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Mineral Flotation, Mineral Processing, Training, Tails Thickening, Mining Water Treatment
MINING SEGMENTS • Iron ore (10 years as research metallurgist and Research Coordinator, Flotation with Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company). • Uranium (1 ½ years as an operating engineer at a uranium solution mining semi works mine) • Potash, industrial minerals…
Copper Smelting, Copper Refining, Copper Recycling and Copper Rod Making
Has extensive experince in Copper Melting in Induction furnace, Arc Furnace, Oil fired furnaces as well as Shaft furnace Set up a secondary copper smelter for recovering Copper from wastes using Kaldo Technology Operated a Conventional copper refinery at Khetri…
Solvent Extraction and Process Development for Separation of Metals
Expert, while employed at B.A.R.C., a world-renowned institute, made significant contributions in Chemistry. He has been consulting to various national and international organizations since 1994 in the field of solvent extraction for metal separations, analytical chemistry, solution chemistry to name…
Engineering: Mining, Minerals, Metallurgy, Chemicals, Materials, and Energy- Especially Fuels
Expert is a professionally registered engineer with 28 years of experience in process, chemical and metallurgical engineering, engineering services, research, consulting and industrial plant operations. Experienced and trained in pyrometallurgy, he also has extensive industrial experience in hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, environmental…
Foundry, Investment, Permanent Mold, Squeeze, Low Pressure, Casting, Ferrous, Non-ferrous Alloys
FOUNDRY & CASTING TECHNOLOGY: Expert (Foundry Project Consultant & Metal Casting Consultant) has worked with various molding, casting processes: expertise in process, materials sourcing; product costing; pattern, die design, conversion of weldment to casting, electroslag refining, continuous & direct chill…
Resistance Welding, Laser Welding, Arc Welding, Ultrasonic Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
He has extensive experience in brazing starting with his PhD (Penn State) in brazing of structural ceramics. He worked on the Alumnia-Titanium system using an active braze alloy of Ag-Cu-Ti composition. Active brazing has found wide acceptance in brazing of…
Economic Analysis, Feasibility Studies, Project Management, Non ferrous metals, chemical metallurgy
Much of Expert’s career has been spent in hydrometallurgy and aqueous corrosion. Both require knowledge and experience in aqueous metal chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and electrochemistry in a process environment. Much of Expert’s career has been spent in hydrometallurgy and aqueous…
Welding, Fabrication, Failure Analysis conventional and nuclear stainless & nickel base
Expert learned that stainless steel parts in a carbon steel world are welded to another metal. Success requires attention, not only to chemistry mixtures (metallurgy) (Ferrite Diagrams), but also to mechanical forces before and during welding, as well as service…
Extractive-Metallurgy, Hydro-Metallurgy, Pyro-Metallurgy, Inorganic Processing and Soil and Waste Remediation
Expert has been active in the field of extractive metallurgy for more than 60 years. He has developed processes for the recovery of many metals including antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, germanium, gold, lead, lithium, magnesium,…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…