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process11 and created cost estimates relating to the waste
treatment project.
After graduating from MIT, petitioner worked for the
Scientific Design Corp. (SDC), a subsidiary of The Halcon SD
Group, Inc. (Halcon), for 22 years. Petitioner worked as a
research engineer while at SDC, and his duties included
performing experimental work, evaluating the experimental work,
using the evaluations for preliminary design plans, and
determining preliminary investment costs and operation costs.
When valuing equipment for SDC, petitioner initially sketched out
a general outline of what equipment he thought would be required
for a project and its installation costs, guessing at the cost.
If the project appeared viable, petitioner used cost estimators
whose job it was to develop a more detailed cost picture and to
refine the cost estimates. During 1982, petitioner was SDC’s
president of research and development.
While at SDC, petitioner participated in a joint venture
with Arco Chemical Co. (Arco), called Opstrand Corp. (Opstrand).
The venture was based on petitioner’s first project at SDC and
11Petitioner described the “polyphenol process” as follows:
Polyphenols were used as coolants for nuclear reactors,
and as these coolants pass through the reactors, they
are exposed to quite high temperatures and degrade to a
certain extent unless they form higher polymers, which
what we did with them is really to hydrogenate so they
could basically break them down again into lower
molecular polyphenols which could be reused in the
process.
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