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Carbon and Graphite Materials
Expert is a consultant in the field of carbon and graphite materials, where he leverages 37 years of experience. He specializes in flexible graphite materials for electronics thermal management applications, as well as fuel cells, fire retardants, graphite electrodes, carbon/carbon…
Welding Engineering: Application, Arcs, Laser, Base Metal, Troubleshooting, Pressure, Nuclear, Code
Expert's welding career began in a family-owned welding and radiator repair shop. He progressed to welding on offshore oil and gas platform structures, processing facilities, and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico while an undergraduate engineering student. As a graduate…
Refractory Engineer
Expert is the Founding Director of his company. His family owned a refractory installation company, Quad City Refractories (Coal Valley, IL), and employed him as a mason's apprentice when he was sixteen years old. He worked with QCR as a…
Advanced Materials, Surface Engineering, Powder Metallurgy and Composite Materials
As an expert in Material Science, he specializes in advanced powder metallurgy and wrought materials, including cemented carbides and ceramic-based composites, refractory metals, chromium-based and copper-based materials, titanium and nickel alloys; as well as materials for soft and hard magnetic…
Aerospace, Defense and Industrial Contracts, Negotiation, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
Expert has more than 20 years of international executive experience in leading and transforming Contracts, Procurement and Supply-Chain organisations. As leader and Managing Director of his consulting firm, Expert leads cross-functional expert teams in defining and executing critical and high-stakes…
Materials Chemistry and Physics, Environment, Energy, Carbon Sequestration
Prof. Expert has set up a laboratory where he determines the high temperature property of materials such as melting, thermal expansion and high temperature behavior at extreme conditions. The key word is high temperature refractory material (alloys,ceramics) synthesis and properties.…
Powder Metallurgy, Powder Characterization (e.g., Particle Size and Surface Area Measurement), and Testing
As the manager of a physical testing laboratory for over 25 years, he has applied his physics and metallurgy background to develop expertise in powder metallurgy and mechanical property testing of metals, as well as in various forms of powder…
Glass Technology, Geology and Raw Waterials, Glass Melting Furnaces, Glass Quality
Expert has more than 20 years of experience in glass technology. The first 13 years (1987 – 2001), he was a glass technologist at Verlipack, the (only) Belgian container glass manufacturer at that time (with 3 plants). In 2001 (due…
Iron and Steel Industry: Strategy, Projects & Operation Management, Sintering, Material Handling
Mr. V. K. Expert is a highly accomplished and performance driven, steel Industry professional with 38 years experience, at board level and non-board level positions, in various areas such as business strategy and planning, operations and maintenance management, project management,…
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Expert has extensively worked on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. He has developed new products that enable effective flow control and filtering based on CFD modeling, improving performance up to twice the efficiency compared to previous designs. He has conducted…