Tom Tucker

Tom Tucker is the Principal and Founder of Kinergetics LLC, a Madison based engineering company focused on supporting industrial facilities around the world reduce energy costs and their environmental footprint through energy efficiency, de-carbonization, and beneficial electrification. His experience ranges from “potential studies”, investment grade energy assessments, and process de-bottlenecking, to detailed engineering, design, and commissioning of process heat recovery systems. 

Tom and his team at Kinergetics provided the design that won the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce “Environmental Innovation Award” in 2012 for process ventilation heat recovery and were awarded “Electrical Energy Efficiency Program Ally of the Year” for 2015/2016 by Ameren Illinois. In 2022, Tom was awarded a patent for a method to improve ethanol energy efficiency. A number of his heat reclaim designs are unique in the industry, including a Patent for application of direct contact evaporation waste heat integrated vapor recompression systems to convert low grade waste heat to steam.

Tucker is a registered Professional Engineer, Qualified Steam Specialist and certified Fan Systems Expert for the United States Department of Energy (DOE). He has more than 30 years of experience supporting industry by providing detailing energy efficiency, process engineering, project implementation and construction oversight in the food/dairy, pulp and paper, ethanol, plastics and metals industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the College of Charleston, and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.