Wood Science PhD With Expertise in Particleboard, MDF, and Wood Composites, Including Formaldehyde EmissionsTechnical aspects and production of PB (Particleboard) and MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard).Industrial experience as technical contact providing oversight for particleboard, MDF, plywood, OSB, (Oriented Strand Board) and engineered wood for over two decades.Particleboard process and product improvements, customer service, codes and standards, environmental impacts, and evaluation of new products and materials.Wood dust and formaldehyde compliance issues as they relate to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, OSHA Formaldehyde Stand...

Chemical Engineer for Chemical Plant Process Design and Economic Evaluation: Polybutylene Terephthalate and ButanediolSenior Consultant with ten years of research and design experience in the Process Economics Program of SRI Consulting.Experience includes 8 PEP Reports and becoming a winner of the 1996 Monsanto "Million Dollar Research Challenge" (Competition was International).Preceded experience of over 33 years of diversified research, development, and design work with Dow Chemical, a Fortune 20 company.During this time expertise was demonstrated in creative problem solving in basic and applied research, new product and process developm...

Chemical Manufacturing and Chemistry Educator Specializing in Method Development, Quality Control, Validation in ManufacturingMethod development, troubleshooting quality control, and validation for chemical manufacturing. Linking LIMS (laboratory information management systems) and SAP for integrated lab systems. Laboratory safety. Standard Operating Procedures; staff training and evaluation in testing methods. Construction of internal audit programs for continuing evaluation of laboratory operations. Translation of chemical procedures from German. Malvern particle size (laser diffraction). Color Measurement (Xrite MA68II, Datacol...

Pharmaceutical Dosage Form Process Engineer: Spray Congealing, Spray Drying, Fluid Bed Coating and Fluid Bed GranulationPharmaceutical process and product development.Design and development of unusual and novel pharmaceutical processes and dosage forms.Extensive experience from initial process development to commercialization.Process evaluation - process design, develop, scale-up, robustness, troubleshooting.Mass Transport and unit operations.Extensive experience in unit operations in pharmaceutical processing development to commercialization:GranulationCompressionExtrusion (melt extrusion and continuous granulation)Spray congealingSpray...

Chemical Process Consultant specializing in PVA Technology, Controls Development and Process DevelopmentSpecialist in the areas of chemical process evaluation, troubleshooting and process hazards analysis and chemical engineering scope development.Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA. PVOH) processing technology.Continuous chemical process improvements by systematic analysis, optimization and re-define processes resulting in significant improvements.Chemical process flow sheet and unit operation development.Proven record of innovation and cost savings.Statistical process control design.Uranium conversion technology.

Expert in Monomer Syntheses and Unsaturated Polyester Polymer DevelopmentOrganic chemicals from renewable sources and green chemicals.Organic monomer development.Thermo-set polymers, especially unsaturated polyesters development and applications.Polyesters production process development.Polymer characterization.Pilot plant scale-up.Vinyl polymerizations.Styrene polymer and copolymers.Sun screen chemicals.New product commercialization management.External joint program management.Chemical Technical service for customers.Fluency in Chinese.Independent Consultant, Present...

Expert on process development and manufacture of specialty organics, including synthetic lubricants, phosphate esters, surfactants, biocidesSpecialty organic chemical process developmentConsultant for synthetic lubricants manufacture, specializing on esters and phosphate esters.Surfactant expert: composition, manufacture specializing on phosphate esters.Biocides as wood preservation and disinfectants.Hazards Assessments for chemical batch processesFunctional monomers – acrylate, methacrylate derivatives

Bioprocess Engineering in Technology Transfer, GMP Manufacturing, Scale-Up, FMEA, CAPA for the Pharmaceutical IndustryBioprocess engineering specific to equipment (equipment reliability and maintenance), systems and facilities.Bioprocess validation (aseptic processes, equipment, systems, facilities and cleaning).Technological process scale-up from bench top to pilot and commercial manufacturing.Biological active compounds and nanoparticle based drug delivery systems.cGMP manufacturing of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products.Technology transfer to a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) in Canada and U.S.A.Documentation review...

Specializing in Automotive, Industrial, and Architectural coatings. Expertise in coatings technology, formulation, testing, and commercial marketplace. Expert Witness for coatings tort liability.Expert in paint and coatings technology for Automotive, Industrial and Architectural coatings Expert Witness services in coatings tort liability cases: Expert Reports filed, Deposition and Trial testimony provided Technical support for coatings formulation and application Technical training in paint and coatings technology Polymers, resins, and oligomer development for coatings Structure and property relationships for coating materials Pain...

Petroleum Refinery and Chemical Plant Chemical Engineer with expertise in Design, Simulation, P&IDs, Heat and Material Balances, and Capital Equipment EstimatesPetroleum plant and refiners design and operations in petrochemical and fine chemicals manufacturing plants and processes.Front-end engineering and design including process flow diagrams, P&IDs, heat and material balances and to analyze difficult chemical processing issues.Process simulation using Design II Winsim (Chemshare), Simsci's Process, Aspen, HYSYS and HYSIM.Process simulations experience: Petroleum refining - crude distillation, vacuum distillation, reforming, hydrotreati...