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Pyrometallurgical Processes, Ferroalloy Smelting, AC-DC-Induction-Cupola Faces
Expert has applied his metallurgical engineering background to design novel processes, optimize energy consumption and efficiencies in smelter plants, resource evaluation and techno-economic modelling of metallurgical operations. He has developed custom process flow diagrams to utilize mineral resources that otherwise…
Minimizing Production Start Up Problems, NPD, Cold Heading, Fastener Applications
Cold Heading A total of 20+ years experience in the cold heading of specialty parts, screws, bolts, and solid rivets primarily for the automotive and appliance markets. He has experience in tool design, establishing forming sequences, cost estimating, manufacturing troubleshooting,…
Aluminium Wire Production and Products
Expert graduated in Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield in England and went on to complete a PhD in the thermodynamics and electrochemistry of high temperature, pseudo refining reactions. His first role in industry required the use of this electrochemical…
Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, and Materials Design
Expert has a Ph.D in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering -- specifically, in mechanical behavior and performance of metals and alloys -- from the University of Birmingham, England. His research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations,…
Grinding and Abrasive Processes
He is an expert in grinding. This includes but it not limited to grinding burn, thermal damage, methods to detect thermal damage, residual stresses and their effect on part performance, cycle optimization, part tolerances, coolant application, dressing-diamond application, high-speed-steel grinding,…
Material Selection, Corrosion Inhibition, and Failure Analysis in Oil and Gas (E&P) and the Chemical Industry
Expert's major contributions are in the area of materials selection, corrosion failure analysis and corrosion inhibition. 1. Optimized Material selection, process control and chemical treatment for the feasibility report (FR) for Oil and Gas field development/Revamping with modifications & Chemical…
Metallurgical Engineering, Failure Analysis, Heat Treatment, Supplier Development and Coatings
He has performed over 500 failure analysis of components which fractured due to fatigue. This has included both low cycle and high cycle fatigue failures due to mechanical, thermal mechanical and environmentally enhanced fatigue. He has specified and developed various…
Welding, Fabrication, Piping, Pressure Vessels, Shipbuilding, Brazing, Heat / Flame Straightening
He has successfully qualified hundreds of welding procedure qualifications for seam welding. Most notably he has worked with pipe manufacturers in Mexico to implement a 4 wire SAW process for piping longseams. He has been involved with all types of…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Corrosion of Metals and Aging of Nonmetals
Working in major corporations, the Expert has over thirty years experience in research and engineering relative to the corrosion of bare and coated metals, and the deterioration of nonmetallics. He has developed alloys and engineered designs to prevent the corrosion…