Consultant specializing in combustion and waste management processes for industrial and municipal waste.

Consultant Specializing in Combustion and Waste Management Processes (1131)

Independent Consultant: Specializing in combustion and waste management processes. Key projects:

Debottlenecking (mechanically, then via permit modification) liquids incinerator, effectively doubling capacity
Initiated diversion of clean hazardous waste liquids to boiler house, to increase net site incineration capacity and reduce usage of fossil fuels; currently pursuing BIF permit
Tune up and capacity improvement, fume incinerator; accommodating 50% increase in throughput while increasing on stream time 10% and reducing costs $50K per year
Trial Burn planning and coordination, rotary kiln and liquid incinerators; two commercial incinerators and two “captive” units
Technology Assessments; plasma; municipal waste incineration options
Burner modifications at large crude oil heater for various industrial clients

Rollins Environmental Services, Wilmington, DE, Senior Process Engineer

Internal consultant to operating facilities on all aspects of incinerator operation. ~Involved in general 'technology outreach' for company, assessing opportunities and new technologies.
Performed wide variety of emissions and capability testing, including phosphorus, fluorine, metals and particulate matter.
Wrote and/or managed three major Trial Burn and/or Air Testing programs.

General Chemical Corporation, Claremont, DE, Manager, Maintenance and Engineering

Managed project design and construction, along with maintenance function, in a plant manufacturing sulfuric acid and a wide variety of sulfur-based products.
Developed strategic capital plan to increase capacity and reliability of sulfuric acid plant.
Managed maintenance program to drastically reduce failures in furnace refractory and waste heat boiler unit operations.

Rhone-Poulenc Basic (fomerly Stauffer) Chemical Corp., Houston, TX, Technical Manager

Managed $10 million annual capital budget and laboratory services, with particular concentration on personnel development.
Constructed hazardous waste 'co-incineration' facilities in Sulfuric Acid regeneration plant.
Erected new water treatment plant, replacement waste heat boiler, and hazardous waste tank farm.
Demolished two abandoned acid plants. Developed emission abatement plans for two sulfuric acid units.

Stauffer Chemical Company, Henderson, NV and Delaware City, DE, Engineering

Managed engineering, energy, and environmental operations at each plant for various terms. Plants produced chlorine/caustic and carbon disulfide with a Claus H2S recovery unit.
Generated and submitted RCRA Part B applications for each. Shepherded Delaware application through to approval for TSD at site.

BS (cum laude), Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY