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Heat Transfer, Heat Pipes, Cooling Systems, Power Plant Equipment Design, New Product Development
Expert’s interests and experience extend over a wide range of air-cooled heat exchangers. Prompted mainly by the present day environmental concerns and scarce water resources, as well as by the more attractive maintenance-free operation of air-cooled units compared to water-cooled…
Plastic and Coating Stabilization; Controlled Degradation Analysis and Design; Analytical Services
Expert's knowledge in the area of amorphous and crystalline polymers is based on 36 years in the field, having worked with all commercially available amorphous, crystalline, and semicrystalline resins. His knowledge includes physical properties and stabilization at many levels and…
Thin Film Solar Cell Testing; Semiconductor Optoelectronic Device Measurement and Analysis
Expert has been involved in research and development of amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film solar cells for 20 years; in this time he has authored or co-authored over 30 papers. He has guided the optimization of device performance from three…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…
Microbiology, Biotechnology, Cleanroom Microbiology, Sterilization, etc.
As a consultant, Expert has used his broad-based scientific background to work with a variety of clients. These clients have required expertise in such widely divergent subjects as the production of cellulosic ethanol (requiring a knowledge of basic thermodynamics, enzyme…
Contamination Control and Cleanrooms
The relationship between facility cleanliness and product cleanliness, between design criteria and operational conditions is one that even today oftentimes remains a mystery. Particle fallout is the source of visible contamination for contamination sensitive products during storage and assembly. While…
Air, Water and Solid Waste Pollution Control & Energy Recovery in US & Asia
Expert was responsible for the introduction of activated carbon fiber adsorption systems into the U.S. as a licensee of the Japanese firm that developed them. This involved technical liaison with the Japanese as well as sales/marketing to customers. He was…
Fluorine and Silicon Organic Chemical Process Engineering Applications at the Lab and Plant Scale
Expert's 20 years of experience in the Process Engineering Department of Dow Corning Corporation was directed at process technology development and implementation. The development effort encompassed the process idea through thermodynamic studies and lab kinetic studies to get basic reactor…
Extractive-Metallurgy, Hydro-Metallurgy, Pyro-Metallurgy, Inorganic Processing and Soil and Waste Remediation
Expert has been active in the field of extractive metallurgy for more than 60 years. He has developed processes for the recovery of many metals including antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, germanium, gold, lead, lithium, magnesium,…
Optical Coating Design, Optical Coating Production, and Optical System Development
Expert has spent decades designing, developing, and producing optical thin films. He is noted for his understanding of design and producibility of optical coatings. He has worked with most optical vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes and a few chemical…