Leslie Bromberg
About Leslie
Dr. Bromberg has worked for over a decade reforming hydrocarbon fuels, mostly using plasmas. With Prof. Wai Cheng from MIT, he has been investigating the potential role of methanol in transportation in the US. He is also a participant, in a DOE efforts to evaluate the use of two fuels in SI engines (two fuels, the first one being conventional gasoline and the second one being a high octane fuel additive). He is also working on particulate control of diesel engines, as part of the Filter Sensing Technologies, a company started to develop RF-based soot-sensors of DPFs.
Professional interests: Engines, combustion and engine modeling, PM emission sensing, plasma chemistry, energy and fuels.
Education
- PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Cambridge MA. 1977
- BS., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge MA, 1973
Experience
- Research Scientist, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, May 1977-Oct 1977
- Research Scientist, Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Oct 1977-June 1979
- Research Scientist, Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1979-Jun 1985
- Group Lead, Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1985-Jun 1996
- Principal Research Scientist, Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1996-present
- President and co-founder, Maine Research and Technology, Sanford ME, Jan 1990-Dec 2001
- President and co-founder, Hydrogen Microplasmatron Technologies, Cambridge MA, Jan 2001-Dec 2005
- Treasurer and co-founder, Ethanol Boosting Systems, Cambridge MA; Jan 2006-present
- Co-Founder, Filter Sensing Technologies, Cambridge MA; 2008-present
Patents
Inventor or co-inventor of over 50 US issued patents. The most relevant patents are:- L. Bromberg, A. Sappok, W.H. Green and D.R. Cohn, ENGINE REFORMER SYSTEMS FOR LOWER COST, SMALLER SCALE MANUFACTURING OF METHANOL AND OTHER GAS TO LIQUIDS (GTL) PRODUCTS April 18, 2012.
- Rabinovich, Alexander, Cohn, Daniel R., Bromberg, Leslie, Plasmatron-internal combustion engine system, US patent 5437250,
- Cohn, Daniel R., Bromberg, Leslie, et al., Low power compact plasma fuel converter, US patent 6322757
- Bromberg, Leslie, Rabinovich, Alexander, Homogeneous charge compression ignition control utilizing plasmatron fuel converter technology, US patent 6981472
- Bromberg, Leslie, Cohn, Daniel R., Rabinovich, Alexander et al., Plasmatron-catalyst system, US patent 7279143
- Smaling, Rudolf M., Bromberg, Leslie et al., Apparatus and method for operating a fuel reformer so as to purge soot therefrom, US patent 7285247
- Heywood, John, Bromberg, Leslie, Cohn, Daniel, High compression ratio, high power density homogeneous charge compression ignition engines using hydrogen and carbon monoxide to enhance auto-ignition resistance, US patent 7290522
- Rabinovich, Alexander, Alexeev, Nikolai, Samokhin, Andrei, Bromberg, Leslie et al., Wide dynamic range multistage plasmatron reformer system, US patent 7381382
- Rabinovich, Alexander, Alexeev, Nikolai, Bromberg, Leslie et al., Plasmatron fuel converter having decoupled air flow control, US patent 7407634
- Rabinovich, Alexander, Alexeev, Nikolai, Bromberg, Leslie et al., Low current plasmatron fuel converter having enlarged volume discharges, US patent 7597860