Chemical Engineering Economic Evaluation Consultant

Expertise

• Global chemical economics, chemical price and cost trends; chemical econometric forecasting.
• Estimating completive manufacturing costs and impact on P&L statements.
• Long term impact of inflation, energy, labor and raw material clauses in supply contracts.
• Chemical process design and and project and process economics.
• Learning curves (Experience Curves) applied to chemical and manufacturing costs, chemical prices and equipment cost and prices.
• Glycidol and glycerine process.
• Hydrogen via steam reforming.
• Peroxygen chemicals and peroxygen chemical production.
• Alkyl phenols and organic phosphates.

Experience

Independent Consultant 2002 - Present

FMC

• Consultant to FMC, Economic Evaluations
• Process Design, Project Management, Venture Management

DuPont, Process Design and Plant Engineering

• Process design, sodium perborate, sodium cells, sodium cyanide.
• Film coating and photo emulsion development.
• Microcrystalline alumina.
• Glycerin process, acetic anhydride.
• Alkyl phenols.
• Chlorinated cyanuric acid.
• Specialty chemicals, including organic phosphates, peroxygen compounds and hydrogen peroxide projects.

Honors & Publications

• Three US Patents related to glycidol and glycerine processes.
• Adjunct Professor, Drexel Univ., 1978-2002; Advisor, Process Design Course
• AIChE, Management Division Committee

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, MIT
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
• P.E. Professional Engineering License, NY