User:Fredrosse

2024 ROSSE BIO

Fred Rosse is a mechanical consulting engineer in the electric power industry, with over 40 years experience in prime movers and power generation. Technical capabilities in plant mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems is the primary focus of Fred's career. Fred has built small diesel and coal fired distributed generation power plants, the subject of an ASME 2004 Joint Power Generation Conference Paper, Number 40192. Fred has written numerous computer programs dealing with heat transfer, fluid flow, thermal cycle analysis.

Fred is a member of the ASME Working Group for Performance Testing Heat Exchangers, and a member of the Pennsylvania State University Steam Condenser Advisory Group. He has taught the Modern Power Plant Engineering Course for the Engineers Club of Philadelphia, and presently teaches similar courses.

At present, Fred has a website, the Beckersville Steam Engineering Co. and since retiring from a large Architect-Engineer firm in 2018, he has worked as an independent engineering consultant with the New York Power Authority and the New York Department of Environmental Protection. At present (as of Feb 2024), Fred is a paid consultant for FUJI Electric of America (building a geothermal Steam Power Plant in California), plus ARC-100 Power Plant (https://www.arc-cleantech.com, designing a new liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor under USDOE contracts). In addition Fred performs volunteer consulting for a few museums and mill restoration projects.

Since segments of the power industry became privatized in the 1990s, technical information has become much less widely available through available references. Hence many technical trends and industry facts are difficult to adequately reference. Where I have firm knowledge about technical subjects, my inputs to Wikipedia are truthful and unbiased. If anyone wishes to edit my inputs, please feel free to first call me for discussion at (609) 454-7617.