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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…
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…
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…
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…
Refractories and Ceramics: Raw Materials, Manufacturing and Applications
During the last twenty years, he has been working on the development, production and quality control of kiln furniture for firing a wide variety of ceramic products. He is experienced in the manufacture of cordierite or cordierite-mullite, both standard and…
Optical Fiber Mechanical Properties and Reliability
He is currently co-authoring a completely revised edition of Mechanical Properties of Ceramics. His contributions are primarily concerned with the mathematical basics of mechanical behavior as well as statistical and stress corrosion aspects of strength. He has developed computational models…
Glass and Ceramic Plant Design: Erection, Construction, Start-up and Operation
After 4 years of chemical engineering education, he studied in the Department of Glasses, Ceramics and Polymers of Sheffield University, UK where he has obtained M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. Following this, he has spent most of his early professional…
Quality Management Systems and Engineering Ceramics
Expert W. Expert has extensive experience with implementing and managing the ISO 9000 series of quality standards. He became an ISO Lead Auditor at Corning, Inc. He used his knowledge to implement and pass the ISO 9000 quality systems at…