Breault, R.W., "Development of an Integrated Emissions Control System for Residential CWS Furnaces," Sixth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1990.
• Becker, F., McLarnon, C. and Breault, R.W., "Flue Gas Treatment of NOx with the TECOLYTIC^TM DeNOx Process: A Non‑Thermal Discharge Technique," First International EPRI/NSF Symposium on Advanced Oxidation, San Francisco, 1993.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Retrofit of District Boiler Houses for Improved Efficiency and Emissions Reduction," The Conference on Coal‑Fired Power Plant Upgrade 1993: Retrofit and Repowering, Warsaw, PL, 1993.
• Breault, R.W., "Integrated Emissions Control System for Small‑Scale CWS Furnaces," Ninth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Ninth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.
• Litka, A.F. and Breault, R.W., "Application of Coal‑Fired Combustors for Commercial Installations," Tenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, 1993.
• Breault, R.W., "Recovery and Utilization of Fine Clean Coal in a Thermal Dryer System," Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1994.
• Breault, R.W., "Modernization of Coal‑Fired Boiler Houses for Emission Reduction in Krakow," The Conference on Alternatives for Pollution Control From Coal Fired Low Emission Sources, Plzen, CZ, 1994.
• Breault, R.W., "Recovery and Utilization of Fine Clean Coal in a Thermal Dryer System," Tenth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1994.
• Litka, A. F. and Breault, R.W., "Development of a Coal‑Water Slurry Fired Commercial‑Scale Space Heating System," Tenth Annual Coal Preparation, Utilization, and Environmental Control Contractor's Conference, Pittsburgh, 1994.
• Litka, A. F., Beittel, R., Darguzas, J. and Breault, R.W, “SO₂ Control in Low Emissions Boiler Systems with the COBRA Process”, EPRI Symposium, 1995.
• Lani, B. and Breault, R. W., “Combined High Velocity SO₂ and NO_x Scrubbing Process”, Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1997.
• Litka, A. F., McClaine, A. W., Hyre, M. and Breault, R.W, “The COBRA Process - Combined SOx and NOx Control in Low Emissions Boiler Systems”, Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1997.
• Lani, B. Babu, M. and Breault, R. W., “High Velocity Wet Scrubbing ofSO₂ and NO_x”, EPRI Symposium, 1997.
• Lani, B., Bittenson S. and Breault, R. W., “ A Combined SO₂ and NO_x Scrubbing Process”, Proceedings of the 23^rd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1998.
• Breault, R. W., K, Shukla, F. E. Becker McClaine, and J. Karan, “Status Report on the Development of the Vista Low NOx Burner,”, IEA Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998.
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and McClaine, A. W., “Hydrogen for the Hydrogen Economy”, Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1999.
• Litka, A.F. and Breault, R.W, “Update on the performance Tests from the COBRA Process, A Combined SOx and NOx Removal System”, Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 1999.
• Breault, R. W., McClaine, A. W., Rolfe, J. and Larson, C., “Sustainable Hydrogen for the Hydrogen Economy”, Symposium Proceedings, Volume 44, No. 4, 218^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, 1999
• Breault, R. W., Rolfe, J. and Larson, C., “Hydrogen for a PEM Fuel Cell Vehicle Using a Chemical Hydride Slurry”, Symposium Proceedings, Volume 44, No. 4, 218^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans,1999
• McClaine, A.W., Breault, R.W., Larsen, C., Konduri, R., Rolfe, J. Becker, F. and Miskolczy, G., “Hydrogen Transmission/Storage with a Metal Hydride-Organic Slurry and Advanced Chemical Hydride/Hydrogen for PEMFC Vehicles” Proceedings of the 2000 Hydrogen Program Annual Review, Office of Power Delivery Systems, Office of Power Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy.
• Breault, R.W and S. Clevenger “CO2 Control: Myths, Legends and a Few Facts”, Proceedings of the 26^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2001.
