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Surfactant Applications, Surfactant Production, Water-soluble Polymers, Detergency, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Cleaning Products, Interfacial Phenomena
Expert worked 30 years for Shell Chemicals and Shell Exploration & Production in the fields of surfactant manufacturing and surfactant applications including detergency, enhanced oil recovery, industrial & institutional, and pulp & paper. For twenty years, expert provided customer technical…
Rheology, Nanotechnology, Particulate/Multiphase Processes, Chemical Engineering.
Expert operates his contract research & development small business incorporated in 1990 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Expert's professional experience spanning over four decades in chemical engineering has focused around the broad areas of particulate/multiphase processes and rheology. Chemical engineering…
Fluid and Thermal Science, Interfacial Fluid Flow
Expert has over 15 years of experience performing interfacial fluid flow research. The bulk of her work in this area has relied on mathematical modeling and numerical techniques. She has developed computational fluid dynamics algorithms to simulate incompressible, interfacial flows…
Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers, Polymer Composites and Polymer Nanocomposites
Expert has published numerous papers on surfactant and polymer adsorption at water-solid interfaces. A great deal of his work involves characterization and properties of amorphous polymers, especially polystyrene and its various derivatives. He earned B.S. and PhD degrees in Chemical…
Surfactant Formulations, Microemulsions, Colloidal Dispersion, Improved Oil Recovery, etc.
Expert has applied his understanding of adsorption theory and phenomenon for contaminant fate and transport, for environmental cleanup and technologies development. He is also familiar with the interactions of surfactant and solid media, and adsorption of organic contaminants and other…
R&D Project Design, Paper Coatings, Additives & Nanocomposite Materials, Colloid Chemistry, Polymers
He is actively leading researches in the field of controlled free-radical polymerization mediated by Reversible Activation-Fragmentation chain Transfer (RAFT) in homogenous and heterogeneous media. The uniqueness of his work lies in the combination of modern methods of controlled free-radical polymerization…
Textiles, Fluoropolymers, Chemicals
He has been involved in surface modification for 20 years. His main expertise is in fabric modification to make water and oil repellent textiles. He founded a company, Nano-Tex, in 1998 to do this. He is now manufacturing the chemicals…
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…
Web Coating Technology and Process Scale-Up
Expert consults in all aspects of the web coating process and has experience in a wide range of coating process and product types. He has over 35 years expertise in the coating and drying of thin films, coating process development…
Immunoreagents, Clinical Reagents, Surfactant Science
Expert developed, created and adapted immunoassays for flagship auto analyzers. Using a variety of surfactants, he engineered reagents, controls and calibrators for immunoassays of thyroids (T3, FT3, T4 and FT4), reproductive hormones (FSH, LH, hCG and prolactin), anemia (B12 and…