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Petroleum Lubricants, Lubricant Additives and Base Oils
27 years in two leading petroleum multi-national organizations: 15 years with Mobil Oil in Egypt and 12 years with BPME in Dubai. Jobs have included extensive cross-functional and cross cultural dealings. Bilingual English and Arabic training, teaching and lecturing for…
Fuel Additives, Chemical Process Development, Tech Evaluation and Due Diligence, Recycling of plastics and waste, Circular Economy
Expert is a chemical process engineer with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, backed by 7 years of R&D and process engineering engagements for NOVA Chemicals, British Petroleum, Lummus (CB&I) and fuel-additive and reactor design firms. He has developed his experience…
Polymers, Plastics, Composites, Plastic Pipe, Composite Pipe, and Failure Analysis
Throughout his 41-plus-year career experience in the plastics industry, Expert has worked in research and development, product development, technical services, application development, failure analysis, sales, marketing, market development, business development, R&D management, small business unit management, trade association management and…
Petroleum Processing Chemistry and Oil Products Compositional Chemistry
Expert was the lead process chemist supporting Acid Gas Amine Treating units in Shell US and Canadian Refineries and for Shell Canada Gas Plants. Expert also provided technical support Canadian Gas plants operating Shell licienced Amine systems (SCOTT and Sulfinol-D…
Marketing & Business Development in Specialty Chemicals, bio-based chemicals
Expert has 20 years experience in marketing and business development of specialty chemicals & materials, in particular in coatings and plastics markets. He has designed market entry strategies into adjacent markets, assessed market potential for new materials, rolled out global…
Lubricant Processing Technology, Petroleum Procurement & Products, R&D and Value Addition
Expert has long research & developmemnt experience in lube stocks refining, both through conventional and hydroprocessing routes, base stocks characterization, blending & additive response studies and upgradation of older lube manufacturing plants to make base oils as per API groups.…
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…
Industrial Chemical Production, Natural Gas Conversion to Liquid Fuels, Fine Chemicals, and Energy e
In general, chemical compounds that have multiple bonds (Double or Triple), they can accept addition reactions. The reaction could proceed either by nucleophilic, or electrophillic addition reactions. In some special cases, it can be controlled either thermodynamically, or kinetically. Activation…
Lubricants, Asphalt Products, and Applications
A career of over 31 years in Research and Development of petroleum products has required numerous field testing of new ideas and new products that Expert was responsible for developing, formulating and implementing. Designing a field test is perhaps a…
Fatigue of Elastomers
Expert managed a tire components development group for a major synthetic rubber supplier for 15 years. During this time he personally established a state-of-the-art fatigue laboratory to assess the fatigue crack growth resistance of various elastomers, compounds, and blends of…