Cooling Water, Waste Water, Boiler Industrial Water Treatment Expert

Expertise

• Domestic and international field service and troubleshooting for municipalities, major chemical producers, refineries and petroleum manufactures.
• Boiler and cooling water, chemical cleaning, waste water treatment, process chemical treatment, paper chemicals treatment, oil production chemicals, and municipal water preparation.
• Designed and service water treatment programs (I.e., Isomax) waste heat boilers and cooling system.
• Problem corrections problems from previous activities and vendors, resolved issues caused by flow-assisted corrosion, fatigue corrosion and other related issues.

Refinery and Petrochemical Systems

• Metallurgy, materials selection and equipment design problems.
• -Problems exaggerated due to process contamination.
• Waste water treatment systems, including API separators, DAF systems, IAF systems, and biological treatment plants.
• Recovery of waste water as cooling tower make up.
• Refinery and petrochemical process corrosion and deposition.

Electric Utility Steam Systems

• Economizer, boiler, and super heater deposit and corrosion problems.
• Unusual condensate corrosion problems.
• Steam purity problems.
• Velocity and multiple phase flow-accelerated corrosion phenomena.
• Iron, steel and basic metals systems.
• Low flow, high heat flux applications, blast furnace and continuous caster systems.

HVAC Systems - Commercial and Institutional Structures

• Corrosion, deposition, and biological problems.
• Issues involving improper equipment design and materials selection.

Oil Production Systems-Steam Floods

• Dissolved air flotation systems.
• Clarification and filtration processes.
• Boiler feedwater preparation.
• Cooling and wastewater applications.

Food Processing

• Projects involved boiler, cooling and wastewater processing.
• Litigation and legislative support across all industries.

Expert Witness Experience

• Legionellosis litigation.
• Corrosion in a Boston residential tower.
• Aluminum Boilers.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Principal Consultant, 2004 - Present

• Provides Legionella Risk Management, Expert Witness, and Water Treatment Consulting Services on a nationwide basis.
• Water system performance audits.
• Vendor performance audits vs. specifications.
• Video fiber optic and ultrasound wall thickness inspections.
• Facility water system reliability studies and energy audits.
• Heat exchanger efficiency studies.
• Startup and layup specifications and supervision.
• Inspections of failed equipment.
• Water and deposit sample analysis.
• Analysis and interpretation of log data.
• Forward-looking recommendations.
• Technical literature preparation.
• Complete inorganic and organic analyses.
• Microbiological analyses.
• Metallurgical inspections and testing.
• Resin and membrane testing.
• Legionella bacteria testing.
• On-site customized operator training.
• Custom training presentations.
• Performance oriented water treatment specifications.
• RFP development.
• Evaluations of vendor proposals.
• Chemical formulation analysis and specifications.
• Product development and formulation.
• Field evaluations of new products.

Chemisis, Inc., San Diego, CA

• President and Chairman

Aqua Serv Engineers, Los Angeles, CA

• Vice President, Industrial Group

Zimmite Corporation, Cleveland, OH

• Vice President, Marketing and Sales

Baltimore Aircoil Co., Jessup, MD

Chemicals Marketing Manager

Calgon Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

• Group Manager, Corrosion Inhibitors
• Product Manager, Cooling Water Treatment Chemicals; Assistant Product Manager, Boiler Water Treatment Chemicals

Arco Performance & Betz Entec

• District Manager and Area Manager

Betz Entec & Olin.

• District Representative

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Springdale, PA

• Laboratory Technician, Raw Materials Lab

United States Environmental Protection Agency

• Consultant

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• Post Graduate, Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
• Post Graduate, Business Administration, George Washington University
• PE- California Registered Professional Corrosion Engineer
• Certified Corrosion Specialist, The National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE)
• Certified - USDC/NOAA/FDA joint HACCP Quality Management Program Implementation Specialist

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Cooling Tower Institute (CTI),Various positions: President, Vice President, Chairman of the Water Treatment Committee, and Member of Board of Directors.
• Association of Water Technologies (AWT), former Member of Board of Directors.
• National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), former Vice Chairman, Chairman-Elect of Committee T-7A, Corrosion by Cooling Water, and National Symposium Chairman.
• International Water Conference (IWC), Advisory Board, Recipient of the IWC Award of Merit
• ASME, Member of Thermal Research Committee, Sub-Committee on Industrial Boiler Chemistry.
• AISE, Member.

Publications-Presentations

• Author and Co-Author with subjects; in cooling tower cycles, recirculating treatment water, and synthesis of Benzenes.

Education

• M.B.A. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• B. S. Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA