About

Colin Schaverien (founder and CEO), and his teams’ experience is in catalysis, fluidised catalytic cracking, and producing 1st generation and advanced biofuels. Colin Schaverien led Shell’s Biorefining programme (2005 – 2014). The processing and co-processing of various bio-feedstocks in standard refinery units from lab through pilot to demo scales was successfully investigated.

Specific experience includes:-

  • Technology maturation through Discover, Develop, Demonstrate phases
  • Technology de-risking and risk assessment
  • R & D planning and budgeting
  • Process development and scale up considerations
  • Product quality aspects
  • IP strategy, third party IP assessment and Opposition proceedings
  • Economics and sustainable development
  • Third party technology assessments and due diligence

Key skills and strengths

  • Highly motivated, pragmatic, scientifically critical leader with a focus on results delivery.
  • Interface between the technology and commercial teams, translating commercial ambitions into rational technical goals and milestones.
  • Holder of 50 technical publications and (co)inventor of > 40 patents and patent application families. 

Hydroprocessing/hydrotreating

  • Co-processing of vegetable oils or upgraded pyrolysis oils under typical AGO HDS conditions gave 10 ppm S ULSD
  • Hydrotreating of 100 % vegetable oils.

Bio-FCC

  • Co-processing of Used Cooking Oils or animal fats with VGO led to a demo trial in a fully integrated commercial FCC unit.
  • Upgraded pyrolysis oil and size-reduced wood chips were successfully co-processed in a FCC riser pilot plant. CC

Selected publications

  • Industrial Biorenewables: A Practical Viewpoint Biorenewables at Shell: Biofuels Wiley, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-118-84372-7, Chapter 23
  • Hydrodeoxygenation of pyrolysis oil fractions: process understanding and quality assessment through co-processing in refinery units. F. de Miguel Mercader, M. J. Groeneveld, S. R. A. Kersten, C. Geantet, G. Toussaint, N. W. J. Way, C. J. Schaverien and J. A. Hogendoorn Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 985-997.
  • Production of advanced biofuels: Co-processing of upgraded pyrolysis oil in standard refinery units. F. de Miguel Mercader, M.J. Groeneveld, S.R.A. Kersten, N.W.J. Way, C.J. Schaverien and J.A. Hogendoorn. Journal of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2010, 96, 57 – 66.
  • Coupling Fatty Acids by Ketonic Decarboxylation Using Solid Catalysts for the Direct Production of Diesel, Lubricants, and Chemicals ChemSusChem 2008, 1, 739 – 741
  • Cracking of a rapeseed vegetable oil under realistic FCC conditions. X. Dupain, D. J. Costa, C. J. Schaverien, M. Makkee* and J. A. Moulijn, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2007, 72, 44 – 61.
  • Production of Clean Transportation fuels and lower olefins from Fischer-Tropsch waxes under fluid catalytic cracking conditions; the potential of highly paraffinic feedstocks for FCC.  X. Dupain, R. A. Krul, C. J. Schaverien, M. Makkee and J. A. Moulijn, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental   2006, 63, 277 – 295
  • Will the Carbon Age (Oil and Gas) Terminate Before Depletion of Reserves? A Research Perspective on a More Sustainable Production of Energy. M. J. Groeneveld, H. Geerlings, G. J. Kramer, C. Schaverien, and J. Smits 17th World Petroleum Congress Rio de Janeiro, 1-5 September 2002.
  • Ethylene bis(2-indenyl) Zirconocenes: A New Class of Diastereomeric Metallocenes for the (Co)Polymerization of alpha-Olefins. C. J. Schaverien*, R. Ernst, P. Schut and T. Dall’Occo, Organometallics 2001, 20, 3436.
  • C-H Bonds are not Elongated by Coordination to Lanthanide Metals: Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction Structures of (C5Me5)Y(OC6H3tBu2)CH(SiMe3)2 at 20 K and (C5Me5)La{CH(SiMe3)2}2 at 15 K.  W. T. Klooster, L. Brammer*, C. J. Schaverien* and P. H. M. Budzelaar J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 1381.
  • A New Class Of Chiral Bridged Metallocene: Synthesis, Structure and Olefin (Co)polymerization Behaviour of rac- and meso-1,2-CH2CH2{4-(7-Me-indenyl)}2ZrCl2. C. J. Schaverien*, R. Ernst, P. Schut, W. M. Skiff, L. Resconi*, E. Barbassa, D. Balboni, Y. A. Dubitsky, A. G. Orpen, P. Mercandelli, M. Moret, and A. Sironi J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 9945
  • Polymerization of α-Olefins and Butadiene, and Catalytic Cyclotrimerization of 1-Alkynes by a New Class of Group IV Catalysts. Control of Molecular Weight and Polymer Microstructure via Ligand Tuning in Sterically Hindered Chelating Phenoxide Titanium and Zirconium Species. A. J. van der Linden, C. J. Schaverien*, N. Meijboom, C. Ganter and A. G. Orpen J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 3008
  • Rhodium Alkoxide Complexes. Formation of an Unusually Strong Intermolecular Hydrogen Bond in Rh(PMe3)3Otolyl.(HOtolyl). S. E. Kegley, C. J. Schaverien, J. H. Freudenburger, R. G. Bergman, S. P. Nolan and C. H. Hoff J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 6563.
  • A Well Characterised Highly Active, Lewis-Acid Free, Olefin Metathesis Catalyst. C. J. Schaverien, J. C. Dewan and R. R. Schrock  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1986, 108, 2771.
  • Alkene Fragmentation at a Dimetal Centre: X-Ray Crystal Structure and Protonation of the Bridged Carbene Complex Rh2(μ-CO){μ-CHCMe2CHCO}(C5Me5)2. C. J. Schaverien, M. Green. A. G. Orpen and I. D. Williams; J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1982, 912

