Petroleum Products Recovery Consultant -- Spent Tire Recovery Processes (1160)
Expertise
Environmental waste product remedies including conversion of byproducts and waste steams to salable products.
Phase transfer catalysis to transform components of byproducts and waste streams into salable products.
Recovery of useful chemical materials from scrapped rubber tires.
Synthesis of radio-compounds and practicing radiation safety.
Consultant in multi-phase petroleum flow systems and corresponding measurements.
Synthesis of small molecules, including modification of polymers.
Consulting on micro-capsules and nano-capsules and ultra-sensitive detection methods for petrochemicals.
Syntheses of several optically pure carbohydrates, chiral processes and absolute asymmetric synthesis.
Synthesis of lineatin and disparlure from mono saccharides.
Synthesizing olefin's from diols via bis-xanthates.
Derivatizing agents containing iodine-124.
Economic scrubbing of methyl bromide using non-hazardous water solution.
Experience
Senior Chemist 2001 - Present
Separation process with phase transfer catalysis.
Focus on reclaiming useful chemicals from spend tires.
PetrAmec, Inc., Exton, PA, President and Principal Scientist 1999 - 2001
PetroTraces, Inc., Houston, TX and Bethlehem, PA, R&D Manager, 1995 - 1999
Principal Scientist and Radiation Safety Officer
AttoChrom/Bio Traces, Inc., Senior Research Scientist, 1993 - 1997
Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Senior Research Associate 1988 - 1992
Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; Visiting Professor 1987 - 1988
Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland, Assistant Professor 1978 - 1987
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK, Postdoctoral Fellow 1976 - 1978
Honors & Publications
Co-author of more than 30 publications, 11 patents and 12 invited presentations.
Selected Publications
Macroscopically chiral system of three independent orientational effects as a condition for absolute asymmetric synthesis.
Optical Activity ex machine: Absolute Asymmetric Separation, Presentation.
Absolute Asymmetric Separation as the Initial Source of Homochirality.
Economic Destruction of Methyl Bromide from Air Streams Using Non-Hazardous Aqueous Solution.
Conversion of Pollutants in Dilute Aqueous Waste Streams to Useful Products: a Potential Method Based on Phase-Transfer Catalysis.
Exhaustive removal of anions from aqueous waste via nucleophilic reactions in the presence of Phase Transfer Catalysts.
Selected Patents
Enhanced chromatography using multi-photon detection.
Apparatus and method for measuring multi-phase flow.
Alkaline free electro less deposition.
Education
PhD., Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
M.S., Technology of Petrochemical Products, Department of Chemical Technology, Warsaw Institute of Technology