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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…
Anaerobic Industrial Wastewater Digestion, Hazardous Waste Management
Expert understands the biological and chemical principles involved in aerobic and anaerobic bacteria metabolic processes and has audited and optimized industrial wastewater digesters in industrial and municipal facilities. Her engineering evaluations of system design and performance include the use of…
Aluminium Wire Production and Products
Expert graduated in Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield in England and went on to complete a PhD in the thermodynamics and electrochemistry of high temperature, pseudo refining reactions. His first role in industry required the use of this electrochemical…
Metallurgical Engineering, Failure Analysis, Heat Treatment, Supplier Development and Coatings
He has performed over 500 failure analysis of components which fractured due to fatigue. This has included both low cycle and high cycle fatigue failures due to mechanical, thermal mechanical and environmentally enhanced fatigue. He has specified and developed various…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Sol-gel Sciences, Optics, Biotechnology, Glass, Ceramics, Spectroscopy
Expert is a specialist of sol-gel chemistry. He developed a new non-aqueous method for sol-gel glass coating to obtain transparent films for integrated optics and photonics using polysiloxane materials. The aim was to obtain low-softening temperature glasses to permit facile…
Metallurgy, Tribology, Corrosion, Failure Analysis (Fatigue, Fracture, Wear, etc.), Legal Support
Expert has has worked extensively in the field of corrosion. He has taught a senior level college courses on the subject, performed fundamental research with published findings and he has testified in court as to the effect corrosion has on…
Geological, Geophysical, Geochemical & Geotechnical Surveys and Exploration Mineral Exploration
He has used his expertise of geology, geomorphology and terrain analysis in coal exploration and planned a drilling program which saved money by avoiding unnecessary excessive drilling. General term for folding, faulting, and other processes resulting from shear, compression, and…
Catalysis and Materials Characterization, Development of Biochemical Sensors, Electrode Surfaces
Expert has over thirty years of experience in both basic and applied research. His graduate work was concerned with the development of biochemical sensors based on chemically modified thermistors and electrodes using enthalpimetric and electroanalytical techniques. He also worked on…
Biomaterials, Medical Device Rapid Prototyping, and Laser Processing of Materials
Since their invention in the early 1960s, lasers have found many uses in the medical field. Most current medical applications of lasers involve use as a “universal scalpel” in minimally invasive surgeries, which offer little contact, little blood loss, shorter…