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Microwave Heating Technologies and Applications
Expert has 35+ years of experience in microwave heating for consumer, commercial, industrial, and scientific applications. This experience has included engineering and developing standard and custom products, including microwave clothes dryers, vending ovens, single- and multi-mode applicators, batch cavity and…
Carbides, Nitrides, SiAlON, Powder Synthesis & Processing, Ceramics Development & Fabrication
Technology: R&D + Engineering, Advanced Ceramics and Materials; Powders and Parts; Synthesis – processing – handling - transfer – ready-to-press feedstock – fabrication of parts – consolidation - finish - marketing. Development, processing and fabrication of fine and ultra fine…
Formulation of Fabric Conditioners, Washing Liquids and Perfume-Surfactant Interactions
Expert has applied his expertise and training in the area of intermolecular forces (vdW and London Dispersion forces) to the processing, cost and formulation optimisation/simplification and shelf-life improvement of concentrate (3x) detergent liquids and concentrate fabric conditioners over a nine…
Ceramic Technology, Professional Support on Ceramic Processes by Pressing and Extrusion
- Fast drying/firing extrusion processes - Dry-pressed floor and wall tiles - Production auditing and optimization - Problem solving - Raw materials investigation and exploiting - Product’s innovation - Organize and manage any ceramic manufacturing process, either by pressing or…
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…
Industrial Kilns and Furnaces for Processing Ceramics
Expert has over 40 years experience in analyzing, recommending and specifying kiln and furnace designs to meet a wide variety of process applications for ceramic materials. He has been involved in the design and construction of hundreds of kilns and…
Thermal Processing of Advanced Materials.
He has extensive experience with the removal of binder systems from ceramic systems during post-processing, including safety, code compliance and practical aspects. Binders worked with range from "classic" organic binders to "catalytic" binders (e.g. BASF Catamold). He designed, sold, engineered…
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…
Construction Materials, Heavy Clay Products, Clay Bricks, Roof Tiles
He managed the technical research center of the French heavy clay industry and has written wrote a book on manufacture of clay bricks and roof tiles. He knows quite well how to develop new product and how to solve production…
Ceramic Kiln Design, Ceramic Kiln Analysis, Ceramic Kiln Troubleshooting
He has worked with numerous industrial dryers for ceramics, and developed humidity and temperature curves for stress free drying. He has also designed dryer modifications to control air flow, temperature and humidity for yield improvment and energy reduction. He has…