Dr. Alex Hobbs, P.E., is currently the Associate Director for Renewable Technologies at the Solar Center, an outreach component of NC State University's College of Engineering. He has more than 35 years of engineering experience in the areas of electric power generation and delivery, water and wastewater treatment, as well as production agriculture and food processing. He has worked as a design/startup engineer and as project manager on internal combustion turbine generator, coal and oil fired boiler, and light water nuclear plant projects. As an in-house technology consultant and researcher for a major southeastern utility, Dr. Hobbs led applied research and development programs to evaluate advanced power production techniques, development and combustion of biomass based renewable fuel resources, new environmental assessment and remediation technologies and innovative load management equipment and strategies.
Concurrent with the electric utility work, Dr. Hobbs has maintained a consulting engineering practice in the Raleigh area for the past 25 years. These activities have included animal waste treatment and post harvest crop handling system design, sanitation and microbiological control for food manufacturers using ozone, food processor and industrial waste treatment, and more recently evaluation of in-plant electrical generation and heat utilization. In cooperation with NC State Extension personnel, he also helped design, build and operate a recirculating aquaculture facility for sustainable commercial production of fish, demonstrating new opportunities for NC farmers.
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