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Food Protection: Defense & Safety: Sorbic Acid; Microbial Quality, HACCP, FDA FSMA
Expert has devoted a major portion of his career to research and teaching related to food safety issues, especially food microbiology. A special emphasis has been directed at new and traditional preservation techniques and how their modification and application influence…
Cooling Systems for People & Equipment: HVAC Design and Climate Testing, HVAC Trouble Shooting, etc.
Expert has expertise in the design and operation of air conditioning systems and related processing systems. His experience includes systems for rail cars, buses, television production vehicles, ships, aircraft, and high altitude unmanned planes. As a systems engineer he has…
X-Ray Imaging
Expert is the inventor, designer, and project scientist/program manager of a number of different X-ray imaging systems, ranging from satellite-based X-ray telescopes to large systems for nondestructive imaging of 50 ton rocket motors and nuclear pressure vessels. Expert has both…
Chemistry of Materials
APPLIED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Expert has extensive experience in applied inorganic chemistry. Using new sol-gel methods that employ hydrogen peroxide, Expert has made a variety of ceramics and minerals, for example, forsterite, enstatite, and members of the olivine family. Sols (colloidal…
Food Mycotoxicology, Mold, Aflatoxins, Toxicology
FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; MYCOTOXICOLOGY. Expert has expertise in food microbiology, mycology, and mycotoxicology. His major research interests have included food poisoning bacteria, foodborne pathogens, food safety, and food processing to control potentially hazardous micro-organisms. He has conducted research with molds…
Carbohydrate Chemistry: Starches and Gums
Expert has extensive experience as a researcher, reference book editor, consultant, and teacher of starch polymer and granule structure and chemical modification. He is familiar with granule structure, behavior, properties, modification, and applications in a broad range of products (food,…
Chemical Engineering
Expert has taught a course in air pollution control at BYU about a dozen times in the past 22 years, a course which he organized. He has general experience in the design of air pollution control systems and has specific…
Cavitation and Hydroacoustics, Hydropower & Energy, Turbine Testing, etc.
Expert is recognized as an international authority in the field of cavitation and has more than 35 years of research experience in this area. This has involved laboratory studies of various phases of cavitation, cavitation erosion and noise, and field…
Biocides, Industrial Antimicrobial Agents
INDUSTRIAL MICROBICIDES. The areas of Expert' greatest current activity and most significant career experience and expertise are the product development and application of industrial antimicrobial agents. He provides expert technical assistance in the chemistry and microbiology necessary to the selection…
Carbon Clusters, Doped Semiconductors, Chemical Impurity Material, etc.
Expert has theoretically studied various carbon clusters since 1985. The work included modeling of the aggregation of carbon vapor, studies of the dynamics and formation of C60 and other fullerenes, computation of band structure and doping properties of buckytubes, and…