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Expert in Industrial Utilities and Forensic Engineering
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Expert has spent a major portion of his career involved with industrial utility generation and distribution. This has included steam and condensate, compressed air, chilled and frigid water, and fuels. His work has encompassed, and continues to encompass, the primary equipment for generating the utilities (boilers, compressors, and chillers), the equipment for delivering the utilities (piping, pumps, fans, and blowers), and the associated auxiliary equipment (heaters, deaerators, condensers, cooling towers, pipe fittings and specialties, valves, and metering equipment).
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Expert is very experienced in mechanical engineering analysis including fluid and gas flow analysis, problem identification and analysis, process analysis, failure analysis, thermodynamic cycle and process analysis, economic analysis, feasibility analysis, and report writing. He is very adept at data analysis and enjoys undertaking problem solving after others have abandoned the task.
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Expert has investigated several explosions, most of which were boiler explosions. In addition, he has investigated the explosion of a very large steam-fired autoclave used for curing concrete blocks.
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Expert has worked extensively with flowmetering over his 27-year engineering career. He has worked with flowmeters of many types and most types of flow control valves. He has done metering and flow control work on compressed air, steam, water, fuel gases, and liquid fuels.
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Expert's primary area of expertise is boilers of all sizes up to utility boilers. He has worked with boilers fired by gas, light oil, heavy oil, and coal. In addition to boiler work, he has also worked on boiler auxiliaries including feed pumps, deaerators, economizers, controls, fans, piping, valves, fuel handling equipment, etc. He has performed combustion calculations in order to determine air/fuel ratios. Finally, he has performed forensic engineering involving boiler failures and explosions (both pressure vessel and furnace).
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Expert has an intense interest in boiler and steam system safety. He teaches boiler courses in which he makes safety a central issue. He uses his expert witness experience to teach from others mistakes in an effort to prevent future accidents.
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Expert has served as an expert in almost forty cases involving ruptured flex joints, fractured and leaking steam valves, an exploding autoclave, boiler sulfur emissions, cogeneration systems, furnace explosions, a frozen fire sprinkler line, a leaking boiler gauge glass, pump failures and problems, faulty water meters, failed refrigerant compressors, workers injured during utility boiler outages, workers injured while testing piping systems, and several boiler explosions.
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Expert's general area of expertise is industrial facilities and utility systems engineering. His experience includes work with air compressors and compressed air systems; blowers; hot and boiling liquid pumping; blowers and fans; chillers and chilled water systems; cogeneration; combined heat and power systems; cooling towers; heat exchangers; fuel piping, delivery, and control systems; pumps and pump selection; steam piping, systems, and auxiliaries, including steam turbines; piping systems; and valves of all types.
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Show Only Primary Areas of Expert Consulting
Secondary Expertise
air compressor, ball valve, blower, boiler emission, boiler fuel, boiler optimization, burner, centrifugal fan, chiller, chilling, coal (fuel), cogeneration, combined heat and power distribution, combustion chemistry, combustion furnace, compressor (machine), control valve, cooling tower, deaerator, electric power plant, energy, energy consumption, energy recovery, energy requirement, energy-efficient boiler, energy-efficient coal boiler, energy-efficient energy recovery system, energy-efficient fuel metering, energy-efficient metering, energy-efficient packaged cogeneration, energy-efficient steam cogeneration, energy-efficient waste heat recovery system, energy-efficient water metering, expansion tank, facility, fire tube boiler, flow, flowmeter, fluid handling, fossil fuel electric energy generation, fuel oil, gas flow through a nozzle, gear pump, generation process, heat exchange condenser, heat generation, heating equipment, hot liquid pumping, industrial boiler system, industrial piping, industrial plant energy management, industrial water, liquid flow through a nozzle, maintenance, mechanical engineering, mechanical system, metering, oil, oil-fired boiler, orifice meter, pipe, power, pressure, project management, pump selection, Rankine cycle, recuperator, screw pump, steam boiler air preheater, steam flow, steam pipe, steam system, steam-jet ejector, thermal insulation material, thermodynamic process evaluation, utility blower, utility system, venturi tube, water hammer, water leak, water pipe, writing
Basic Expertise
air pollution control, air pollution process, ash, ash management, coal environmental effect, combined-cycle turbine, construction failure, database, device, distribution, energy-efficient gas turbine cogeneration, facility maintenance management, fossil fuel environmental effect, gas mechanics, gas scrubber, generator, handling, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning equipment, implementation, inspection, installation, kilowatt, license, lignite, pipe welding, plant maintenance, pollution, positive-displacement non-rotary pump, startup, steam generation equipment corrosion, steam turbine failure analysis, thermal insulation system, tower structure, turbine, turbine generator, vane pump, water | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Columbus, Ohio;
Cincinnati, Ohio;
Toledo, Ohio;
Akron, Ohio;
Dayton, Ohio;
Canton, Ohio;
Lorain, Ohio;
Springfield, Ohio;
Hamilton, Ohio;
and Elyria, Ohio.
