Alexander Noack
Alexander Noack was born near Berlin in 1965. After finishing the school Alexander became a mechanic for agricultural machinery and finished parallel the professional school the high school in 1985. After joining the military service he started in 1987 a study of mechanical engineering. During the study he spent time in Russia, England and Ireland. He obtained an advanced degree in mechanical engineering at the Mercedes Benz Company in 1993 where he developed successfully a new structure of quality management in the engine manufacturing. Already during his study, he joined the ELSBETT Company (1990) and got in touch with straight vegetable oil (SVO+WVO) engine technology. All this was very impressive and convinced Alexander to join this company after his stay at Mercedes Benz (1993). At ELSBETT Alexander was involved in many different projects and gained a lot of experiences in stationary and mobile engine developments and applications. Furthermore, Alexander was part of the original Swatch-(Smart)-car project for which ELSBETT developed the small multi-fuel single cylinder hybrid engine. From 1994 on he was responsible for a number of co-gen-set projects mostly driven by straight vegetable oil (Rapeseed). From 1995 he developed the Eco-Tuning program which includes aftermarket conversion kits for serial mass produced cars and later on even for trucks, agricultural and construction machinery, etc. In parallel to his career at ELSBETT Alexander joined in 1997 and 1998 a business study in Switzerland. 2000 Alexander became the technical head of the ELSBETT Company and was responsible for all ongoing technical developments and projects. He extended the Eco-Tuning program to electronic controlled and direct injection engines and as well to common rail engine technologies. Alexander registered a couple of patents and technical rights as a result of his research projects. In general, there were converted more than 10.000 engines with conversion kits produced by ELSBETT. Beside the technical work Alexander pushed these products more intensively to other countries. He joined projects, workshops and trainings all over the world and is a well-known and respected person in this business.