Ardent
Brandon Burghardt is a Chemical Engineer with experience in new product development, process engineering, and research. Brandon has worked in various roles at companies like Ardent, W. L. Gore & Associates, and TopPoP Packaging. Brandon also served as a Research Assistant at the Vojvodic Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where Brandon conducted computational studies on catalyst materials. Brandon holds a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ardent
Ardent pioneers advanced membrane technologies to accelerate decarbonization and transform the global industrial and energy landscape. Ardent’s Optiperm™ platform holds the key to unlock cost-effective and energy-efficient point-source carbon capture across heavy industries like cement, steel and petrochemicals that are underserved by conventional carbon capture and other decarbonization pathways. Ardent’s modular, bolt-on separation technology addresses the efficiency and scalability issues of incumbent solutions, delivering a proven, scalable, energy-efficient, and cost-effective solution that can decarbonize heavy industry at the Gigaton scale. Ardent has 30 years of manufacturing experience across power generation, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and O&G operations. Ardent has a proven track record of taking new technologies from the lab to the field, partnering with global leaders like Chevron, Pfizer, and Braskem to deliver end-to-end solutions at commercial scale.