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Has 16 issued patents in the field of water and wastewater treatment, including membrane, electrochemistry, ion exchange, softening, adsorption, zero discharge, chromatographic separation of mixed metal wastes. Also has multiple pending patents in emerging water technologies including Forward Osmosis, Low energy desalination, high volume solar desalination, Capacitive Deionization.

His expertise is in developing innovative solutions that optimize each wastewater stream's treatment.
His experience in industrial wastewater covers plating shop wastewater, semiconductor wastewater, and high organic contents wastewater from food processing, agricultural and dairy/poultry farms, wineries and breweries.

He has designed, built and installed many ion exchange, and electrochemical systems that include electrodialysis cells for selective removal of inorganic contaminants as well as electrodeionization of reverse osmosis permeate to achieve high purity water for industrial use.

He has over 25 years experience in integrating and designing complete systems with a broad water treatment technology base. Has built and sold three companies based on his own patents.


Expert has 4 issued and multiple pending patents in the field of catalysis. He has developed new, innovative catalysis techniques to improve yields and reduce energy input to traditionally high energy consuming reactions, such as Reforming. He has invented and patented a unique technique based on creating electronic perturbations in the area of the catalyst to enhance performance. His process is being tested for micro and mini chemical plants, especially Gas To Liquids (GTL) processes using the Fischer Tropsch process.

He has worked extensively on use of graphitic nanofibers and nanotubes as catalyst substrates. In the development of disruptive catalysis processes, he has gained valuable knowledge about the known and not so known characteristics of catalysts. His tried methods include nanometer thick layers of transition metals on graphitic nanofibers using electroless plating and vapor deposition techniques.

He has designed and licensed a mass production fluidized bed CVD reactor to catalytically crack methane and syngas into graphitic nanofibers and nanotubes. He has recently developed a higher efficiency CVD reactor with multiple reaction zones, producing over 250 grams of nano materials per gram of catalyst.

Expert has designed, and commissioned a Biodiesel plant in Malaysia. He has filed for 2 patents for the unique integration of esterification and transesterification using Hydrodynamic cavitation, solid acid/base catalysts and adsorbents. Expert has extensive design and pilot plant experience with various techniques through which methyl or ethyl esters of fats and vegetable oil wastes can be produced. His adsorption experience from water treatment has enabled him to custom design specialty polymers and adsorbents with controlled pore sizes and ionic strengths to separate nutrients from palm oil, such as tocopherols, carotenoids, etc., eliminating use of fractional distillation to reduce costs dramatically. Specialty adsorbents have been piloted successfully.

In his 25 year career with water treatment, he has worked with many biological systems for aerobic and anaerobic treatments. He is currently involved with a patented draft tube Moving Bed Biological Reactor that eliminates pulverization of the biofilm common in other MBBRs, drastically reducing sludge volume and eliminating coagulation and flocculation chemicals.

Expert is more focused on the practical aspects of nanotechnology and NOT theoretical papers and modelling topics. His activities and achievements have been in the actual manufacturing, applications, pilot testing and commercialization of nanomaterials. His approach is more of an engineer than a research scientist or academic. His activities have not included hypothetical applications that will come in the far future, or filing of impractical patents. He has dedicated his time to focus on what is viable and feasible NOW.

He has been involved with nanomaterials since 2006. His endeavours in paradigm shifting catalysis techniques necessitated a thorough knowledge of the characteristics of nano materials, especially those used as catalyst substrates. Besides the characterization, he had to overcome the major hurdle of producing nanomaterials at a low cost. To this end, he has to date, designed two fluidized bed CVD reactors that produce nano graphitic fibers at the cost of crystalline graphite. He has also worked on exfoliation of graphitic nanofibers to graphene using Super Critical CO2 and surfactant functionalized graphene platelets.

He has utilized the materials to develop and launch disruptive technologies such as an electrically activated catalysis system improving performance by improving selectivity and reducing energy consumption and a capacitive deionization system that promises to be a lower waste, lower energy alternative to reverse osmosis.

He has 4 issued patents for using nanomaterials in catalysis, a pending patent for use of nanomaterials in the Capacitive Desalination system and has authored 2 patent applications for use of graphitic nanofibers as carriers of crosslinking agents and activators for chemical reactions.

He has extensive experience in pilot testing of nano materials as fuel cell anodes, reducing platinum loading by 80%, as Li-ion battery anodes, reducing polymer electrolyte/graphite interface reactions and increasing Li ion mobility; resulting in less capacity drop and faster charging.

He is currently writing a book on the practical applications and low cost manufacturing of nanomaterials that are possible NOW.

He has consulted a business entity for the development of nanoparticles of Aniline as nanotube composites for supercapacitor electrodes. He has consulted a Waste To Energy (biomass to liquids) company for design, formulation and operating parameters of Gas To Liquids (GTL) portion using Fischer Tropsch Nanocatalysts.He has consulted for improvement in design for MBBR (Moving Bed Biological Reactors) for use as anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment systems. Expert witness in multiple water treatment systems arbitration. These were mutual arbitration discussions, not court based cases.He has consulted for a Data Center provider for reduction of energy consumption to reduce PUE (Power Utilization Efficiency) from 2.0 to 1.2.