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Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Expert has conducted an extensive review for the Electric Power Research Institute on coal beneficiation to enhance conversion. Much of the focus of his work has been on ash forming mineral removal and desulfurization. He has extensive contacts in this…
Bionewable Conversion Processes, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Adsorbents
The catalyst synthesis technology developed by expert and his associates is directly applied to the catalysis of petroleum and chemical reactions. Therefore, the insight that he has in the catalyst technology allows him to solve many problems relating to the…
Mixing, Pilot Plants, Scaleup, Atomization, Agglomeration, Evaporation, Heat Exchangers
Expert has extensive knowledge of mixing operations needed in the chemical, petrochemical, and biochemical industries. His knowledge includes the proper selection of effective mixing geometries and the power requirements needed by a mixing unit in either laminar or turbulent applications.…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…
Polymerization Reaction Engineering
EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; ACRYLATE; ADDITION POLYMERIZATION. A good deal of Expert's academic and industrial work has been in the area of reactor engineering for emulsion and miniemulsion polymerization systems. Of special interest are the choice of reactor configuration…
Chemical Engineering, Enzymes
Expert has spent the majority of his professional career developing and refining the use of chemical engineering techniques to design biochemical reactors holding enzymes and microbial cells. Expert is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Employer's Chemical Engineering program.…
Cleaning Formulae & Government Regulations
Expert has spent the majority of his career with a specialty chemical company that formulates products primarily for metal cleaning, industrial water treatment, odor control and detergents. He is particularly familiar with both solid and liquid operations that include mixing,…
Chemical Process and Design
Expert has expertise in design, system engineering, and practical applications focusing on packed and tray towers, evaporators, heat exchangers (i.e. shell and tube, spiral and plate type, and specialized heat transfer equipment), heat pumps, pressure and vacuum filtration, dryers, centrifuges,…
Reactive Metals
A significant portion of Expert's career centered on the reduction of titanium tetrachloride, using magnesium and/or sodium to obtain titanium metal. In particular, one portion was involved with the high-capacity production of molten titanium directly via a flow reactor. This…
Chemical Reaction Engineering
POROUS MATERIAL; REACTIONS IN POROUS SOLIDS. A major portion of Expert's research has been concerned with reactions of porous solids, the kinetics of which are largely controlled by pore diffusion. In particular, he has worked on coal/char combustion and desulfurization…