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Expert in Ozone Technology and Applications: Food, Air, and Water Treatment; FDA Codes: Food Additives
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Expert has experience consulting in the field of ozone technologies as applied to drinking water treatment and point-of-use drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, process water treatment, and odor control. He is involved in detailed literature surveys on ozone topics and conducts market studies and regulatory analyses in relation to the use of ozone in various kinds of water treatment, including the treatment of swimming pool water. Expert lectures to private clients on ozone technologies and acts as a consultant to municipalities and consulting engineering firms interested in applying ozone. His experience includes ozone destruction and removal, as well as water pollution, ultrapure water, and the use of ozone, carbon dioxide, and activated carbon in industrial waste water treatment and feedwater treatment.
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Expert is an authority in the interpretation of EPA environmental regulations and statutes and the Safe Drinking Water Act. He is also an expert in FDA codes in relation to food additives.
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Expert has written papers and lectured on ozone advanced oxidation processes. This involves ozone in combination with UV radiation, hydrogen peroxide, and other techniques for forming and utilizing the hydroxyl free radical to provide oxidation above and beyond what molecular ozone by itself will accomplish.
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Ozone is one of the most powerful disinfectants available to mankind. It has been used for water disinfection since the early 1900s. There is a remarkable relationship between ozone's ability to disinfect and its ability to produce oxidation byproducts during its use as a disinfectant. In order to understand ozone's disinfection capabilities, it is equally important to understand the chemistries and modes of action of all other disinfectants that may compete with ozone.
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Byproducts of disinfectants, such as ozone, are very important to understand, when considering use of ozone (or any disinfectant) to treat any medium. Expert has participated in the "disinfection byproduct" area ever since the early 1970s finding that trihalomethanes may pose a public health problem in drinking water. He has written review papers on disinfection byproducts involving ozone, chlorine, chlorine dioxide, and chloramine. In the mid to late 1980s, Expert lectured on this subject to audiences assembled by the EPA Office of Drinking Water.
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Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1973, Expert has been involved with the EPA's development of drinking water treatment regulations. His primary interest has been to assemble information on the known applications of ozone for treating drinking water for submission to the U.S. EPA so as to allow for improved bases for drinking water regulation development.
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In order to collect and provide information on ozone treatment of drinking water, one must understand all aspects of potable water treatment. Expert has visited perhaps 100 or so European, Canadian, Japanese, and Singaporean drinking water treatment plants, and reported on their procedures, particularly with respect to their use of ozone. He also has participated in several EPA Office of Drinking Water Committees, providing consultation on applications of ozone in water treatment.
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In 2001, a Food Additive Petition written by Expert to allow the direct contact of ozone with foods in the gas or aqueous stages was approved by the U.S. FDA and the USDA. Since the approval of ozone as a food additive in 2001, Expert has been offering consulting services to the various parts of the food industry to provide expertise on what ozone is, how it should be evaluated, and how it should be designed into a food processing plant safely and effectively.
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Non-thermal food processing techniques involve ozone, since its approval as a food additive by the FDA and USDA in 2001. Ozone technology now is another arrow in the non-thermal processing quiver. Also please see the paragraph on "ozone food additive."
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Ozone is one of the most powerful disinfectants available to mankind. It has been used as a disinfectant since the early 1900s. Expert offers consulting services in the use of ozone as a disinfectant in the drinking water, food, and air treatment fields.
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An ozone disinfection byproduct is a material produced, ostensibly, when ozone is used as a disinfectant. But if the same starting materials are present when ozone is added to oxidize (as opposed to disinfect), then the identical product(s) is/are created. Expert provides consulting services that involve the chemistries of ozone use, whether that use is for disinfection or oxidation.
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Ozone can be generated in a variety of manners. When God created the heavens and the Earth, He also created the ozone layer. During electrical storms, lightning creates ozone. However, it also can be generated for commercial use by UV radiation, by corona discharge, and by electrolysis. Expert consults in the various methods of ozone generation, particularly as may be applicable to a specific commercial use.
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Not only is ozone one of the most powerful disinfectants available to mankind, but is one of the strongest oxidants as well. Understanding how ozone reacts on microorganisms and inorganic and organic materials is part of Expert's stock in trade as an ozone consultant.
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One of the major uses for gas phase ozone is in the storage and transportation of produce, in order to minimize microbial growths and prolong the shelf life of the foodstuffs. Expert provides consultation in the use of ozone for produce storage--which must be done carefully in order to gain the disinfection benefits of ozone without also causing damage to the foodstuffs.
