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Process/Materials Development and Optimization in the Pulp, Paper and Nonwovens Industries
Expert has 30 years experience producing fibers and structures designed to yield optimal absorbent performance on a variety of substrates (water, oils, urine, menses, etc.). Expert's structures have been adapted and implemented in numerous consumer and B2B products currently on…
Rheology, Nanotechnology, Particulate/Multiphase Processes, Chemical Engineering.
Expert operates his contract research & development small business incorporated in 1990 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Expert's professional experience spanning over four decades in chemical engineering has focused around the broad areas of particulate/multiphase processes and rheology. Chemical engineering…
Decontamination, Precision Cleaning, Ferrofluids, Nanoparticles, Process Design and Development
The behavior of colloidal particles (now nano particles) has been the focus of Expert's professional career, starting with his doctoral studies on the spontaneous agglomeration of fine powders in graduate school. While at AVCO Corporation, he did pioneering work in…
Membrane Technology, Process Development and Innovation Processes
Expert has broad experience ranging from fundamentals of membrane science to commercial applications in chemical separation, industrial gas separations, pervaporation, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofilteration, reverse osmosis, membrane bio-reactors, gas-liquid contactors, fuel cell and battery separator membranes. Hands-on experience in hollow-fiber and…
Biotechnology, Enzymes, Environmental Bioremediation, Regulatory Compliance
Expert has over 40 years of experience in both basic and applied Biochemistry (biochemical research and enzymology) and Biotechnology. He is very successful in finding flaws in published and spoken materials. His strengths are in the fields of physical biochemistry,…
Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Sol-gel Sciences, Optics, Biotechnology, Glass, Ceramics, Spectroscopy
Expert is a specialist of sol-gel chemistry. He developed a new non-aqueous method for sol-gel glass coating to obtain transparent films for integrated optics and photonics using polysiloxane materials. The aim was to obtain low-softening temperature glasses to permit facile…
Chemistry, Materials Science, Polymers, Materials Testing, Plastics, Surface Chemistry, Biomaterials
Expert is a Ph.D. chemist with extensive industrial and academic experience. Industrial experience includes bench-level work at DuPont and senior executive experience at Bausch & Lomb. A former professor of polymer science at The University of Akron with over 100…
Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Analysis
He has worked widely on the analysis of petroleum (crude oil) and its refined products by using a wide variety of chromatographic and spectral techniques. These include gas chromatography with mass spectrometer detection, with element specific detection for sulfur, nitrogen,…
Surfactant Formulations, Microemulsions, Colloidal Dispersion, Improved Oil Recovery, etc.
Expert has applied his understanding of adsorption theory and phenomenon for contaminant fate and transport, for environmental cleanup and technologies development. He is also familiar with the interactions of surfactant and solid media, and adsorption of organic contaminants and other…
Chemical Process Industries, Waste Water and Air Pollution Control
Expert has wide ranging experience in the efficient application of Chemical Engineering principals such as Unit operations, Unit Processes and materials of construction towards economic & safe conversion of raw materials into useful products, and sound environmental stewardship. He has…