Vann Bush

Vann Bush is Managing Director of Gasification and Gas Processing at the Gas Technology Institute. He oversees all matters relating to the conversion of solid fuels (coal or biomass) into synthesis gas, and the cleanup and reforming of natural gas and synthesis gas for use in power, chemicals, and liquid fuels production. The team under Mr. Bush conducts research and development activities that span basic materials developments, bench-scale testing, large pilot-scale evaluations, and techno-economic assessments. His team actively supports commercial deployments of fluidized-bed gasifiers and acid gas removal processes developed at GTI, and serve as a solutions development partner for the gasification and gas processing industry.

Before joining GTI, Mr. Bush served in numerous positions up to Vice President of Environment and Energy at Southern Research Institute where he conducted, supervised and managed projects in coal combustion, biomass co-firing, emissions monitoring, pollution control systems, and technologies to mediate greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Bush is a graduate with high honors of the University of North Alabama, and completed his Masters degree in Physics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.