Larry Baxter

Larry Baxter (BS, PhD, Chemical Engineering) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU) and has been involved in sustainable energy research for over 25 years with particular emphasis on biomass and fossil fuel thermal processing (combustion, gasification, etc.) and carbon capture. He joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at BYU in late 2000, having worked 14 years previously at Sandia National Laboratories' Combustion Research Facility. Since arriving at BYU, Larry has supervised hundreds of undergraduate and tens of graduate research projects on carbon capture, biomass, and coal processing. Four years ago, Prof. Baxter co-founded Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES, www.sustainablees.com), which has since grown to employ 11 full-time and 7 part-time engineers and is focused on commercialization of a disruptive carbon capture technology process. The principal investigator of more than $37M in funding at BYU and SES, Prof. Baxter focuses on finding practical and economic solutions to regional and global energy and environmental issues.