• Breault, R. W. and R. Reasbeck, “Regenerable CO2 Capture with MgO Sorbent” ACS Symposium, Vol. 43 No. 2, NY, NY, 2003
• Breault W. and Malik, M., “Kinetic data for CO2 sequestration in geological deposits”, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, 2003
• Breault, R. W., Shadle, L.J., “Steady State Operational Characteristics of an N-Valve”, Proceedings of the 39^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2004
• Breault, R. W. and R. Reasbeck, “Regenerable CO2 Capture with MgO Sorbent” , Proceedings of the 39^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2004
• Breault, R. W., Shadle, L.J., “Time Series Analysis and the Propagation of Pressure Pulses in a Solids Circulation System”, Fall National AIChE Conf, Austin, TX, Nov, 2004
• Breault, R. W., “A review of gas-solids dispersion and mass transfer coefficient correlations in circulating fluidized beds”, Fall National AIChE Conf, Austin, TX, Nov, 2004
• Breault, R.W., Guenther, C., “Sensitivity of Gas-Solids Dispersion and Mass Transfer Coefficient in an Eulerian-Eulerian CFD Modeling”, Spring AIChE Meeting, Atlanta, April 2005
• Breault, R.W., Compston, R., “Mass Transfer in Circulating Fluidized Beds”, Spring AIChE Meeting, Atlanta, April 2005
• Breault, R.W., Guenther, C., “Sensitivity of Gas-Solids Dispersion and Mass Transfer Coefficient in an Eulerian-Eulerian CFD Model” Proceedings of the 30^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2005
• Breault, R.W., “Power Systems Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations” Proceedings of the 30^th International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2005
• Breault, R. W., “Thermodynamic Analysis of Core-Annular Flow in a CFB”, AIChE 2006 Spring National Meeting, Orlando, FL
• Breault, R.W., Yue, P., Shadle, L.J. and Ludlow, J.C., “Particle Velocity Fluctuations of Cork Particles in the Riser of a CFB”, AIChE 2006 Spring National Meeting, Orlando, FL
• Breault, W.W., “Gasification: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – A Tutorial”, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Wallace, F., X. Guan, R. Leonard, M. Nelson, P Vimalchand, W. Peng, P. V. Smith, R. W. Breault, “Operation of the Transport Gasifier at the PSDF” Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Breault, R.W., C. Guenther, “An Eulerian-Eulerian Model of a Transport Gasifier: A Detailed Look Inside the Reactor, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Breault, R.W., “Power System Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations: Update 2006”, Proceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2006
• Breault, R.W., “Power System Development Facility Transport Gasifier Operations: Update 2007”, Proceedings of the 32^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2007
• Stiegel, G. J., Breault, R.W., and Ramezan, M., “Gasification: The Choice for Existing and Future Markets: An Overview of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gasification Program”, Proceedings of the 32^nd International Conference on Coal & Slurry Technologies, Clearwater, FL, 2007
• Breault, R.W., “Experience and Growth of Biomass and Waste Gasification” Energy from Biomass and Waste Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September, 2007
• Breault, R.W., “Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)”, Israeli Delegation, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2007
• Breault, R.W., “National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) Advanced Gasification Program”, Turkish-American Clean Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2008
• Breault, R.W., “National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL’s) FBC Update”, Turkish-American Clean Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2008
• Breault, R.W., “IGCC Status in the U.S.”’ Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, February 2008
• Richards, G., Breault, R. W., Liu, K, “Gasification Fundamentals Research – Planning for the Future”, Pittsburg Coal Conference, Pittsburgh (2009)
• Breault, R. W., “Review of Gasification Technologies”, AIChE National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2011.
• Breault, R. W., Huckaby, E. D., “Parametric behavior of a riser CO₂ adsorption process”, 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Breault, R. W., Huckaby, E. D., “Parametric behavior of a riser CO₂ adsorption process: CFD simulation of solid-sorbent CO₂ absorption in a riser reactor”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., “Coal Gasification: Challenges & Needs”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W. and Nicoletti, P., “Mass Transfer Effects in Low Temperature Gasification Simulations,” Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, (October 2012)
• Breault, R. W., Straub, D., Weber, J., Richards, G., Carpenter, S and Rommelmann, S., “Chemical Looping for Methane Conversion with Simultaneous CO2 Capture for Industrial Applications” 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Richards, G., Breault, R. W., Roe, S., Carpenter, S., “Chemical Looping for Industrial Carbon Management” 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, (2012)
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Roe, S., Carpenter, S., “Industrial Carbon Management Initiative (ICMI): A New National Energy Technology Research Area”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., Straub, D., Weber, J., Richards, G., and Carpenter, S, “Chemical Looping for Methane Conversion with Simultaneous CO2 Capture for Industrial Applications”, 37^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 3 to 7, 2012
• Breault, R. W., Liu, Y., Gallagher, M. J., Carpenter, S. P., Huckaby, E. D., “3D CFD Simulation of Chemical Looping Combustion with Interconnected Air and Fuel Reactors”, Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2012
• Breault, R. W., “Chemical Looping Combustion”, Invited talk, Washington University Seminar Series. St. Louis, April 4, 2013.
