Petroleum Industry Thermodynamic Modeling Consultant

Expertise

• Thirty-five of years experience in applied thermodynamics with expert knowledge in thermodynamics research and development for downstream applications.
• Thermodynamic models for computer prediction of thermodynamic properties needed for process development and design.
• Advanced thermodynamic computer models of chemical reactors, synthetic fuels, and heavy crude conversion.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Present

Research and Development Consulting

• Focused activities in predicting and correlating and phase equilibria, with particular interest in cryogenic systems and equations of state.
• Determining activity coefficients determination for nonideal systems, especially in distillation applications.
• Thermodynamic models tailored for advanced computer models of chemical reactors, synthetic fuels, and heavy crude conversion.
• Prediction of solid solubility in nonideal systems.
• Development of unified thermodynamic models for difficult petrochemical systems.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Participated actively in the chemical engineering thermodynamics community and has published.
• Adjunct Professor, Manhattan College, City College of New York, Stevens, NJIT, and Columbia with over Forty semesters of experience teaching graduate level thermodynamics.

Education

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• B.S. Chemical Engineering , Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH