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Fiber Spinning, Polymer Processing, and Composites Manufacturing
Expert's research in fiber spinning focuses on the development of new processes to improve fiber strength and fiber spinning economics. His group has a great interest in solving grand challenges from the polymer/fiber industry. The approaches his group takes involve…
Carpet Manufacturing
Expert is a textile chemist by education and has extensive experience in the manufacture of polymers, polymer additives, fiber and yarn production, fiber and yarn spin finish design and application. He has have worked with many different types of synthetic…
Plastics Processes: Extrusion, Injection Molding, Blow Molding, Structural Foam Molding, and Training
Expert F Expert has over 55 years of plastics processing experience. His main focus has been extrusion processes using extruders -- twin or single screw -- for compounding, film, sheet, and profile. He has extensive experience with feed screw design…
Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology, Zeolite Technology, Clays, Enviromental Sciences
Mr. Ríos has developed several research and teaching activities on geology topics. He has participated in several field works on crystalline basement complexes in different areas of Colombia, which have contributed to improved understanding of the geology and tectono-metamorphic evolution…
Polymer and Composites Engineering, Manufacture and Usage of these Materials
Expert has extensive experience in the design, manufacture and use of polymeric and composite materials. He has specific expertise in both thermoplastic and thermosetting composites and in the use of composites in the oil and gas industry. His experience includes…
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…
Manufacture of Colour Concentrates and Additive Packages for Thermoplastics
Expert has 35 years experience in technical and marketing disciplines relating to the formulation, production and marketing of coloring systems for thermoplastics. This includes the production of dry color systems, pigment dispersion and concentrates, liquid colors and masterbatches. He has…
Polyamide 6 (PA6) and Polyester (PET) Continuous Filament Yarn Spinning Technology
Expert has been working for 43 years in the polyamide 6 and polyester continuous filament yarns industry in the textile application and in the high tenacity end uses as well. Experience in technological aspects of PA6: polymerization, spinning, high-speed spinning,…
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…
Polymer Chemistry, Optical Polymers, Organic Chemistry
Acrylic resins or "acrylics" as they are more commonly known in the trade, are dominated by a relatively few number of molecules such as butyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate. However by esterifying acrylic or methacrylic acid it is possible to…