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Advanced Process Control, Process Optimization, Distillation Control, Process Operations, pH Control
Expert has extensive experience in the industrial practice of process control. He has served as an industrial control consultant, has written two chapters for industrial chemical engineering handbooks on process control and has written a popular undergraduate process control textbook…
Fluidization Processes (lab, pilot plant, commercial scale-up and start-up)
Expert has conducted fluid bed experiments with five different commercial fluid bed processes involving all four types of powders (Group’s A, B, C, & D). His on-hands research involved all types of fluid bed reactor designs from bubbling to riser’s…
Process & Control Engineering, Operational Excellence, Reliability & Expert Witness
Multi-talented and versatile leadership & management skills with geographically and culturally diverse teams & projects. Broad and diverse experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical, and biofuels industries. Project management skills include project definition, budget, scope & proposal development, and cost…
Chemical Process and Catalyst Technologies, Licensing, R&D, Engineering, General Management
Expert spent his industrial career first as a process and catalyst development engineer, and ending up as the president of two organizations, each involved in developing and licensing chemical processes and developing and selling heterogeneous catalysts to the global chemical…
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…
Nuclear Power/Accidents, Radiation Detection, Radioactive Waste, Environmental Science, Forensics
Expert, a licensed professional engineer (P.E.), has earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering. Expert is a former Visiting Full Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, he is a former…
Intellectual Property and Patent Law: Chemicals, Materials, Energy, Biotech; and Chemical Engineering
He has extensive experience developing commercial biorefinery technologies for the production of chemicals, materials, and energy from biomass. He has developed patent-pending biorefinery technologies as lead inventor. He is aware of the spectrum of feedstocks, technology pathways, co-product opportunities, economic…
Mechanics (Stress, Dynamics, Test), Modeling (FEA, CFD, Chemical), Machine Design, Controls
At Cessna, Expert designed the pressure cabin, empennage, and main spar carry through for the 441 Conquest and 650 Citation 2. His other engineering responsibilities included stress measurement (strain gauges, brittle coatings), solids modeling (NASTRAN), and FAA certification report authoring.…
Process Automation: Process Control, Computer System Validation, Alarm Management, & Modeling
Expert served for several years as a major pharmaceutical company's chief Quality Assurance GMP/GLP computer validation auditor. He chaired the team that developed the company's first policy and guidelines regarding computer validation,- and served for several years as the company's…
Polymer Processing; Pilot Plant Design; Process Development
After 20 years working for chemical companies expert changed his career to work full-time on chemical plant design. He has worked 15 years for engineering and construction companies doing chemical plant design (chemicals, polymers, pharmaceutical and related fields). He continued…