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Welding Engineering: Application, Arcs, Laser, Base Metal, Troubleshooting, Pressure, Nuclear, Code
Expert's welding career began in a family-owned welding and radiator repair shop. He progressed to welding on offshore oil and gas platform structures, processing facilities, and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico while an undergraduate engineering student. As a graduate…
Sulphuric Plant, Sulphur, Phosphate Fertilizers Mineral Processing, Gold, Iron and Steel
Expert is a process engineer with 20 years’ experience and an excellent safety record in corrosive manufacturing environments. Management skills include the following: coaching, day-to-day budget management, cost control, and prioritizing resources utilization in order to achieve efficient product recoveries.…
Glass Technology, Geology and Raw Waterials, Glass Melting Furnaces, Glass Quality
Expert has more than 20 years of experience in glass technology. The first 13 years (1987 – 2001), he was a glass technologist at Verlipack, the (only) Belgian container glass manufacturer at that time (with 3 plants). In 2001 (due…
Iron and Steel Industry: Strategy, Projects & Operation Management, Sintering, Material Handling
Mr. V. K. Expert is a highly accomplished and performance driven, steel Industry professional with 38 years experience, at board level and non-board level positions, in various areas such as business strategy and planning, operations and maintenance management, project management,…
Thermal Processing of Advanced Materials.
He has extensive experience with the removal of binder systems from ceramic systems during post-processing, including safety, code compliance and practical aspects. Binders worked with range from "classic" organic binders to "catalytic" binders (e.g. BASF Catamold). He designed, sold, engineered…
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Expert has extensively worked on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. He has developed new products that enable effective flow control and filtering based on CFD modeling, improving performance up to twice the efficiency compared to previous designs. He has conducted…
Ceramic Kiln Design, Ceramic Kiln Analysis, Ceramic Kiln Troubleshooting
He has worked with numerous industrial dryers for ceramics, and developed humidity and temperature curves for stress free drying. He has also designed dryer modifications to control air flow, temperature and humidity for yield improvment and energy reduction. He has…
Refractories and Ceramics: Raw Materials, Manufacturing and Applications
During the last twenty years, he has been working on the development, production and quality control of kiln furniture for firing a wide variety of ceramic products. He is experienced in the manufacture of cordierite or cordierite-mullite, both standard and…
Steel Foundry, Steel Manufacturing, Alloy Steel, Abrasion Resistant & Ductile Iron Castings
Chromium-molybdenum steel and iron castings are used in various engineering industries where high tensile strength, toughness and abrasion resistance is of prime importance. For example, in mining industry, different parts of a P&H Shovel are made of chromium- molybdenum steel…
Combustion, Heat Transfer, Process Furnaces, Incineration, Air Pollution Control, etc.
He had developed and monitored tests to demonstrate that the air pollution control system operate as designed. Modifications were made to air pollution control systems to improve their operation to meet the regulatory requirements. The air pollution control system incorporates…