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Expert in Hydrogenation, Gasification, Amination, Reactor, Kinetic Modeling, Distillation, Thermodynamics
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Expert has over 35 years of experience in hydrogenation as applied in the chemical industry using batch and continuous processes using catalyst slurriies in stirred tank reactors, hydroprocesswing in trickle bed reactors practised in petroleum refining and novel reactor concepts developed for heavy oil upgrading and coal liquefaction. As a consultant to the chemical and petroleum industry he has helped developing novel hydrogenation processes and optimising existing processes. He is the course director and a lecturer for a continuing education course offered in the USA and in Europe since 1981. He specializes in reactor system selection for commercial operation and has developed scale-up methodolgies for reactor design from laboratory findings. He also offers expertise in selecting the source of hydrogen.
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Expert has 40 years of experience in process engineering starting from laboratory and pilot plant scale work, conceptual PFD and P&ID development, equipment design and managing detailed engineering work by Engineering companies. He has worked in the fields of hydrogenation, nitration, amination, phogenation, chlorination, fluorination, oxidation, polymerization, fluidization, azeotropic and extractive distillation, liquid extraction and crystallization. He specializes in developing process simulation models using using commercially available as well as custom designed software to guide the process development work to a commercial success. His experience includes finding and managing joint development work with other companies. He holds 14 US patents
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Expert has an in-depth understanding of chemical kinetics, thermodynamics phae equilibrium, heat and mass transfer, material and energy balances in a chemical reaction environment. He has practical experience in applying these principles to develop novel reactor designs and to optimize the existing commercial reaction systems for hydrogenation, nitration, amination, phogenation, chlorination, fluorination, oxidation and polymerization. He is familiar with all reactor types and their design principles. He uses modern computer-based tools for analyzing and designing chemical reactor. His process engineering experience enables him to see the entire process, up and down stream of the reactor, to achieve the optimum. He teaches courses on the design of reactors for hydrogenation, amination, nitration and gasification and served as a consultant to companies that have participated.
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Expert has over 25 years of experience in gasification as applied in the chemical industry for syngas production, for electric power and synthetic fuels production in the energy sector, for upgrading the bottom-of-the-barrel in petroleum refining, as well as emerging applications such as renewable energy, and municipal and industrial waste disposal. He has surveyed all the commercialized technologies around the world. He has carried out in-depth analysis of leading gasifier designs, such as those offered by GE, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Sasol-Lurgi and Siemens. He has developed computer programs analyzing and designing gasifiers for providing preliminary feasibility studies, before involving technology providers. He teaches a continuing education course offered in the USA and in Europe on gasification technology. He also offers expertise in down stream processes, such as syngas cleaning and syngas applications.
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Expert has a broad understanding of all hydrogen and syngas manufacturing technologies, such as steam reforming of natural gas, refinery fuel gas, LPG, and naphtha, partial oxidation of gaseous feedstocks, gasification of liquid and solid feedstocks, methanol reforming, electrolysis, ammonia dissociation and metal-steam reaction. He has an in-depth understanding of the the most commonly used technologies, such as steam reforming, partial oxidation and gasification and developed simulation models for analyzing, designing and optimizing such plants. He offers expertise in the applications of hydrogen and syngas as well. He is course director and lecturer for continuing education courses on hydrogenation and gasification technologies.
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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;
Newark, New Jersey;
Jersey City, New Jersey;
Paterson, New Jersey;
Elizabeth, New Jersey;
Bridgeport, Connecticut;
New Haven, Connecticut;
Stamford, Connecticut;
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Honors |
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1974
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PhD
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Chemical Engineering
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Columbia University, New York
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1968
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MS
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Chemical Engineering
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Columbia University, New York
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Graduate Citation
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1966
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B.Tech
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Chemical Engineering
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Indian Institute of Technology
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2008 to
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(Undisclosed)
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President
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He provides consulting service to chemical, pharmaceutical and petroleum refining industries in the areas of hydrogenation, gasification, process development from lab scale to commercial operation and complex distillation.
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1992 to 2008
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The BOC Group, Murray Hill, NJ
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Chemical & Petroleum Market Sector
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Director of Technology
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He is responsible for business development in the chemical and petroleum industries and assessing novel technologies for industrial gas production and applications in the chemical, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries.
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1988 to 1992
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Jacobs Engineering Group
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Baton Rouge Office
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Process Section Manager
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He managed process engineering activities for chemical and petroleum refining industry projects.
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1968 to 1988
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Honeywell International, Morristown, NJ
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Corporate Technology
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Program Manager
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He held technical and management positions in Corporate Engineering, and Corporate Technology organizations.
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1966 to 1967
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Digvijay Cement Co, India
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Production
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Chemical Engineer
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He was responsible for quality assurance.
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Licenses/Certifications
He holds professional engineering license in the state of New Jersey
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Publications and Patents Summary
He holds 14 US Patents and is the author of over 25 publications
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Chemical Engineering
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- Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design
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- Handbook of Chemical Engineering Calculations, McGraw-Hill
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- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
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- Hydrocarbon Engineering
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2006 to 2008
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US DOE
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Principal Investigator
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He prformed engineering analysis and economic evaluation of a novel process for coproducing hydrogen and power from coal via gasification.
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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He helped a large chemical company develop an amination process for producing a diamine product which had only one supplier at that time. The work involved analyzing lab data to uncover the limitation of the reactor design, suggesting changes and making sure that a successful completion of pilot trial was achieved
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He provided expertise in hydrogenation technology for a global petroleum and petrochemical company in selecting proper catalyst and designing a reactor system for converting a dicaboxylic acid into a diol one one step. The process is in commercial operation now.
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He analyzed plant and laboratory data from a batch hydrogenation process in a Food/Pharmaceutical company to determine if the plant capacity can be increased by running the process as a continuous reactor.
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He provided advise and process calculations for specialty chemical company in selecting the proper catalyst and reactor configuration for a hydro dechlorination process, taking into account corrosion issues.
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He analyzed lab data obtained using small batch agitated slurry reactor and used the results to design a system of continuous trickle bed reactors for commercialization of the hydrogenation steo of a synthetic fuel process. He prepared capital and operating cost estimates for the process as well as a local hydrogen manufacturing unit.
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1994 to 2006
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China
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As an employee of a global industrial gases company, he supported business development through joint ventures in the petroleum and petrochemical industry. China is now the leading area for new investments for the company. He has also held a number discussions with the engineering and operating companies in China to understand the countries capability in coal gasification
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1993 to 1997
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Australia
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He surveyed and held discussions with the petroleum refining companies, which led to the successful development of a large industrial gases supply agreement.
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1993 to 1997
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Thailand
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He held discussions with the petroleum refining companies and petrochemical parks, which led to the successful development of an industrial gases supply business to a cluster of industries.
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1994 to 1996
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Venezuela
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He held discussions with PdVSA, which led to the successful development of a hydrogen supply business, the first venture towards privatization for the national oil company.
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1996 to 2006
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South Africa
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He supported the local business development personnel with identification of potential industrial gases supply to refineries. He had extensive discussions with Sasol to evaluate their gasification technology.
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Tamil
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His native language is Tamil
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Has 25 years of experience in the chemical and petroleum refining industries and has been following the trends in those industries around the world since then for marketing industrial gases. Gasification of coal, carbon capture and sequestration, alternate fuels are the topics in the Energy sector the expert covers
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Training/Seminars
Course director and lecturer for continuing education courses on Hydrogenation, Gasification, Nitration, Amination and Gas Fluidization technologies, offered by the Center for Professional Advancement in the USA and Europe
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Extensive experience in dealing with suppliers of catalyst and equipments for hydrogenation, suppliers of commercial gasification technologies, suppliers of hydrogen production plants.
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Other Skills and Services
In addition to an in-depth understanding of chemical engineering principles, the expert has excellent capability in the use computer to solve complex engineering problems and to develop user friendly custom programs for certain routine design and analysis work.
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