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Expert 108443

Expert in Catalysis, Petroleum Refining

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Summary of Expertise:

Primary Expertise Areas: (links show more experts in each area)	Expertise Description:
alkene expert alkene catalytic hydrogenation expert alkyne expert alkyne catalytic hydrogenation expert amine treating expert catalytic hydrogenation expert hydrodesulfurization expert hydrogenation expert isomerization expert oil catalytic hydrogenation expert petroleum expert petroleum engineering expert petroleum hydrotreating expert petroleum processing expert petroleum refinery expert	Expert has over 30 years of experience working in all phases of petroleum hydrotreating and (deep) hydrogenation operations in petroleum refining and chemical production. His work covers hydrorefining for impurities (sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and metal) removal from a variety of feedstocks. He is proficient with selective or total hydrogenation of alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics. He has experience in designing flow plans, making choice of best operating conditions, catalysts, and reactor designs for most operations. He can assist in problem analysis and troubleshooting in complex units.
caustic washing expert petrochemical catalysis expert petrochemical operations expert	Expert has worked with a variety of amine treating plants for H2S, CO2, mercaptan removal by scrubbing or washing, and liquid or gas streams with alkanol amines and caustic soda solutions. He has worked with streams from crude oils/natural gas, catalytic cracking and thermal coking or steam cracking. He can specify the best operating conditions and can troubleshoot and solve the frequent operating problems in amine and caustic treating units in refineries and chemical plants.
catalytic reforming expert petroleum refining catalysis expert refined fuel expert	Expert is totally familiar with all major refining operations for conventional sweet or sour crude oil, bitumens, field condensates, and natural gases. He possesses thorough knowledge of complex refinery operation to troubleshoot problems and choose best operating conditions.
catalytic cracking expert thermal cracking expert	Expert has worked with fluid catalytic cracking, delayed coking, fluid- or flexi-coking, and other thermal cracking units. He has theoretical and practical knowledge of field operations and downstream refining processes. He can design, operate, supervise, and troubleshoot catalytic and thermal cracking units.
steam cracking expert	Having worked in steam cracking operations for over 15 years, Expert is familiar with units which crack single or multiple feedstocks such as ethane, LPG, naphtha, gasoline, oils, and gas oil fractions. He specializes in pyrolysis gasoline treating units, selective alkyne, diolefin hydrogenation, cryogenic trains, and other specific areas. He currently consults with several units in many aspects of steam cracker operation, product purification, and quality control areas.
gasoline expert petroleum hydrodesulfurization expert	Expert has wide experience in processes involved with production of high octane gasoline, namely hydrodesulfurization, and platinum reforming. He has worked with oxygenate production for lead free gasoline, gasohol requirements, and etherification processes for oxygenate production by ion exchange resin catalysis.
shape-selective catalysis expert	Expert has extensive experience with several plants and processes using Mobil's "ZSM" and other shape-selective catalysts for Xylene isomerization, parex processes, and production of linear paraffins from kerosene by molecular sieve separation.
zeolite catalyst expert	Expert has worked on developing zeolite catalysts for various operations. Four of his patents deal with inventions in zeolite catalysts.
off-site catalyst regeneration expert	Expert has worked with process catalysts regenerated off-line by air burn and has assisted one of the vendors in identifying new markets in the chemical industry to fill plant capacity. In the past four years, Expert has worked with the US EPA Department World Environmental Center (NY) as a consultant, both as a volunteer and on contract. He has also worked in Eastern European countries and former USSR-republics (CSA) in areas of waste minimization, pollution prevention, and process/ profit improvement.
Show Only Primary Areas of Expert Consulting *Secondary Expertise* acid catalysis, aluminum oxide, aluminum oxide catalyst, amine, amine catalyst, aromatic compound, aromatic compound catalytic hydrogenation, base catalysis, catalysis reagent, catalyst, catalyst mechanism, catalyst recycling, catalyst regeneration, catalyst support, catalytic oxidation, cationic catalyst, caustic treating, chemical process inhibitor, chemical processing, chemical production, coal-and-syngas catalysis, coking, crude oil, dehydrogenation, energy-efficient petroleum refining, fat catalytic hydrogenation, ferric oxide, fluid catalytic cracking, fluid catalytic cracking unit, free radical catalyst, Friedel-Crafts reaction, gas scrubber, gas scrubbing, gasohol, gas-phase catalysis, gas-saturated oil, heterocyclic chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous transition metal catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, hydrocracking, hydrogen, hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen sulfide abatement, hydrogen sulfide removal, hydrolysis, hydroxide compound, ion-exchange resin, isomer, Lewis acid, methyl-tert-butyl ether, multicomponent catalyst, nitrogen removal, oxygen removal, oxygenate, palladium catalysis, palladium catalyst, palladium homogeneous catalysis, petrochemical, petrochemical process, petrochemical reactor, petrochemical-related design, petroleum catalytic recycle stock phenol extraction, petroleum production, platinum metal, pyrophoric, pyrophoric metal-alkyl catalyst, refinery operations, sodium, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, sweet crude, synfuel, thermal reforming, thiol compound, transition element, transition metal catalysis, transition metal catalyst, zeolite *Basic Expertise* carbon dioxide, chemical reaction, chemistry, coordination compound, esterification, etherification, ferrocene, fluid coking, homogeneous transition metal catalysis, hydrazine, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen bromide, hydrogen fluoride, liquefied petroleum gas, market trend, molecular sieve, molybdenum disulfide, natural gas, nitro compound catalytic hydrogenation, nitroso compound catalytic hydrogenation, organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, palladium recovery, physical chemistry, pollution catalysis, thermal polymerization, trifluoroacetic acid, Ziegler polymerization, Ziegler-Natta catalyst

Education:

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
1962	PhD	Physical Chemistry	University of Alberta
1953	BSc	Chemical Engineering	Bombay University (India)

Work History:

Years	Employer	Title
1992 to 2000	Chem Tech Consulting	Consultant
1962 to 1992	Esso Chemicals, Canada, and Exxon Chemic	Senior Research Associate
1956 to 1957	Geigy Pharmaceutical	Process Engineer
1953 to 1956	Vicose Rayon Corporation	Process Engineer

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Associations/Societies

He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Publications and Patents

Expert is the author/coauthor of 14 US patents in various fields covering catalysis, process invention, novel additive production, and pollution control processes. He has written 12 papers in various technical journals, one of which was judged as the best of the year (1974) by the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Oxidative Dehydrogenation).

Consulting Services:

As a member of the Intota consultant network, Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Catalysis Consultant, Petroleum Refining Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company, or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract. Ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, by simply submitting an expert request.

Expert Witness:

Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support, forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation, and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as a Catalysis Expert Witness, Petroleum Refining Expert Witness. Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.

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Description

Expert speaks and reads Dutch and reads German and French. He worked for Exxon in Western Europe for 12 years in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, and France.

Market Research:

Expert serves as a resource to Intota Market Research Services for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to Catalysis, Petroleum Refining. Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.

Additional Skills and Services:

Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection

Expert has experience locating vendors of catalysts for petroleum and chemical processes.

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