Robert Crowder is a Technology Manager in Pentair at the White Bear Lake, MN location. He has worked there for 20 years in R&D and Engineering, working with gas separation hollow fiber membrane modules, medical filtration, and oil conditioning.
Robert graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1991. Robert received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1996. His Ph.D. Thesis “Pervaporation Membrane Module Design” produced two papers published in the Journal of Membrane Science: “Mass transfer resistances in hollow fiber pervaporation” and “Mass transfer in hollow-fiber modules with non-uniform hollow fibers”.
After graduate school, Robert moved into industry working in R&D for Porous Media, which was subsequently acquired by Pentair. He is co-inventor on eight issued U.S. Patents, five of which involve membrane technology.