Patents

1. WO 2016/107823. Process for production of aromatics via pyrolysis of lignin-comprising material, priority 29 December 2014
2. US 9248444 B2. Process for regenerating a coked catalytic cracking catalyst, priority 21 April 2011
3. WO 2015/028681. Process for preparing a catalyst, catalyst obtained by such a process, and use of such catalyst, priority 2 September 2014
4. WO 2015/028682 A1. Process for preparing a catalyst, catalyst obtained by such a process, and use of such catalyst, priority 2 September 2013
5. WO 2015/028667 A1. Process for preparing a catalyst, catalyst obtained by such a process, and use of such catalyst, priority 2 September 2013
6. US 9115314 B2. Process for converting a solid biomass material issued 23 April 2013
7. US 9249362 B2. Separation of product streams, priority 21 April 2011
8. US 9238779 B2. Process for converting a solid biomass material, priority 21 April 2011
9. US 9217111 B2. Process for converting a solid biomass material, priority 21 April 2011
10. US 8779225 B2. Conversion of a solid biomass material, priority 21 April 2011
11. US 9222031 B2. Suspension of solid biomass particles in a hydrocarbon-containing liquid, priority 21 April 2011
12. US 9169444 B2. Liquid fuel composition, priority 21 April 2011
13. US 8920630 B2. Systems and methods for making a middle distillate product and lower olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock, priority 13 April 2007
14. EP 2504412 B1. Process for catalytic hydrotreatment of a pyrolysis oil,  priority 24 November 2009
15. WO 2015/028682 A1. Process for preparing a catalyst, catalyst obtained by such a process, and use of such catalyst, priority 2 September 2013
16. WO 2014/177668 A1. Process for converting a biomass material, priority 2 May 2013
17. WO 2014/154852. Process for the fluid catalytic cracking of oxygenated hydrocarbon compounds from biological origin, priority 28 March 2013
18. WO 2014/154846 A3. Process for the fluid catalytic cracking of oxygenated hydrocarbon compounds from biological origin, priority 28 March 2013
19. WO 2014/064007 A1. Process for converting a solid biomass material, priority 25 October 2012
20. WO 2013/102662 A1. Process for making a distillate product and/or C2-C4 olefins, 6 January 2012
21. WO 2013/072391 A1. Process for conversion of a cellulosic material, priority 14 November, 2011
22. WO 2012/143550. Process for converting a biomass material, priority 21 April 2011
23. WO 2012/143551. Process for converting a solid biomass material, priority 21 April 2011
24. WO 2012/069024 Process for preparation of biofuel and/or biochemical, priority 12 November 2010
25. WO 2011/073431 A3 Process for producing hydrocarbons from microbial lipids, priority 17 December 2009
26. WO 2012/084000. Process for Catalytic Cracking of aquatic microbial biomass, priority 20 December 2010
27. WO2012083999 A1. Process for catalytic cracking of a lipid-containing feedstock derived from microalgae to produce hydrocarbons, priority 20 December 2010
28. WO2012083998 A1. Process for catalytic cracking of a lipid-containing feedstock derived from microalgae to produce hydrocarbons, priority 20 December 2010
29. WO2007090884 A3. Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process, priority 13 February 2006.
30. WO2007071634. Method to measure olefins in a complex hydrocarbon mixture, priority 19 December 2004
31. WO 2006/067104 A1. Gasoline Cracking. Filed 20 December 2004.
32. US 6306791 B2. Bridged zirconocene compounds, process for their preparation and their use as catalyst components in the polymeriaztion of olefins. Priority 9 March 1998
33. EP 0942011 B1, Multi-stage process for the polymerization of olefins. T. Dall ‘Occo, G. Baruzzi, C. J. Schaverien, published 15 September 1999
34. EP 1049704 B1. Bridged metallocenes, preparation, use in catalytic systems, priority 20 November 1998
35. US 6479609 B1. Multi-stage process for the polymerisation of olefins, filed 18 June 2001
36. US 6673880 B2.  Bridged zirconocene compounds, process for their preparation and their use as catalyst components in the polymerization of olefins, priority 9 March 1998
37. US 6232484 B1. Bridged zirconocene compounds, process for their preparation and their use as catalyst components in the polymerization of olefins, priority 9 March 1998.
38. US 6433203 B 1 WO 00/31088. Bridged metallocenes, preparation, use in catalytic systems, priority 2 June 2000
39. US 6673880 B2 Bridged zirconocene compounds, process for their preparation, and their use as catalyst components in the polymerization of olefins, priority 9 March 1998
40. US 6369254 B1. Bridged metallocene compounds, process for the preparation thereof, and use thereof in catalysts for the polymerization of olefins, priority 30 May 1995
41. EP 606125 B1. Use of titanium and zirconium compounds as homogeneous catalyst and novel titanium and zirconium compounds, priority 6 January 1994.

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