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.