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Process Safety, Risk Assessment/Management Major Accident Risks, Hazards and Land Use Planning
Process Safety has been the main focus of Expert's work as he seeks to assist companies avoid accidents completely (by eliminating hazardous materials or processes) or prevent them through providing protection (containment or control). In some circumstances the only available…
Fire, Explosion, Toxic releases, Chemical hazards, Chemical exposure, Risk assessment, Air pollution
Expert has investigated many process related industrial accidents (fire, explosion, toxic release etc), the best known of which was Buncefield, where he was one of two external experts relied on by the owners of the facility to assist with root…
Active Applications of Solar Thermal Energy: Thermophysics, Flat Plate Collector, Solar Water Heat
For 40 years he has been working in alternative energy systems. He created the design for the photovoltaic power system of the Mariner spacecraft that went to Venus and Mercury, with tilting panels to avoid overheating close to the sun.…
Pump Design and Applications
Expert in the design, applications, system analysis, and trouble shooting of centrifugal, axial and mixed flow pumps and drive systems including electric motors, gear drives, engines, clutches, drive shafts, and bearings. The applications include station design, application analysis, NPSH determinations,…
Chemical Process Industries, Waste Water and Air Pollution Control
Expert has wide ranging experience in the efficient application of Chemical Engineering principals such as Unit operations, Unit Processes and materials of construction towards economic & safe conversion of raw materials into useful products, and sound environmental stewardship. He has…
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Application and Development of NMR Technology and Analytical NMR Service
Expert has applied the analysis technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to all industrial sectors. In the petroleum sector he has applied high resolution 1H and 13C NMR to refinery products and crude oils, establishing structure performance relationships that…
Fluid Agitation, Mixing, Fermentation, Vendor Evaluation, Blending, Gas Dispersion, Biofuels
He received his BSChE from the University of Cincinnati in 1976, and has taken a course on Fermentation Biotechnology from The Center for Professional Advancement. A registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, he has over 40 years’ experience in the design…
Environmental Consulting – Industrial Wastewater & Process & Hazardous wastes
Expert has designed and refined and modeled activated sludge processes using a variety of models and have published technical articles on his work. Expert has designed and used air strippers in the treatment of groundwater and for oxidation. He is…
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…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…