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Engineering, Construction, and Standard of Care
Expert has 25 years of engineering experience working on regional, national and global projects including the design, engineering, construction and commissioning of numerous residential, commercial and industrial facilities. He has provided subject matter expertise in engineering, engineering management, facility design…
Green and Clean Energy: Petrochemical, Refining, and Downstream Chemical and Utilities Sectors: Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, and Plant Startup
Executive summary: Expert has 17 years' experience in the petrochemical, refining, and downstream chemical and utilities sector. His experience includes pre-commissioning, commissioning, plant routine startup, shutdown, and emergency operations. His management roles include service as process trainer and process commissioning…
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Problem Solving
While Expert is a degreed materials engineer and licensed metallurgical engineer, he approaches all assignments as problem-solving projects. Whether it be plaintiff-subrogation or defense litigation, manufacturing and quality optimization, accident investigation, or assistance with team accreditation, he applies his background…
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…
Microwave Heating Technologies and Applications
Expert has 35+ years of experience in microwave heating for consumer, commercial, industrial, and scientific applications. This experience has included engineering and developing standard and custom products, including microwave clothes dryers, vending ovens, single- and multi-mode applicators, batch cavity and…
Rubber Mixing, Formulation, Testing and Chemical Analysis Especially High Natural Rubber and Butyl
Expert offers over 20 years experience working with polymer applications for microelectronics and most recently compounding and mixing rubber compounds for sidewall,inner liner,body-ply skim,Nylon Skim,and abrasion. He has extensive high volume experience optimizing Halo-butyl compounds. I have resurrected techniques to…
DMA/DMTA testing of composites and polymers. Thermal conductivity/resistivity of most materials.
Since the late 1970s Expert has been using and developing DMA/DMTA and also using other thermal analysis techniques too particularly for testing polymers and composites. 1976 to 1981 with Du Pont Instruments then PL thermal Science from 1981 to 1994.…
Analysis, FEA, CFD, Medical Devices, Heat Transfer, Elastomers, Diffusion, Solar, Coupled Systems
Real invention and innovation most often springs from cross-fertilization and analogies from broad experience, quite apart from an entire career in a narrow field. See, for instance, Holyak and Thagard, "Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought". Expert is a broad…
Thermosetting Polymers, Product Development Process, New Business Development
Expert is a nationally recognized authority in thermosetting polymers. He has developed a fundamental understanding of thermosetting polymers including detailed experience in the rheology of curing systems (chemorheology), cure kinetics, physical property measurements, dielectric measurements of curing, and process development.…
Toxicology, Environmental Health and Safety, OSHA Regulatory, Mold, Healthcare and Laboratory Safety
Expert's experience is very broad in the areas of chemicals effects on humans and environmental systems. He has performed academic research on the effects of hazardous chemicals on the lungs, as well as carcinogenic effects of chemicals and air pollutants,…