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Expert in Filtration Materials
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Expert has experience using activated carbon, zeolites, and aerogels to remove chemical moieties from fluid streams. He has knowledge of how activated carbon will absorb different materials from fluids based on the precurser activated. He has worked with aerogels to selectively adsorb and/or catalyze specific chemicals from the fluid stream, in essence, acting as a "smart material." Expert has produced chemical warfare barrier fabrics (under contract with US Army Natick Labs) using activated carbon fiber to produce a nonwoven fabric that could be ultrasonically bonded to the shell and inner lining fabrics. Expert's experience with aerogels comes from market development work for a client company finding value-add applications for these materials. Applications being commercialized include blending with metals to extend the useful life of metal filters 4X by preferential sorption of acids, specific adsorption of chemical moieties from water to undetectable levels, and selective gas removal in hot gas environments.
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Expert has worked with chemicals that will adsorb and retain at least 20 times their weight in fluid. These materials are produced from a number of chemistries, including salts of acrylic acid, polyurethanes (polyoxethylene), carboxy-methyl cellulose (CMC), and natural gums (guar, for example). They can be in a number of material formats including powders, fibers, liquids, and others and can be combined to target specific levels of absorption rate, capacity, free swell, and gel strength. Typical applications are baby diaper and feminine hygiene, but they are starting to find homes in a number of industrial applications including filtration, protective apparel, and agricultural markets. Expert believes these industrial market applications are embryonic and of high value-add and are worth the effort of developmental investment. The commercial applications that Expert has developed include SAP materials used to remove water from aviation fuel, phase change materials for moisture control and comfort in apparel applications (both sportswear and protective apparel), and chemical spill products for environmentally protective spill kits.
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While at Fram, Expert developed the Fram ExtraLife air filter material used in carborated engines. He had responsibility for the filter material that became the Wearguard oil filter, judged a Consumer Report's Best Buy. He also developed a high-capacity, high-efficiency transmission filter material from felt that changed the playing field (patent applied for).
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Expert is experienced with fabric materials constructed from fibers without weaving or knitting processes. These fabrics are usually engineered to meet a market need. Typical fabric producing processes are broken out as polymer-to-fabric (spunbond, meltblown, hybrids of these) and polymer-to-fiber-to-fabric (drylaid, airlaid, wetlaid, hydroentangled). Expert has consolidated fabrics using mechanical, thermal, and chemical methods, with product properties very much affected by the product manufacturing techniques selected. He has created and improved many types of nonwovens throughout his career, including airlaid, drylaid, wetlaid, felt, hydroentangled, and spunbonded materials. Expert led a team that received the Allied Corporation Chairman's Award for improvement and cost reduction of the Fram in-house filter media manufacturing program using statistical process control techniques. He also led a team that installed a hydroentanglement line to produce medical fabrics in a foreign country. The line was delivered on-time and within budget and is sold-out today. Expert's nonwovens experience is broad as he has designed, produced, marketed, and sold these products.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Boston, Massachusetts;
Worcester, Massachusetts;
Springfield, Massachusetts;
Bridgeport, Connecticut;
New Haven, Connecticut;
Hartford, Connecticut;
Stamford, Connecticut;
Waterbury, Connecticut;
Manchester, New Hampshire;
and Providence, Rhode Island.
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1978
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MS
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Textile Science
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Clemson University
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1976
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BS
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Textile Science
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Clemson University
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1999 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Independent Consultant
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1997 to 1999
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R&D Knowlton Specialty Papers, Knowlton Nonwovens
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Director
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1995 to 1996
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Dexter Nonwovens
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Business Development
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Manager
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1989 to 1994
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Dexter Nonwovens
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New Processes
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Manager
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1985 to 1989
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Allied Aftermarket
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Advanced Technology
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Director
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1978 to 1985
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Fram Corporation (Allied Aftermarket)
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Project Engineer
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Associations/Societies
An active member of TAPPI, Expert has served as Past Chairman of the Nonwovens Division and was a recipient of the Nonwovens Division Leadership and Service Award. He is also a member of the American Filtration and Separation Society and Chair of the Consultant's Committee and Vice Chair of the New England Chapter.
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Awards/Recognition
Expert received the Allied/signal Chairman's Award for the Airlaid Filter Media Production Project. He was granted the Special Compensation Committee Award from Dexter Corporation for his efforts in the Hydraspun M Installation in Chirnside, Scotland.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Techtextile
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- Filtration News
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- Clemson Nonwovens Forum
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Expert focuses on helping companies with underutilized technologies, patents, and manufacturing capabilities, to grow their businesses into new markets in defendable ways, targeting a two-year headstart in the marketplace. He has done this with specialty fiber suppliers, wetlaid filter media suppliers, extrusion coaters, aerosol manufacturers, and specialty fabric weavers. This has covered all phases of business development, market development, and technical sales of these products, including developing distribution channels for these products.
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Expert has searched and prepared patent disclosures for a number of technical fabric companies, reducing their application costs and accelerating their application process.
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Expert is available for consulting to corporate, legal and government clients.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Material science expert testimony for consulting on armor plating and chemical composition of same.
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Water filter expert for consulting on toxic leak of petro chemicals into well water.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding expert testimony,
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A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
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Expert is free.
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United Kingdom
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Expert lived in the UK for 18 months, working there as project leader for installation of hydroentanglement line in Chirnside, Scotland.
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China
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Expert ran market studies for medical fabrics, tea bag, fibrous sausage casing, and cigarette filter materials and presented a paper at a medical conference in Wei Hei in Shandong Province.
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