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Honors |
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1988
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M.E.
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Mechanical Engineering
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Ohio State University
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1976
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B.S.M.E.
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Mechanical Engineering
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Purdue University
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Pi Tau Sigma
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1988 to
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(Undisclosed)
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President
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Expert is the Owner, President, and Chief Engineer.
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1983 to 1988
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Ohio State University
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Power Plant Project Manager
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He was Project Manager for a large, complex steam line expansion; a large coal fired boiler and dry flue gas scrubber; and a 3MW cogeneration system.
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1981 to 1982
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Cummins Engine Company
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Facility Maintenance Manager
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Expert was responsible for all facility maintenance and engineering for several large buildings.
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1979 to 1981
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Aluminum Company of America
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Power Plant Project Manager
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He was responsible for all power plant, energy conservation, and heat treat furnace engineering.
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1977 to 1979
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Purdue University
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Project Engineer
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Expert was the project engineer for various HVAC, utility, and power plant projects.
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1976 to 1977
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Armour-Dial, Inc.
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Project Engineer
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He was the project engineer and maintenance supervisor in the soap finishing area.
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the National Fire Protection Association.
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Licenses/Certifications
He holds a Third Class Stationary Engineer's License and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio.
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Awards/Recognition
Expert has received various Who's Who awards.
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1968 to 1972
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USMC
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Officer and Enlisted Man
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Expert enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1968 and in 1969 completed OCS. After Basic School, he volunteered for and served nine months in Viet Nam as an artillery forward observer. Upon his return to the United States, he was appointed as a disbursing officer where he served until his release from active duty.
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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Expert completed a gas line capacity study for a large glass manufacturing plant.
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He performed a steam line and condensate study for a large paint/coatings plant.
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Expert has analyzed and solved numerous complex problems for industrial clients, i.e., a natural gas consumption problem at an asphalt plant, and a severe cooling problem on four very large air compressors.
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He has conducted cogeneration feasibility studies for an automobile manufacturer and a large Midwestern university.
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Expert has analyzed numerous boiler problems, including boiler puffs and explosions.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert has served as a consulting and testifying forensic engineer in almost forty cases for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. The cases have involved ruptured flex joints, fractured and leaking steam valves, an exploding autoclave, boiler sulfur emissions, cogeneration systems, furnace explosions, a frozen fire sprinkler line, a leaking boiler gauge glass, pump failures and problems, faulty water meters, failed refrigerant compressors, workers injured during utility boiler outages, workers injured while testing piping systems, and several boiler explosions.
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2003 to 2003
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Bremerhaven, Germany
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Expert traveled to Germany to investigate the explosion of a boiler on the cruise ship S.S. Norway.
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Training/Seminars
He has delivered many seminars on basic boiler theory and operation, and on industrial boiler controls.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience locating vendors of pumps, valves, fans, blowers, piping specialties, flow metering, boilers, chillers, compressors, heat exchangers, cooling towers, mechanical and inspection services. He has access to the following resources: catalogs, magazine compendia, personal contacts, and databases.
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Other Skills and Services
Expert spearheaded the implementation of a 3125 kW cogeneration system for a major Midwestern university. This involved conducting load analyses, writing a feasibility study, and then supervising the design, installation, and startup of a topping (non-condensing) steam turbine generator supplied by a coal-fired boiler.
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