Catalyst Consultant: Expert in Applied Catalysis for Fischer Tropsch, Dehydrogenation, Amination, Alkylation and Reduction Reactions

Technical Consultant #1419

Applied catalyst consultant: Catalyst technology, catalysis products and catalytic process applications.
Manufacture and commercialization of amines, alcohols and esters by catalytic processes.
Heterogeneous catalyst synthesis on carbon and metal oxide supports, Fischer Tropsch chemistry, dehydrogenations, silica zeolites and alcohol amination.
Reductive amination, alkylation, azo reductions, ring, nitrile, carbonyl, olefinic and ester reduction reactions.

Independent Consultant, 2004 - Present

DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE, Research Fellow, 1968 - 2004

Developed and implemented a commercial process to make 1,12 - dodecanediol.
Developed and commercialized a semibatch synthesis of the C12 dimethylester precursor.
Identified a hydrogenation catalyst for the clean up of mixed C8 - C12 acids.
Resource in nitrobody chemistry related to nitrotoluene explosion in Pascagoula, MS. Part of a Blue Ribbon team to understand and determine the root cause of the incident.
Coordination of thermal and analytical testing on potential explosion scenarios.
Worked extensively with Raney catalysts in nitrile hydrogenation for commercialization of DuPont (now Invista) "Dytek" A and "Dytek" EP multifunctional amine and isophorone diamine specialty products, and reduction of p - phenylenediamine to 1,4 - diaminocyclohexane.
Developed caustic addition to the low pressure commercial synthesis of "Dytek" A that increased catalyst life and "Dytek" A yield.
Developed a successful replacement of Cr with Mo in the "Dytek" A catalyst to reduce Cr as a hazardous waste in high boiler effluent.
Developed a low cost route to p-phenylenediamine, a key monomer intermediate for "Kevlar" aramid synthetic fiber .
The discovery of using AOP (NO/NO2) gas to diazotize aniline in high yield resulted in a low cost salt less process to p-phenylenediamine that is presently practiced at DuPont's Pontchartrain Works.
Involved in the start up of the process to produce phenylenediamine.

Executive Board of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society for six years.
2006 Received the Russell E. Maltz award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society.
Catalysis Club of Philadelphia award for outstanding contributions to the field of catalysis.
32 U.S. Granted Patents, 19 Publications, one edited book