Consultant chemical engineer for industrial chemical processes, product development, economic analysis, industrial chemical products, oxidizers, hydrogen peroxide, phosphorus, particle handling

Consultant Chemical Engineer for Industrial Chemical Processes and Products Including Oxidizers, Phosphorus and Sodium Carbonate (1194)

Chemical engineering for H2O2 oxidizers, phosphorus compounds and sodium carbonate.
New industrial process conceptualization, process economics and competitive evaluation.
Chemical engineer consultant for new process and product design and development.
Process equipment operation: solids handling, kiln, crystallizer, spray dryer electrostatic precipitator, electrochemical cells, microreactor technology.
Skilled at process mathematical simulation, heat and mass transfer, use of 'Fluent' CFD code
Hazard analysis and environment remediation,
Separation technology, including protein separation.
Registered Professional Engineer, NJ

Engineering Consultant, 2000 – Present

New process development, environmental abatement, crystallization, aerogel, microreactor development, and solar cell CVD.

Prior to 2000, FMC CORP, SENIOR PRINCIPAL RESEARCH ENGINEER

Principal developer of a high-pressure process to render phosphorus electric furnace solid and liquid waste non-hazardous. Development spanned lab, pilot and design of commercial plant.
Principal developer of a process to produce ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide (less than 1 ppb impurity). Work included lab development through design and operation of actual plant, resulting in additional sales of H2O2.
Principal developer of a process to produce caro’s acid (H2SO5) for use in detoxifying cyanide bearing waste tailings from gold mines.
Technical and economic analysis, including competitor evaluation, for the acquisition of Lithco Corp by FMC Corp.
Designed a hazardous material warehouse to store persulfates.
Mathematical analysis of simultaneous underground tailings disposal and soda ash solution mining to explain behavior of injection wells.
Mathematical simulations, including solar waste lake, traveling grate calciner, self- accelerating rate decompositions including safety implications.
Protein purification by microporous sheets using modified cellulose.
Doubled capacity of crystallizer and improved thermal efficiencies with thermo compressor.
Increased raw material efficiency of cyanurate chlorinators by ~ 20%.
Evaluated theoretical process improvement in stockpile-reclaimer project.
Increased throughput of strontium carbonate

Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Taught classes in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, non-Newtonian flow, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, materials science calculus.

General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY. Research Engineer

Metal/air-cathode fuel cell development including heat exchanger stability analysis.

Over 12 publications and 21 patents issued. Examples:

“Fusion Power- Chemical Engineering View of the Integrated Enterprise.”
“Estimate the Capacity of Simple Batch Processes.”
“Hydrogen Peroxide and Caro’s Acid- Powerful Oxidants for Cyanide Detoxification- A review and case study.”
“The caro’s acid detoxification of cyanide in a gold mine tailings pond- a plant demonstration.”
“Protein purification with novel porous sheets containing derivatized cellulose.”