About Us

Vision
We see a world where toxic emissions from energy generation no longer pose environmental threats, and where millions of gallons of contaminated water are made pure and drinkable every day. We work so the basic building blocks of life and economies are readily accessible to those who need them without detrimental environmental consequences.
Mission
At SREUS we make cost-effective, Sustainable and Renewable Energy and Utility Systems, that make economic and environmental sense. Our systems produce electricity and clean water from sewage, biofuels, oil well production water, and gas. SREUS units are maintenance-friendly, offer low operating costs, and provide a much needed alternative to current power options.
Our Team
Get to know us

Johnny Kraczek
Co-Founder
Johnny is a passionate engineer, visionary, and father. He believes in a world where the building blocks of economies are available to all.
30+ years of business development, sustainable energy, and engineering leadership. Founder or co-founder of six commercial startups and a 501c3 non-profit.

Johnny Kraczek
Co-Founder
Engineer & Project Manager
Johnny is a degreed Mechanical Engineer with significant experience in multiple engineering fields. He has been the project engineer over $350 million worth of successful projects in international plant construction and installations.
He has personally directed 5 manufacturing plant designs and setups from development to plant operation.
He has 16 years experience as a senior project engineer or consulting engineer for various clients. In that time he has completed 22 product development cycles from concept through design, manufacturing, marketing, and commercial or industrial sales.
Business Builder
He is the founder or co-founder of six commercial startups and a 501c3 nonprofit. He has 10 years of manufacturing plant management experience running crews up to 90 people.
Results
Johnny has developed 14 patents for clients and personally owned businesses.
He has had 5 technological breakthroughs as a lead researcher, including high-efficiency electrolysis, wind turbine design, wind to hydrogen energy storage, fuel cell design, and the SREUS energy system.
International Presenter & Consultant
Johnny has done research, consultations and presentations internationally on sustainable and renewable energy and water systems. He has worked with and presented to energy and environmental ministries in Tonga, Singapore, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Grenada, Benin Africa, and six states in India. This includes meetings with prime ministers, ministers of energy, environment, and international power plant operators.
He has presented to 33 countries collectively from Central and South America to the EU in meetings sponsored by the United Nations.
International Capital
He has worked with consultants from the World Bank & and the Asian Development Bank.

Paul Freeman
Co-Founder
Paul is an engineer, father, and advocate for the human population and their families. Paul believes in creating systems to help future generations prosper and grow.
Extensive experience managing multi-million-dollar facilities, maintenance, production, and engineering teams.

Paul Freeman
Co-Founder
Engineer & Project Manager
Paul is a degreed manufacturing engineer with an MBA and significant experience as a major plant engineer and maintenance engineer.
He has spent 5 years in manufacturing plant management running maintenance and turn-around crews. He has successfully managed a $500 M production facility in heavy industry.
Paul has spent 10 years as Director of Proposals at PSE winning millions of dollars of business.
He has also spent time as the project manager of a project developing low to middle-income housing technologies for parts of the developing world such as Benin, Africa, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.
Business Builder
Paul is the founder or co-founder of 4 commercial startups and 1 non-profit 501C3.
Technological Research and Breakthroughs
Paul has had 5 technological breakthroughs as project manager including high-efficiency electrolyzers, wind turbine design, wind to hydrogen energy storage, fuel cell design, and the SREUS energy system.
He has worked in the development of 7 patents and has also conducted studies of hydrogen supplementation of diesel to increase truck fuel efficiency on the road.
International Presenter & Consultant
Paul has been an international researcher, presenter, and consultant on sustainable and renewable energy and water systems. He has worked with and presented to energy and environmental ministries in the Bahamas, Grenada, and 4 states in India. He has also worked with key players in infrastructure in Samoa, Western Samoa, and Tonga. Paul has also developed a windows grant application for Spanish Wells in the Bahamas.
He has conducted meetings with power plant operators and community leaders in many areas to understand their needs.·

Gordon Whipple
engineering
Gordon is a outstanding breakthrough engineer committed to making the world a better place for future generations.
Ultra high pressure and high temperature expert.

