Chemical Consultant Specializing in Oxidizers, Phosphorous, and Sodium Carbonate

Technical Consultant #1194

H2O2 oxidizers, phosphorus compounds and sodium carbonate.
New industrial chemical process conceptualization, process economics and competitive evaluation.
New process and product design and development chemical engineer consultant.
Process equipment operation and specialization: Solids handling, kiln, crystallizer, spray dryer electrostatic precipitator, electrochemical cells, and microreactor technology.
Skilled at process mathematical simulation, heat and mass transfer, use of 'Fluent' CFD code.
Hazard analysis and environment remediation.
Separation technology, including protein separation.

Focused Areas

Independent Consultant, 2000 - Present

Consulting in various areas including new process development, environmental abatement, crystallization, aerogel, microreactor development, and solar cell CVD.

Projects and Products

FMC Corporation, Senior Principal Research Engineer

As Principal Developer of a high-pressure process to render phosphorus electric furnace solid and liquid waste non-hazardous. Development spanned lab, pilot and design of commercial plant. ($100 million).
Designer of a process to produce ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide (at the 1 ppb or less level). Work included lab development through design and operation of actual plant. Resulted in $2 million per year added sales of H2O2.
Principal Developer of a process to produce caro's acid (H2SO5) for use in detoxifying cyanide bearing waste tailings from gold mines. Resulted in $2 million per year added sales of H2O2.
Technical and economic analysis, including competitor evaluation, for the acquisition of Lithco Corp by FMC Corp. ($140 million).
Designed a hazardous material warehouse to store persulfates.
Mathematical analysis of simultaneous underground tailings disposal and soda ash solution mining to explain behavior of injection wells.
Mathematical simulations, including: (a) solar waste lake, (b) traveling grate calciner,(c) self-accelerating rate decompositions including safety implications.
Protein purification by microporous sheets using derivatized cellulose.
Doubled capacity of crystallizer and improved thermal efficiencies with thermocompressor.
Increased raw material efficiency of cyanurate chlorinators by 20%.
Evaluated theoretical process improvement in stockpile-reclaimer project ($10 million).
Increased through put of strontium carbonate plant.

Additional Experience

Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1967 - 1970

Instructor for fluid mechanics, heat transfer, non-Newtonian flow, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, materials science.
Taught calculus at R.P.I.

General Electric Co. , Schenectady, NY. Research Engineer, 1965 - 1967

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Graduate Assistant Instructor, 1964 - 1965

Credentials

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Publications and Patents

Author and Co-Author of publications: Peer reviewed journals, book chapters, international symposiums, and encyclopedia series.
21 U.S. patents.