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Engineering Design and Analysis, Thermal, Fluids, Structural, Chemical Reactors, Energy Systems, CFD, FEA, Multi-physics
Expert has strong technical knowledge of mechanical and chemical engineering. He specialized in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and reaction engineering. He is highly experienced in design of heat exchangers, burners, chemical and bio-reactors, electrochemical systems, and alternative…
Soil Chemistry
Expert has 30 years experience in teaching, research, and guiding graduate students. His Soil Chemistry course attracted students from a variety of disciplines. The majority of Expert's research has been oriented toward soil impacts on environmental problems, and in most…
Fluidization Processes (lab, pilot plant, commercial scale-up and start-up)
Expert has conducted fluid bed experiments with five different commercial fluid bed processes involving all four types of powders (Group’s A, B, C, & D). His on-hands research involved all types of fluid bed reactor designs from bubbling to riser’s…
Water-Borne Disease Control using UV-Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide in Irrigation Systems
Expert has been involved with UV-Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide (Hydro-Peroxzone) in Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Nursery irrigation waters for over 12 years. He is an Ozone Water Consultant and has a formal agricultural qualification with hands-on knowledge of NFT Hydroponic…
Aluminum Reduction, Alumina Feed Control, Bath Chemistry, Process Control Strategies
Expert has 26 years of experience in aluminun reduction specializing in increased current effeciency and reductions in power consumption. He has developed alumina feed control, resistance control, ratio control, liquid level control, potline process improvement plans and current distribution strategies.…
Edible Oils, Trans Fats & Acids, Oilseed Processing, Fat Labeling, Soybean Oil, Supercritical Fluids
He is very familiar with sensory chemical and instrumental methods to assess the flavor of all types of edible oils and fats including salad/cooking oils margarine shortening and frying fats. Expert has 44 years experience in conducting both basic and…
Combustion, Air Pollution Control, and Utility and Industrial Boilers, Air Heaters, Dryers, Furnaces, Thermal Oxidizers
He has developed combustion modifications for reducing emissions of CO, unburned hydrocarbons, NOx and SO2, and specified and designed post-combustion systems for the control of NOx, SO2, HCl, and PM. These systems have been both prototype and commercial. He can…
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…
Environmental and Aquatic Chemistry; Metal-Organic Interactions; Surface Reactions; Kinetics
The field of aquatic chemistry begins with a focus on the speciation of solutes in aqueous solution (i.e. protonation level, complex formation with protons, hydroxide ions, metal ions, and ligands) and with pathways and rates of reaction. It now has…
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…