Chemicals Mixing, Reactor Engineering and Filtration Expert

Expertise

• Over thirty years of industrial experience encompassing research and development on bench- scale, pilot scale field testing troubleshooting, supervision, and training.
• Mixing, Reactor Engineering and Filtration.
• Separations; solid to liquid, liquid to liquid and gas to liquid.

Experience

Independent Consultant, 2005 - Present

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Senior Engineering Consultant, 1977 - 2005

• Provided research and development and consulting for all ExxonMobil affiliates worldwide including upstream, downstream and chemicals.
• Participated in several commercial scale tests and plant reactor startups.
• Developed expertise in all areas of mixing in reacting and non-reacting systems including; liquid blending, solids suspension, liquid to liquid emulsification, gas to liquid dispersion and in-line mixing.
• Process development for onshore oil drilling completion fluid (shear-thickening).
• Demonstrated leadership in developing robust filtration systems for solid to liquid and solid to gas systems, specifically hot heavy hydrocarbons.
• Conducted extensive research and development on bench and pilot scale for obtaining design and scale-up data.
• Successfully consulted on wide variety of petroleum and petrochemical processes including; crude storage tanks, product blending tanks, synthetic fuels, polymers, performance chemicals, specialty chemicals; many involving single-phase and multi-phase complex fluids.
• Supervised a group of Ph.D. Engineers on mixing and separations.

Honors & Publications

Publications and Patents

• More than twenty-five papers in Technical Journals and Presentations at Conferences
• Seven patents with four more in process on Mixing and Filtration

Education

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India