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Expert in Process Development in Catalytic Heterogeneous Hydrogenation and Solid Acid Catalyzed Reactions
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Expert has used his skills in applied organic chemistry to develop many process improvements utilizing this subject with a deep understanding of catalysis. He is familiar with scale-up problems and has worked to adapt existing plant equipment to improve a new or existing process. His understanding and skills have consistently yielded significant bottom line impact.
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Expert notes that fine chemical production has a need for high quality products at an acceptable cost. By developing catalyst system that can impact both selectivity, and manage waste generation and utilizing his extensive skills in process development, Expert has often taken a fine chemical with marginal or negative value to the winner's circle.
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Expert notes that in industrial chemistry, whether involving bulk chemicals, fine chemicals or crop protection chemicals, one is always concerned with purity, waste management, safety, and cost. By utilizing his extensive experience in catalysis and process optimization, Expert has caused many new and existing products to have a significant bottom line impact.
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Expert notes that agricultural chemical production requires the development of a clean, safe, economical process at a very rapid pace. Once one has discovered a promising chemical, one must submit it for extensive and expensive testing. Any change in the process used to generate this chemical might require repeat testing. Expert' expertise in catalyst and process optimization has often led to a clean, safe, economical, and fully optimized process in a very short time. Expert was involved with several commercial processes, some patented, to perform selective heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of intermediates to agricultural chemicals. These minimized side product formation and gave high yield at minimum cost.
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Expert is a recognized expert in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. He has over 20 patents, most of which involve commercial processes in the use of heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation and sold acid catalysis. He served as a corporate consultant to Crompton Corporation for the majority of his career. Additionally, Expert was extremely active in the field outside the company working with all major catalyst vendors in developing optimized catalysts and in serving on the Executive Committee of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society for 18 years, where he edited the proceedings of the 16th conference, which he chaired.
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Expert was involved with optimization of several processes involving alkene hydrogenation; most notably, he led process development efforts involving hydrogenation of poly alpha olefins dealing with reaching high levels of saturation, and dehalogenation at minimum cost.
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Expert' application of organic chemistry, and most specifically heterogeneous catalysis, led to many process improvements of high bottom-line impact. Patents were obtained on many of these improvements. The processes he improved involved both batch and continuous processes at high pressure. They often involved working closely with catalyst vendors to develop economical catalysts of high specificity.
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Expert' work with ketone hydrogenation involved both the production of alcohols and the prevention of ketone hydrogenation in reductive alkylation reactions.
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Expert' work involved commercial process using solid acid catalysts to perform selective alkylation reactions. He also performed a great body of work on reductive alkylation reactions. In both of these fields he achieved substantial bottom line impact.
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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: New York, New York;
Yonkers, New York;
Bridgeport, Connecticut;
New Haven, Connecticut;
Hartford, Connecticut;
Boston, Massachusetts;
Worcester, Massachusetts;
Springfield, Massachusetts;
Paterson, New Jersey;
and Providence, Rhode Island.
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1995
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Doctoris Universitatis
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Organic Chemistry
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Josef Attila University; Szeged, Hungary
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1963
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M.S.
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Organic Chemistry
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Cornell University
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1960
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B.S.
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Chemistry
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Fordham University
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Phi Lambda Upsilon
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2002 to
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(Undisclosed)
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President
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Expert consults on various projects involving catalysis. He has written several patent applications.
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1968 to 2002
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Crompton Corporation
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Catalysis and Special Research Lab
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Research Fellow
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He was a corporate consultant in catalysis. He served the Rubber Chemical's, Crop Protection's, and Specialties Chemical's Plants, R&D, and Process Development Groups. The majority of his work was involved with process development in the areas of both batch and continuous catalytic heterogeneous hydrogenation and solid acid catalyzed reactions. He was considered a valuable resource on safety issues, especially involving high pressure and continuous reactions.
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1999 to 2002
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University of Connecticut
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Department of Chemistry
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Adjunct Professor
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Expert consulted with and served as co-advisor for ten graduate students in programs of inducstrial value that he had obtained funding from outside of Crompton.
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1963 to 1968
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Union Carbide
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Corporate Research Institute
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Research Chemist
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He synthesized and evaluated ion exchange zeolites as catalysts for organic reactions.
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, ACS, and Sigma Xi.
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Professional Appointments
He has twice been the Chairman of Crompton's Technical Society.
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Awards/Recognition
At Crompton, Expert has received President Awards, Annual Committed to Excellence Awards, Annual Safety Awards, and Annual Technical Achievement Awards.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has 14 publications and 22 patents. Please also see his "Selected Publications" section.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Marcel Dekker
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While at Crompton, Expert arranged for funding from a catalyst vendor to Professor Steven Suib's group at the University of Connecticut to apply the vendor's catalysts to Crompton's needs. His leadership and input evaluated five processes generating two very important leads and resulting in two patents in a year's time at no cost to Crompton.
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He served as a Corporate Consultant for Crompton plants, both in the U.S. and abroad, implementing process improvements involving 4-aminodiphenylamine, flexzones, DPA, aniline, and crop and specialty products.
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Expert served as a Corporate Consultant at Crompton for rubber chemicals, specialty chemicals, and crop protection to reduce costs to the point of feasibility.
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He served as Crompton's consultant to Rubicon, in which Crompton had an interest, to bring about significant cost reductions in the production of DPA and aniline.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Expert in solid acid catalyst for consulting on potential opportunities for acid activated clay catalysis.
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Expert in hydrotreating or hydrogenation for consulting on chemical engineering troubleshooting.
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1980 to 1992
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Latina, Italy
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Expert worked with a plant on troubleshooting processes as well as process development implementation in the production of Flexzones® antiozonants. (Flexzone is a registered trademark of the Crompton Corporation.)
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1985 to 1990
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Rio Clara, Brazil
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He worked with a plant on troubleshooting processes as well as catalyst and process development implementation in the production of Flexzones® antiozonants.
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1977 to 2001
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Elmira, Canada
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Expert worked with a plant on troubleshooting processes as well as catalyst and process development implementation in the production of Flexzones® and PAOs.
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1974 to 2002
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Amsterdam, Holland
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He worked with plants on troubleshooting processes as well as catalyst and process development implementation involving crop protection products.
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Training/Seminars
Expert was certified as a facilitator for Crompton Corporation in "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection He qualified catalysts from all catalyst vendors for Crompton including Engelhard, Degussa, Johnson Matthey, et al. He qualified raw materials for plants worldwide for catalytic processes.
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