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Chemical Process Engineering
Expert has over 40 years of experience as a process engineer and project manager on new facilities for food, flavors, fragrances, fine chemicals, resins, and tall oils. He has taken the lead in driving R&D and manufacturing groups toward efficiency…
Food Product Development: Organic Nutritional Products; Sports Nutrition. Non-Meat Products.
FOOD FORMULATION; FOOD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; FOOD PRODUCT PROCESS DEVELOPMENT. Expert has extensive experience in food product development. He performs initial concept literature and patent searches and summarizes the results. He then develops a final marketing or medical concept formulation for…
Reactor Thermal Testing
THERMAL TEST. Expert has 38 years experience in the thermal hydraulic testing of simulated nuclear fuel and reactor recirculation systems. The range of these tests included steady state and transient critical power, assembly pressure drop, two-phase stability, subchannel flow and…
Food Product Formulation
Expert has co-developed and used fat mimetics in a wide variety of food products, specifically dairy, snack, and bakery products. He also has experience with foods such as frozen deserts, convenience foods, prepared foods, salad dressings, fillings, and dips. Expert…
Polymer Selection for Food, Automotive, and Electronic Markets
Expert has an in-depth understanding of the high-pressure synthesis copolymerization of ethylene with combinations of co-monomers such as acrylates, vinyl acetate, (meth)acrylic acid, and carbon monoxide. His knowledge results from the high-pressure pilot plant work performed under his direction to…
Plastic Molding Processes
Expert has extensive experience with plastic molding processes and with injection molding in particular. He is often called upon to help clients with issues such as injection molding machine selection, injection mold lubrication, and in-mold labeling. He has been responsible…
Semiconductor Technology
Since 1960, Expert (pronounced rye-chowdree) has made extensive contributions to materials and semiconductor technology. During his early years with Westinghouse, he conducted pioneering work in the areas of silicon epitaxy, selective epitaxy, and polysilicon. He has made significant contributions in…
Plastics Fracture Mechanics, Plastics Service Performance, Plastics Wear, Plastics Friction
Expert has developed a criterion for the prevention of rapid crack propagation in plastic pipes. He developed a formula for calculating slow crack propagation as a function of the stress intensity factor. He developed a method of prediction of ductile-brittle…
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
Expert has been involved in the development of a number of features for these devices. These include the dual cell, programmed swept radio frequency excitation, external ion injection, and mass separation. He has also been able to utilize this concept…
Chemical Engineering, Enzymes
Expert has spent the majority of his professional career developing and refining the use of chemical engineering techniques to design biochemical reactors holding enzymes and microbial cells. Expert is an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Employer's Chemical Engineering program.…