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Paper Manufacturing, Coating, and Recycling
He has expertise in paper and paperboard coating. This includes coating formulations, coating processes, new grade developments, and troubleshooting involved in a wide variety of coated paper and paperboard products. In addition to printability and optical property improvements, he is…
Laser Physics and Applications
Expert has over 45 years of extensive experience in the design, modeling, fabrication, and operation of lasers, using them for measurements and other applications and with laser safety. He is familiar with all types of lasers including excimer lasers, Nd:YAG,…
Process Analysis & Simulation
DECAFFEINATION & OTHER SEPARATION PROCESSES; NONSOLVENT DECAFFEINATION. Expert (prefers "Expert") is a recognized authority in the field of decaffeination. He has many patents involving decaffeination, including two of the basic nonsolvent procedures (water and supercritical carbon dioxide.) In his work…
Product Design, Innovation
Expert has expertise in all aspects of new product design and development. He has been involved in the inception of graduate product design programs at both MIT and Texas A&M University and has extensive consulting experience with both small and…
Chemical Engineering; Pulp & Paper Engineering
Expert (pronounced "Shay") has over 30 years of combined academic and industry R & D experience in the chemical and pulp and paper industries. He has worked in production capacity expansion, cost reduction, new process design, product development, mathematical modeling,…
Applied Statistical Methods
Expert has extensive expertise in the areas of multivariate discriminant and cluster analysis. He was employed for a number of years at NASA/JSC, where he utilized discriminant and cluster analysis techniques to group differing vegetation types on the earth's surface…
Electronic Drive/Power Quality
Expert is concerned with the design, performance, and control of electrical energy conversion devices. He has research, development, and design experience in all types of variable-speed or constant-speed electromechanical drives, including variable-frequency/variable-voltage drives. He designed electric-hybrid, variable-speed drives for automobiles…
Petroleum Refining and Optimization
Expert sold and provided technical service for hydrotreating of naphtha, distillate, gas, oil, and residium feedstocks. He is knowledgeable of new diesel specifications (1990 CAA) and unit optimization. Expert's FCCU experience includes the reactor (riser and bed cracking), regenerator (coke…
CAD, Computer-Aided Design, Mechanism Design, Product Design, Equipment Design
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER-AIDED MECHANICAL DESIGN. Expert has been a 3D CAD user for the past 14 years. He has done recent studies analyzing and justifying his companies migration from 3D wireframe design systems to solid modeling design and simulation systems.…
Environmental & Energy Engineering
ENERGY ENGINEERING; ENERGY AUDITING; FACILITY-WIDE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS. Expert has evaluated energy use and optimization of manufacturing processes of manufacturing and office buildings. He has conducted dozens of energy surveys with the objective of minimizing energy costs. He has made…