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Show Only Primary Areas of Expert Consulting
Secondary Expertise
activated carbon water filtration, activated-carbon system, air pollutant, apple pectin, atmospheric gas, biological treatment, cereal processing, chemistry, chlorine dioxide, Clean Water Act, clean-in-place, controlled atmosphere storage, cooling water treatment, dairy processing, deodorizing, disinfectant Environmental Protection Agency regulation, disinfectant Food and Drug Administration regulation, drinking water inorganics control, drinking water odor control, drinking water organics control, drinking water quality monitoring, drinking water quality standard, environmental regulation, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act regulation, feedwater treatment, food additive, Food and Drug Administration regulation, food preservation, food processing, food storage, fruit juice processing, fruit processing, granular activated carbon industrial wastewater treatment, groundwater treatment, industrial wastewater treatment statute, industrial water, industrial water treatment, iron removal, meat processing, meat storage, municipal wastewater, municipal wastewater disinfection, municipal wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment regulation, municipal water, nut (fruit) processing, odor control, odor-controlling wastewater treatment system, ozone degradation, ozone deodorizer, ozone depletion potential, ozone environmental effect, pea processing, point-of-use drinking water treatment, potato processing, process-water treatment, Safe Drinking Water Act, swimming pool water treatment, tertiary municipal wastewater treatment, ultrapure water, vegetable processing, wastewater, wastewater treatment, water disinfection, water pollution assessment, water pollution control
Basic Expertise
activated carbon, additive, biological industrial wastewater treatment, by-product, carbon, carbon dioxide, cetylpyridinium chloride, chemical industrial wastewater treatment, chloramine environmental effect, destruction, dioxide, food, food additive environmental effect, food regulation, foreign language, health, heterocyclic compound, industrial wastewater, industrial wastewater treatment, odor, phosphazine, phosphorus chemistry, physical industrial wastewater treatment, pollution, pollution removal, quinone, statute, surveying, swimming pool, swimming pool chemical, transfer, waste, water, water pollution process, water purification, waterworks | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Baltimore, Maryland;
Frederick, Maryland;
Gaithersburg, Maryland;
Bowie, Maryland;
Reading, Pennsylvania;
Lancaster, Pennsylvania;
Wilmington, Delaware;
and Alexandria, Virginia.
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1957
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Ph.D.
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Organic Chemistry
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University of Maryland
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1948
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B.S.
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Chemistry
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George Washington University
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1943
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Associate of Science
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Chemistry
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North Texas Agricultural College
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1982 to
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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)
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President/CEO
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Expert provides consulting services in ozone technologies, applications of ozone, and regulatory analyses regarding ozone. His major interests are food processing and storage, air treatment, water and wastewater treatment--all involving ozone.
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1977 to 1982
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Jacobs Engineering Group
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Special Projects
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Consultant and Director
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He directed the activities of the Washington, D.C. office for a major engineering firm. He coordinated activities with federal agencies. He also developed contract R&D opportunities.
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1972 to 1976
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Expert, Incorporated
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Consultant/Washington Representative
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Expert represented firms to federal government agencies.
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1962 to 1972
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W.R. Grace & Co.
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Research Division
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Director, Contract Operations
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He directed government contract R&D projects in high temperature polymers, and environmental projects.
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1958 to 1962
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General Dynamics Corporation
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Advanced Projects
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Director
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Expert was in charge of the development of organic phosphonitrilic chloride copolymers and their high-temperature applications.
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1957 to 1958
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General Dynamics Corporation
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Bonded Structures Section
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Chemist
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He provided technical input to the Bonded Structures Sections of the Quality Control Department, pertaining to adhesives, coatings, and laminates.
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1955 to 1957
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U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory
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New High Explosives
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Chemist
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He performed research and testing of new synthetic organic high explosives.
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1950 to 1955
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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Chemistry Division
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Chemist
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He worked on the development of new sonar range recorder paper, and did research on phosphonitrilic chloride polymers.
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of numerous societies including ACS, the Water Environment Federation, the American Water Works Association, the International Ozone Association, and the International Ultraviolet Association.
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Professional Appointments
He was the Editor-in-Chief of "Ozone: Science & Engineering," the bimonthly journal of the International Ozone Association (1985-1998), and was the Editor of "Ozone News," the bimonthly newsletter of the International Ozone Association (1992-1998). He is the Editor of "IUVA News," the newsletter of the International Ultraviolet Assoc. (1999-present).
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Awards/Recognition
Expert is listed in American Men & Women of Science and Who's Who in Technology Today. He received the IOA Founder's Award in 1979, and the IOA Morton Klein Award in 1995.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He is the author or coauthor of over 100 publications dealing with various aspects of ozone technology. Expert is also the editor or author of 20 books dealing with aspects of ozone or the proceedings of the International Ozone Association.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- U.S. Food and Drug Administration. on IOA CD -- Newport Beach Meeting
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- Ozone Science & Engineering
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French
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Expert can read French.
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German
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Expert can read German.
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Other Skills and Services
Expert holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry and written several papers in this field. He has experience in inorganic covalent compounds based on phosphorus and nitrogen (phosphonitrilic halides) and copolymers with polyhydroxyaromatic compounds. He has worked since 1973 in the field of ozone technology and its various chemistries as applicable to various commercial purposes.
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