{"id":11577,"date":"2023-06-29T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:25:20","slug":"hewetson-08-appointed-chief-technology-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/06\/29\/hewetson-08-appointed-chief-technology-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewetson &#8217;08 appointed chief technology officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11578\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson.jpg 369w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barron Hewetson &#8217;08<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active Energy, the international waste biomass-based renewable energy company, has appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningstar.com\/news\/globe-newswire\/8860878\/active-energy-appoints-proven-biomass-energy-innovation-leader-as-chief-technology-officer\">Barron Hewetson<\/a> &#8217;08 as its chief technology officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Active Energy has developed a proprietary technology which transforms waste biomass material into high-value renewable pellets. Its patented CoalSwitch product can be blended and co-fired with coal at any ratio to reduce emissions without requiring significant plant modification. The first production plant for CoalSwitch is expected to come online this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barron holds both a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in agricultural and biological engineering from Purdue University as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Wabash College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While at Wabash, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and majored in psychology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active Energy, the international waste biomass-based renewable energy company, has appointed Barron Hewetson &#8217;08 as its chief technology officer. Active Energy has developed a proprietary technology which transforms waste biomass material into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Barron-Hewetson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}