Zane has over twenty years of experience in various management and engineering roles including mechanical design, hydraulic system design, dynamic system modeling and controls, active heave compensation, process design, and project management. His current duties include quotation preparation and design of gas treating systems including amine plants, membrane plants, catalytic oxygen removal systems, TEG dehydration plants, mole sieve dehydration plants, helium purification PSA (pressure swing adsorption), project management, and engineering supervision. Currently, Zane is focusing on business management and utilizing existing technologies to reduce emissions in power generation and oil & gas production. Zane has published and presented many papers on natural gas treating, process heating, and emission elimination. He has received two patents on natural gas treating (U.S. Patents 7,695,702 & 7,645,433).
Prior to his entrance into the natural gas treating and process heating business, Zane developed several systems used in the offshore industry. The projects included ROV launch and recovery systems, marine cranes and winches, active heave compensation systems for ROV operations, and active heave compensation for wireline systems for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
During his academic career, Zane received the Kozik-Harvey Fellowship and the Grant in Areas of National Need – Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Fellowship. His also received the Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Assistant Teaching Award. His M.S. thesis was titled “Maximizing Tolerable Disturbances in a Coupled Structural System Using a QFT-like Method.” He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in Dynamic Systems and Controls in 2000.
