Chemical engineering consultant

Chemical Engineering Consultant (1152)

2004 - Present Consultant

2000 - 2004 Akzo Nobel Chemicals Inc., Central R&D Center, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Technical development and support for specific product lines. Competitor technology intelligence for specific markets.
Optimization and troubleshooting of manufacturing processes.
Coordination of design, procurement, and construction of pilot plants in support of development of specific products and markets.

1995 - 2000 FMC Corporation, Chemical R&D Center, Princeton, New Jersey

Process research and development for the purification of new products. Design of pilot plants for scale-up and process specifications. Modeling of chemical processes by simulation. Economic analysis of new ventures.
Participation in engineering teams for the evaluation and certification of engineering contractors for new commercial units.
Developed and pilot-plant tested liquid-liquid extraction processes to purify phosphoric acid and elemental phosphorus.
Developed and specified a new reaction process to manufacture an FMC phosphate product for the food industry following GMP protocols.
Conducted basic engineering, pilot plant trials, and economic analysis of a melt crystallization process for an ultra-high purity product and for a reverse osmosis processing of lithium brine.
Specified a commercial process and equipment for the manufacture of an FMC proprietary sorbent used in the production of lithium compounds.

1983 - 1994 IBM Corporation, Endicott Technology Laboratory, Endicott, New York

Project management and economic analysis of testing programs for the commercialization of new products and chemical processes.
Evaluation and certification of engineering contractors and equipment suppliers in the commercial implementation of chemical processes.
Process research, development, and engineering of chemical processes for the fabrication of printed wiring boards (PWB).
Defined and specified chemical processes for the recycling of chemicals in the fabrication of PWBs, yielding recycling efficiencies of 98%; operation and disposal cost reductions of 10% and 35% respectively.
Designed, specified, and supervised the operation of pilot plants to define process parameters in the fabrication of hardware for computers.

1973 - 1976 Fertilizantes Fosfatados Mexicanos, S. A. de C. V., Manufacturing Site, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

Process engineering in support of production of process and steam water, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid (fertilizer grade), granulated superphosphate fertilizer, and food grade phosphoric acid.
Chemical engineering operations included: air drying with sulfuric acid, reaction from elemental sulfur to sulfur trioxide, absorption-reaction of sulfur trioxide to fuming sulfuric acid, phosphoric rock milling, reaction of phosphoric rock with sulfuric acid, gypsum filtration, organic matter settling, centrifugation, and filtration, phosphoric acid evaporation, liquid-liquid extraction of phosphoric acid.