Technical Ceramics Consultant: Advanced Structural and Electronic Ceramics Engineering (1594)
Expertise
- Over 35 years experience in the development of medium to high temperature materials and processes.
- Synthesis, processing, fabrication and utilization of high temperature advanced materials, ceramics and composites including nano-size ceramics.
- Specialize in the synthesis, processing, fabrication and application of high temperature advanced materials, ceramics and composites including nanoceramics, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
- Use of advanced ceramic components and composites as parts of industrial equipment for material handling, processing and transfer of hot, corrosive and abrasive fluids.
- Experience with ceramic applications for aerospace and defense fields, oil fields and mining extraction and ore beneficiation, chemical and petroleum industry, pulp, paper and molten metal mills, foundries and plants.
- Teaching and advisory positions for undergraduate and graduate student classes for: Advanced Ceramic Science and Engineering Materials; Powder Synthesis, Processing, Consolidation and Sintering; and Reaction Bonding of Ceramic Materails.
- Thermodynamic and kinetic assessments of reactions and engineered ceramics.
- Development and production of primed and ready compactable premixes.
- Compaction and shaping by single action or cold/hot isostatic pressing, injection molding, hot pressing, green machining and/or secondary grinding.
- Densification by sintering or reaction bonding.
- Analysis, testing and non-destructive evaluation and assessment of advanced ceramics and composites.
- Development of new high performance materials including synthesis, processing, consolidation and application of nano-size ceramics and composites.
- Ceramic and composites synthesis and processing in powder form.
- Production of ready pressable premixes.
- Fabrication-compacting of various structures and geometries by single action pressing, cold, warm and hot isostatic pressing and low, medium and high pressure injection molding.
- Green machining of isostatically consolidated billets and slabs.
- Removal of temporary binders with no damage of the material composition and structure.
- Secondary grinding of bisque fired parts and components.
- Heat treatments for consolidation-densification including sintering, reaction-bonding and co-sintering.
- Dense grinding and finish of fired parts and components.
Experience
Undisclosed Firm, Senior Technical Director, 2007 - Present
Director Technologies, Principal Investigator
Vice President Engineering and Operations
- Development of oxide, nitride, oxy-nitride and carbide materials and components for wear applications in harsh environments such as pulp and paper, and equipment to process, handle and transfer hot, corrosive and abrasive slurries and fluids.
- Management of multi-million R&D budget for development and implementation of new products all the way from lab to pilot and from pilot to fully blown production.
Director Technologies, Principal Investigator
- Synthesis, processing and fabrication of translucent and transparent armor.
- Ceramic gun barrel linings (ID smooth or rifled).
- Exotic powder metals from their oxides through a novel partial carbothermic reduction followed by hot electrolysis technology.
- Carbon-carbon, carbon-ceramic and ceramic-ceramic laminate composites, some by making in situ reinforcements, such as whiskers, fibers and/or carbon nano-tubes (CNT).
- PI & Director SBIR research proposals for contracts in excess of $3 million, annually.
- Tungsten carbide and silicon carbide mechanical seals and seal faces for fluid processing and transfer industries for a production of $16 million in revenues.
- Low pressure injection molding technology to make tungsten carbide complex geometries.
Vice President Engineering and Operations
- Responsible for all technical aspects of company activities including research and development, technology, tests and analysis, manufacturing and fabrication, process and quality control and technical support for sales and marketing.
- Product and engineering development, validation and commercialization from the lab technology to early stage start up and pilot production resulting in introduction/development of product and test of production, controls, equipment, process and quality control tests and specifications.
- Planned, built and managed R&D, production, operations, training and testing laboratory activities.
- Originated and developed Controlled Combustion-Synthesis (CCS) Technologies, including powder synthesis, processing and fabrication of parts and assemblies for thermal and chemical protection systems under high mechanical and friction stress load.
- Developed new ceramics and components for hot slurries (including molten metal) handling and high temperature components, included combustion engine and gas turbine parts and heat exchangers for combustion and nuclear engines.
- Erected, built and run a SiAlON Bonded Silicon Carbide (SBSC) materials and ceramic components pilot plant for production of $6 million annual sales.
Honors & Publications
Academic and Professional Affiliations
- American Ceramic Society, ASM International, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, NY Academy of Science.
- Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, Houston, TX, Shaft Seal Design & Applications Engineering.
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, Transient Regimes-Modeling and Finite Element Analysis.
- Technion Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction Analyses.
- Research Institute Ceramics & Silicates, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, Glass Melting Theory and Practice.
- University of Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Design and Management of Non-Destructive Tests and Analysis for High Performance Ceramic Components.
- Technical School of Building and Construction Materials, Bucharest, Romania, Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena.
- Over 40 technical publications.
- Over 38 technical presentations to various conferences and symposiums in the U.S., Israel and Romania.
- 13 U.S. patents.
Education
- Ph.D. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Technion City, Haifa, Israel
- MBA Management and Industrial Accounting, Bucharest, Romania
- M.S. Quantum Chemistry, Open Ligands, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
- B.S. Industrial Chemistry, Polytechnics University of Bucharest