Expert Details
Materials Chemistry and Physics, Environment, Energy, Carbon Sequestration
ID: 730713
Florida, USA
Prof. Expert has been working with hydrogen production and hydogen storage materials for a number of years. He has patents on cabon sequestration and hydrogen production with zero emission. He is an expert in energy production from fossil fuel and its impact on environment.
By training Prof. Expert is a mineralogist (Ph.D. 1967). He is the director of the Center for Extreme Conditions at a major university, where he has high pressure facilities to synthesize diamonds and super hard materials. He has some 40 years of experience of research in this field.
Expert is an expert in physical and chemical thermodynamics. He has written and edited several books and published journal articles (310) in the application of thermodynamics to unsderstand the earth and planetary processes. He can deal with all aspects of thermodynamics.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1967 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Thermodynamics, High pressure | Institution: Uppsala University, Sweden |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1999 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Professor/Director | Department: Mechanical Eng and Materials |
Responsibilities:Expert and Direcor of a research center |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1989 to 1999 | Employer: Uppsala Univesity, Sweden | Title: Professor | Department: Geochemistry |
Responsibilities:Department Chair and Expert |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1973 to 1989 | Employer: City University of New York, Brooklyn College | Title: Professor | Department: Geoscience |
Responsibilities:Expert |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1969 to 1972 | Employer: NASA | Title: Senior Research Associate | Department: Planetary Laboratoy |
Responsibilities:Reseach scientist |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 1989 to 1999 | Country / Region: Sweden | Summary: Expert in University |
| Years: 1981 to 1981 | Country / Region: Italy | Summary: Expert providing expert advise on building a laboratory |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| None at present. Past membership in AGU (American Geophysical Union), MSA (Mineralogical Soc of America) High Pressure Science Society of America |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Multiple |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1994. (The academy is the home of several committees which award many prestigious prizes, including the Nobel Prize). La Laurea Ad Honorem in Scienze Geologiche, Padova University, Italy, 2001. Recipient of the Rudbeck Medal of Excellence in Science,Uppsala University, Sweden 2007. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| 310 jounal articles and 5 books, 4 patents |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Deep knowledge of critical scientific data and thermodynamics as applied to many fields that include energy production and use, industrial properties of materials and processes. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Too many to list over 40 years of teaching |
| Marketing Experience |
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| In the energy area for all power plants that use fossil fuel or plants such as cement and steel which require to sequester carbon. Any industry that uses materials with special properties such as high temperature stability, super hardness, low thermal expansion and new material development. Material synthesis and characterization using X-ray and spectroscopy. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Hindi | Mothertongue |
| Italian | scientific articles |
| Swedish | Fluent speaking and reading, moderate in writing |
Fields of Expertise
chemical synthesis modeling, high-temperature material technology, high-temperature material, high-temperature thermodynamics, aluminum hydride chemistry, energetic material technology, hydride chemistry, hydrogen chemistry, greenhouse, mineralogy, superhard material, chemical equilibrium, enthalpy, entropy, equilibrium, equilibrium thermodynamics, Gibbs free energy, metal thermodynamic property, phase diagram, phase equilibrium, phase equilibrium thermodynamics, reaction thermodynamics, thermochemical property, thermodynamic data, thermodynamic heat balance, thermodynamics, thermophysical property, phase rule, thermodynamic law, nanomaterial, theoretical chemistry, coefficient of linear expansion, coefficient of cubical expansion, environmental waste, metal thermal conductivity, condensed-matter physics, earth science, high-pressure fluid phase equilibrium, metal-oxide solid-state chemistry, thermodynamic process evaluation, carbon modeling, environment, temperature, iron chemistry, carbon chemistry, elemental chemistry, crystallography, science, thermodynamic process optimization, thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, solution thermodynamics, geophysics, state equation, environmental chemistry, emissivity, chemistry