High Temperature Chemical Processing Consultant with Expertise with Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) (634)

Expertise

  • High temperature processing (kilns, furnaces, fluid beds) on laboratory and plant scale at temperatures between 400 C and 1500 C.
  • Titanium dioxide (TiO2) process engineering including production of titanium tetra chloride (TiCl4).
  • Engineering of high pressure and high temperature reactor equipment, including materials to withstand corrosive materials at high temperature operations.
  • Experienced with hydrothermal inorganic reactions and air oxidation of organics on semiworks scale.
  • Experienced with TiO2 particle size reduction equipment, fine particle grinding, and pelletizing and briquetting on laboratory, semi works, and plant scale.
  • Worked on TiO2 particle classification, particle screening, slurry thickening, slurry filtration and dewatering of slurries and inorganic suspensions.
  • Skilled with reaction kinetics and mechanisms, particularly at high temperatures.
  • Experience with chemical metallurgy of uncommon metals, semiworks and plant for high temperature corrosive operations and production of TiO2..
  • Worked with Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids for mixing, pumping and flow predictions.

Experience

  • Chemical engineering consultant, specializing in high temperature chemical processes and controls.
  • Over 42 years in Research and Development, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Industrial Chemicals, Explosives and Pigments Departments.
  • Start-up of a new titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment plants.
  • Experienced milling and grinding inorganic materials, pigments and TiO2.
  • Chemical engineering and fluid flow for pigment slurries with non Newtonian flow.
  • Skilled in chemical engineering from laboratory to semiworks to full scale plant.
  • Specific expertise in materials for high temperature corrosive environments.

Honors & Publications

PUBLICATIONS:
  • Three patents on fibrous inorganics and two on process control of a chlorination process.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • American Chemical Society

Education

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
  • B.S., M.S., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University
  • Short courses and audited courses on a continuing basis, including : Multiphase ~Hydrodynamics (1995) and Mixing (1996)
  • Professional Engineering registration, Delaware P.E.