Gordon Whipple
Engineering
Engineer & Project Manager
Gordon is a degreed Mechanical Engineer with experience in multiple engineering fields, and has spent years as a senior engineer for Smith International.
He has been the instrumentation engineer/compliance officer/ senior project engineer and manager at URS Corporation. He has also spent time as the product line engineer/project engineer at National Oilwell Varco where he managed projects and lead teams in product development, selection, and installation.
Developer
Gordon developed a single insert tester for Smith International that served as a backbone to their engineering of the highly successful IDEAS drill bits.
Results
He advised a software development group that cut drill bit product engineering by 20% at National Oil Well Varco, and implemented field repair procedures that increased the life of a lucrative string tool’s 300%.
He is also bilingual in both English and Spanish.

Don Thomason
VP of Sales
Don is a business problem solver with a passion for improving the environment.
30+ years of sales and sales executive leadership in the technology industry, up to and including a billion dollar business unit for a Fortune 50 company.

Don Thomason
VP of Sales
Business Administration and Marketing
30+ Years of Sales Executive Leadership
Don has 30+ years of sales and sales executive leadership in the technology industry. He was the top sales leader 5 consecutive years for a Fortune 50 company.
He developed and managed direct sales channels, manufacturing reps, distributors, and dealer networks. He has also been very successful in bringing new technologies to market.
Don also drove the development of numerous products to meet the needs of customers resulting in significant incremental revenue and customer loyalty.
He has successfully sold solutions to every market segment from small business to global Fortune 100 companies.
Business Builder
Don and his co-founder developed and successfully brought to market a technology with customers in 94 countries.
He is also known for turning around underperforming sales organizations. Don took an organization from an in-year shortfall of $450M and finished 112% of plan.
He also successfully introduced new technologies (email, video conferencing, two-way paging, virtual private networks, inter and intranet solutions, etc.) into the Fortune 1000 business market segment.
Market Understanding
Don has developed a clear understanding of the adoption curve and how to leverage strategic distribution channels to facilitate speed to market.
His passion and forte is solution selling that solves business problems while improving the environment.
Enthusiastic Team Player
Don is creative, focused, and customer-centric, and creates positive and productive team atmospheres. He is dedicated to achieving and exceeding company goals and is proud to be a part of the SREUS solution and team.

Chelsie Hepworth
Business Development Manager
Chelsie is a compassionate businesswoman deeply committed to improving the world.
Former Director of operations at Brightbox, managing director of the Wolverine Venture Capital Fund at Utah Valley University and VP of Academics.

Chelsie Hepworth
Business Development Manager
Manager/Project Manager
Chelsie worked as the director of operations at BrightBox where she oversaw production, and employee management.
Chelsie was elected VP of Academics over 37,000 students and personally oversaw the allocation of $130,000. She also assisted in overseeing the allocation of $18.2 M.
Chelsie was also the managing director of the Wolverine Venture Fund at UVU.
She was the ENACTUS Project manager for a project in Zambia Africa. Along with her team, she wrote curriculum and taught business principles to 20 girls attending a girls' school, evaluated their business models, researched sustainability options, and more.
She was also a UVU Center for Social Impact Alternative Breaks student coordinator. She spearheaded service trips to the Redwood Forest (California) to do youth mentoring, Portland (Oregon) to work with homelessness and poverty, and Salt Lake City (Utah) to help with refugees.Cadda
Venture Capital Experience
Chelsie served as the managing director of the Wolverine Venture Fund at UVU.
She interned at both the Wolverine Fund and Tamarak Capital venture funds.
Chelsie and her team participated in the 2019 VCIC competition and came out as the regional champions, and received 2nd place in the national championship.
Community/Global Engagement
Chelsie has spent over 6,000 hours of community service including: After School Programs, Special Olympics, fundraising for projects for inner-city schools, various food banks, community theater projects, and homelessness and poverty solution projects in Portland Oregon. She has also provided service in science education in Scotts Valley, California, assisted living, elderly care, community gardens, theatrical productions, as well as teaching english, health principles, education, and business in India, Zambia, and Mexico. She worked with orphans in both Noida and Chamba India.
Chelsie loves people and enjoys seeing how she can make a difference in their lives.
Skill Sets
Chelsie was a presenter on the ENACUTS presentation team where they placed nationally in their first year competing.
She spent a summer as a door to door sales representative and ended the summer as one of the top representatives.
She spent a summer as a lab assistant working with electrolyzer development.
Chelsie is also bilingual in both English and Spanish.
SREUS History
SREUS International is a company growing out of the combined vision and passion of Johnny Kraczek and Paul Freeman. They and their team are making a positive impact for the future generations through technology and infrastructure development that produces clean water, environmentally sustainable power, sewer treatment, and housing in an economically and environmentally positive way.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The foundations of SREUS Energy technologies date back to chemistry experiments as early as the 1830s and, more recently, tremendous work done in the 1980s by companies like General Atomics. The teams at G.A. developed functional Supercritical Water Oxidation Reactors (SCWOR), that were used by the Department of Defense to destroy nerve agents and other chemical weapon components at Dugway Proving grounds in Utah and elsewhere.
SCWORs spread to many industries—the high pressure, high-temperature water reactors are still common to this day in the pesticide, herbicide, pharmaceutical, and food processing industries. SCWORs are used to break down and destroy highly toxic and highly complex contaminates (these are byproducts of these industries) to clean up their waste streams.
SREUS also utilizes several key breakthroughs in reverse osmosis technology and advanced hydrocyclone technology developed and sold by companies such as Krebs and Desalitech. The robust trash handling systems SREUS uses comes out of the mining and minerals processing industry with contributors like FLSmidth and its many crushing, grinding, and screening divisions.
Uncovering A Serious Problem
SREUS founders Johnny Kraczek and Paul Freeman, collaborators together on several businesses and a nonprofit, were working with CAT in 2016-2017 to develop a completely independent utility for housing projects in the developing world. A site was selected for middle-lower incoming housing in the Dominican Republic and the project was named Casa Nuevo.
As the project grew closer to launching, the engineers at CAT and the Casa Nuevo team recognized that the system as designed had a fatal flaw: the sewer gas produced by the sewage digesters would shorten the lifespan of the generators by 80% without gas filtration. To further complicate matters, it would also produce sulfur dioxide in the exhaust, the source of smog and acid rain. Gas filtration at a level to remove the sulfur from the incoming sewer gas was energy expensive and high maintenance, throwing off the economic balance to the point that Johnny and Paul gave Casa Nuevo a red light until a new solution could be found.
In researching a solution to the problem, Johnny opened discussions with General Atomics and learned how effective their SCWOR was. SCWOR breaks down nearly everything from long-chained molecules into very simple salts, acid’s, and water. Even so, it wasn't a solution for Casa Nuevo. Although the reactor can break down sewage completely with zero toxic or smog emissions and output sterile water, there was a drawback from using their system on sewage. Their system did not recover the energy on the backside of the reactor making it expensive to run--their system was designed to destroy toxins, not make electricity.


This is a SREUS Solution.
After completing the engineering, design work, and prototype build of a new steam turbine in 2019 for a client, Paul, Johnny and their team turned to look again at the SCWOR. Their goal was to investigate the possibility of using a SCWOR in place of the bio-digester and biogas generators for projects like Casa Nuevo. Significant research and engineering resulted in 5 new patents filed in 2020. The patented technological advances of the SCWOR make power and water generation from sewage (and a dozen other fuel streams) possible. As the list of interested industries grew the opportunity became more compelling and Johnny and Paul realized that a dedicated company with multiple divisions would be needed to meet the initial demand for this technology. The company that owns these patents would be in an amazing spot to make a huge environmental impact. Thus, SREUS Energy was started.
Precision Systems Engineering, the largest homegrown full service consulting engineering firm in Utah, with much of its work in heavy industry, recognized the potential for the SREUS technology to positively impact many of their clients' industries. They decided to invest in SREUS in April of 2020 and as a result, and the first phase of detailed engineering work was finished on June 5, 2020.