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Textile Flammability and Dyes, QC for Color, Textile Environmental, Training
Expert has over 25 years experience with bleaching textile materials composed of cotton, flax, wool, polyester and viscose on a full range of equipment including continuous steaming(roller and flatbed), jiggers, pad-batch, jets yarn package, skein and garment laundry. He is…
Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Safety, Nuclear Weapon Operations, and Nuclear Weapons Complex
Expert has participated in designing and developing nuclear weapons, including new concepts and manufacturing processes. He has participated in many design reviews of weapon designs. He was a member of a Red Team that evaluated technology and the status of…
Executive Management, Finance, Nanotechnology, Polymers, Thin films, Display Devices, RFID
Most of Expert's career has been involved in advanced materials product innovation. He has 24 patents issued in this area and many more pending. Successful products have been released in electronics, energy conservation, post-harvest food preservation, golf clubs, animal neutraceuticals,…
Chemical Engineering, Process Plant Design, Biofuels, Economic Feasibility
Interests in adsorption go back to his PhD when he studied adsorption of proteins to polymers. He did an extensive surface chemistry course at the time and did a lot of work on zeta potential of particles. Since then he…
Entrepreneurship, Startup Financing, Business Plan Development, Due Diligence, Cleantech, Energy Technologies, and Nanotechnology
Expert has started two early-stage cleantech companies over the past 10 years in the water treatment and building materials sectors, raising multiple rounds of venture financing and securing numerous government grants for both. He drove IP development, strategic partner identification…
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…
Utilities and Energy Companies
Expert is skilled in high value contract negotiation as a counterparty to major petroleum, chemical and utility firms. He has represented financial firms, real estate managers, power plant developers and transmission providers. He has significant experience on both sides of…
Environmental Management, Experimental Designs, Refinery Processes
Expert C. Expert discovered and patented methods and catalysts for reducing SOx emissions from fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) operations. He designed and constructed testing equipment for fast turnaround and low cost screening of SOx catalysts. He has investigated refinery NOx…
Compliant Mechanisms, Flexure/Torsion Hinges, MEMS, Microsystems, and Finite Element Analysis
Expert notes that both of Castigliano's theorems are excellent tools in quantifying deformations and loads (external or reaction) of elastic bodies under small- or large-deformation modeling assumptions. He has extensively applied these theorems in finding closed-form solutions for compliances or…
Process Engineering, Inorganic Chemicals: Chloralkali, Sulfuric Acid, SO2, and Fertilizers
Expert’s graduate work (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) was in adsorption of gases in molecular sieve zeolites. The work included exhaustive experimentation on equilibrium and kinetics of adsorption and included calculation of adsorption energy from electrostatic and van der Waals forces acting…