Paul Simon Anderson, Ph.D.

University teaching of Geography and Mapping:  1972 – 2003   (Retired)

Biomass energy consulting:  2001 – Present

Specialist in small gasification cookstoves and furnaces using chip-type biomass.

Residence:  227 South Orr Drive, Normal, IL  61761         Tel:   (309) 452-7072            E-mail:  psanders@ilstu.edu

Born September 1943;  Married;  Four Children;  6 ft.;  175 lbs.         Website home page:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders

 

EDUCATION:

B.A. 1965     Augustana College (IL),     Biology.                                

M.A. 1972    Univ. of California, Berkeley,     Geography.

Graduate Diploma 1971 CIAF- ITC Bogotá, Colombia,     Photointerpretation for geology and geomorphology.

Ph.D. 1979   Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia,     Demography (migration studies).


EMPLOYMENT:

1965 - 66       Asst. supervisor, day-care center, Lima, Peru.                      

1967 - 69       U.S. Army, Vietnam 9/67 - 9/68.

1972 - 74       Teaching Fellow, Geography, Univ. of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

1974 - 77       Lecturer, Applied Geography, Canberra College of Advanced Education, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia. 

1978 - 82       Asst. Prof., Geography, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil. 

1982 - 2003   Asst./Assoc. Prof., Geography, Illinois State University (ISU), Normal, Illinois, USA. 

2001 -- Independent consultant and product developer for biomass energy from gasification.

2006 -- Co-Founder of Chip Energy, Vice-President for R&D, Goodfield, Illinois

 

QUALIFICATIONS AND GRANTS:

Foreign Languages:  Professional level fluency in Portuguese, and very good command of Spanish.

International residence and employment for 20 years on five continents.

Grants Received:  Total = approx. $200,000.

 

 

SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY:

3 thesis; 4 books; 59 other publications and reviews; 110 academic presentations.

                Full academic CV is at:  http://lilt.ilstu.edu/psanders


ACTIVITIES AS A BIOMASS ENERGY CONSULTANT:

Creator and developer of clean-burning cookstoves:  (some with co-workers Dr.Thomas B. Reed or Paul W. Wever.)

                Juntos-B stove.       A forced-air T-LUD gasifier.  (T-LUD = Top-Lit UpDraft)

                Champion stove.    A natural-draft T-LUD gasifier.  Winner of the Stove Camp 2005 “Cat Pee” award.

                Lily stove.              An ethanol/methanol burner of extremely low cost.

                Macula stove and heater.                  A forced-air continuous feed updraft gasifier.

                Chip Energy Model 1024 furnace.    An updraft gasifier for residential heating.

Active with the key Internet Listservs for stoves and gasification, plus participation in numerous conferences.

                See http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson for several items, including a key presentation with co-author Thomas B. Reed:  Biomass Gasification:  Clean Residential Stoves, Commercial Power Generation, and Global Impacts.”  Presented at the LAMNET Project International Workshop on “Bioenergy for a Sustainable Development,” 8-10 Nov 2004, Viña del Mar, Chile.