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Fluid Sealing Technology
SEALS; MECHANICAL SEALS; LIP SEALS; FACE SEALS. Expert's primary expertise is in the area of fluid sealing technology, a branch of tribology. He specializes in mechanical seals (or face seals) for pumps, compressors, and other turbo machines, and lip seals…
Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Powders and Single Crystals
Expert has used microencapsulation as a method to prepare multicomponent ceramic powders containing two to five components. He developed (and is in the process of patenting) the first dry microencapsulation process that also can be used as a granulation method.…
Multiphysics Modeling and Data Analysis
Expert has an extensive background in electrical, electronics, and physics-based Multiphysics model development techniques and materials-related considerations. He has written and published 4 college-level step-by-step textbooks on modeling application techniques. He applies his extensive experience to satisfy his client’s design…
Reactive Metals
A significant portion of Expert's career centered on the reduction of titanium tetrachloride, using magnesium and/or sodium to obtain titanium metal. In particular, one portion was involved with the high-capacity production of molten titanium directly via a flow reactor. This…
Fluid Flow Systems/Heat Transfer Equipment/Porous Media Flows/Thermal Management
FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID BOUNDARY LAYER. Expert has spent much of his career solving Euler, Navier-Stokes, and Bernoulli equations For their application to complex flow fields such as gas and liquid jets, channel flow design, turbulence, flow separation and mixing processes,…
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,…
Industrial Ventilation
INDUSTRIAL VENTILATION SYSTEM DESIGN; FUGITIVE DUST CONTROL; EMISSION MODELING. Expert has expertise in the design of industrial ventilation systems. He is very knowledgeable regarding control of fugitive dust by windbreaks, control of contaminants from open vessels, viscous turbulent flow in…
Analytical Chemistry, data analysis, liquid and gas chromatography and chemical separation science,
CHROMATOGRAPHY. For the past 35 years, expert has specialized in many different sub-fields of chromatography, including HPLC, reversed phase LC, gas chromatography, affinity chromatography, and ion chromatography. He has published extensively in all of these fields. Additionally, he has pioneered…
Ceramics: Fabrication, Fracture, Powder Dispersion, Alumina, Nano-materials; Tapecasting, Creep, Sintering
Expert has been involved in ceramic processing since 1973. He served as a member of the research staff of the MIT Ceramic Processing Center. He has taught a graduate course at Rutgers University entitled "Colloid Chemistry of Slip Casting" since…
Water Soluble Polymers and Surfactants
During his career, Expert has been intimately involved in the synthesis, scale-up, and applications of hydrophilic polymers. He has experience with natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic polymers, with major application areas such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, textile-finishing, and mastics. His research group…