Expertise

• Chemical engineering for H2O2 oxidizers, phosphorus compounds and sodium carbonate.
• New industrial process conceptualization, process economics and competitive evaluation.
• Chemical engineer consultant for new process and product design and development.
• Process equipment operation: solids handling, kiln, crystallizer, spray dryer electrostatic precipitator, electrochemical cells, microreactor technology.
• Skilled at process mathematical simulation, heat and mass transfer, use of 'Fluent' CFD code
• Hazard analysis and environment remediation,
• Separation technology, including protein separation.
• Registered Professional Engineer, NJ

Experience

Engineering Consultant, 2000 – Present

• New process development, environmental abatement, crystallization, aerogel, microreactor development, and solar cell CVD.

Prior to 2000, FMC CORP, SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH ENGINEER

• Principal developer of a high-pressure process to render phosphorus electric furnace solid and liquid waste non-hazardous. Development spanned lab, pilot and design of commercial plant.
• Principal developer of a process to produce ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide (less than 1 ppb impurity). Work included lab development through design and operation of actual plant, resulting in additional sales of H2O2.
• Principal developer of a process to produce caro’s acid (H2SO5) for use in detoxifying cyanide bearing waste tailings from gold mines.
• Technical and economic analysis, including competitor evaluation, for the acquisition of Lithco Corp by FMC Corp.
• Designed a hazardous material warehouse to store persulfates.
• Mathematical analysis of simultaneous underground tailings disposal and soda ash solution mining to explain behavior of injection wells.
• Mathematical simulations, including solar waste lake, traveling grate calciner, self- accelerating rate decompositions including safety implications.
• Protein purification by microporous sheets using modified cellulose.
• Doubled capacity of crystallizer and improved thermal efficiencies with thermo compressor.
• Increased raw material efficiency of cyanurate chlorinators by ~ 20%.
• Evaluated theoretical process improvement in stockpile-reclaimer project.
• Increased throughput of strontium carbonate

Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

• Taught classes in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, non-Newtonian flow, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, materials science calculus.

General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY. Research Engineer

• Metal/air-cathode fuel cell development including heat exchanger stability analysis.

Honors & Publications

Over 12 publications and 21 patents issued. Examples:

• “Fusion Power- Chemical Engineering View of the Integrated Enterprise.”
• “Estimate the Capacity of Simple Batch Processes.”
• “Hydrogen Peroxide and Caro’s Acid- Powerful Oxidants for Cyanide Detoxification- A review and case study.”
• “The caro’s acid detoxification of cyanide in a gold mine tailings pond- a plant demonstration.”
• “Protein purification with novel porous sheets containing derivatized cellulose.”

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• S.M., Chemical Engineering, MIT
• S.B., Chemical Engineering, MIT