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Carpenter, S., “Update on NETL’s Industrial Carbon Management Initiative (ICMI)”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Keairns, D., Newby, R., Ostheim, S., Richards, G., and Carpenter, S, “Design Considerations for Natural Gas Chemical Looping Combustion ”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Liu, Y., Konan, N., Weber, J., Huckaby, E. D., and Gallagher, M., “Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of a Dual Fluidized Bed Prototype for Chemical Looping Combustion ”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Williams, M. and Carpenter, S, “Small Compact Integrated Chemical Looping Concept Reactors and Applications”, 38^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June 2 to 6, 2013
• Breault, R. W and Monazam, E. R., “Fixed bed reduction of hematite under alternating reduction and oxidation cycles”, 39^th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June, 2014
• Monazam, E. R., Breault,R. W. and Siriwardane, R., “Kinetics analysis of reduction of hematite oxygen carrier with CH4, CO, and H2 and oxidation with air for chemical looping combustion” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June, 2014
• Weber, J., Straub, D., Breault,R. W. and Richards, G. “Operating Experience of a Chemical Looping Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June, 2014
• Breault, R. W., Richards, G., Carpenter, S., “Update on NETL’s Industrial Carbon Management Initiative: A review of 2013 Activities” 39th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal, Clearwater, Fl, June, 2014
• Ronald W. Breault, Esmail R. Monazam and Jarred Carpenter, Reduction and Oxidation Kinetics for Hematite Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane, 40th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems May 30-June 4, 2015, Clearwater, FL
• Ronald W. Breault and Justin M. Weber, The Effect of Thermal Treatment of Hematite Ore Ffor Chemical Looping Combustion of Methane, 40th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems May 30-June 4, 2015, Clearwater, FL
• Ronald Breault, Sam, Essi , AICHE Development of First Principles Attrition Model to Determine Solid Makeup Cost of Novel CFB Technologies at NETL, April 2016, Huston, TX
• Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Doug Straub and Sam Bayham CFD modeling of the fuel reactor in NETL’s 50 kw chemical looping facility 41st International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems Jun 5-9, 2016, Clearwater, FL
• Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Sam Bayham and Michael Bobek Effect of Steam on Hematite Reduction in a Cyclic Fluidized Bed Chemical Looping System 41st International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems Jun 5-9, 2016, Clearwater, FL
• Samuel Bayham, Justin Weber, Doug Straub, Ronald Breault, Performance Of A Raw Hematite And A Manufactured Copper-Iron Oxygen Carrier in a 50-KW Natural Gas Chemical Looping System, 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, May 2017
• Steven L. Rowan1, Ronald W. Breault, David A. Berry, Nicholas Hillen, Processing Cohesive Fine Particles in a Spouted Bed Via Mixing With Spoutable Media, 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, May 2017
• Michael Bobek, Steven Rowan, Ronald W. Breault, Justin Weber, Esmail Monazam, Fluidized Bed Process Intensification Via High-G Flows, 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, May 2017
• Ronald Breault, Samuel Bayham, Nathan Galinsky, Esmail Monazam, Attrition Prediction For New Materials an Circulating Fluidized Systems, 12th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology, May 2017
• Nicholas Hillen, Ronald Breault, Steve Rowan, Justin Weber, "Steady state elutriation of fines from binary particle mixtures in bubbling fluidized cold flow model", 2017 Fall National AIChE Meeting, Minniappolis MN
• Michael Bobek, Steve Rowan, Nicholas Hillen, Jingsi Yang, Justin Weber, Ronald W. Breault, “Binary Solid Mixture Separation in a Cold Flow Spouted Bed for Chemical Looping Applications “, World Congress of Particulate Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2018.
• Nicholas L. Hillen, Steven L. Rowan, Ronald W. Breault, Justin M. Weber, Mapping and optimization of steady state elutriation of fines from binary particle mixtures in bubbling fluidized cold flow model”, World Congress of Particulate Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2018.
• Ronald W. Breault, Nick Hillen, Steve Rowan and Justin Weber, “Riser Dynamics – A Comparison of Scale”, World Congress of Particulate Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2018. Invited Talk
• Ronald W. Breault, “Experimental measurements of meso-scale phenomena leading to an understanding of interphase heat and mass transfer in CFB risers” EMMS Workshop, World Congress of Particulate Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2018. Invited Talk.
• Ronald W. Breault, "Technologies on the Horizon" CIBO - Implementing Sustainability, Arlington, VA, September 10-11, 2019
• Ronald W. Breault, Steve Rowan, Justin Weber, and Jingsi Yang, "Effects of Scale on CFB Riser Dynamics", Presented at the Clearwater Clean Energy Conference, June 17th-21st, 2019.

Reports

• Balsavich, J.C. ; Breault, R.W., “Integrated emissions control system for residential CWS furnace”, Annual status report number 1, 20 September 1989--30 September 1990, OSTI ID: 10184846; Legacy ID: DE95000375
• Grimanis, M.P. ; Breault, R.W., “Storage, transportation, and atomization of CWF for residential applications”, 1991, OSTI ID: 6033528; Legacy ID: DE92002131
• Breault, R.W. ; McLarnon, C., “Integrated emissions control system for residential CWS furnace.”, Final report, September 20, 1989--March 20, 1993”, OSTI ID: 10169951; Legacy ID: DE93018714
• Litka, A. ; Breault, R., “Development and testing of a commercial scale coal-fired combustion system -- Phase 3”, Final technical progress report, September 26, 1990--August 31, 1994, OSTI ID: 257348; Legacy ID: DE96012560
• McClaine, A.W. ; Breault, R.W., “Integration of thickener underflow into thermal dryer circuit”, Final report, 1998, OSTI ID: 589905; Legacy ID: DE98050581