Scraped Surface Crystallizer expert for design and use in the Chemical, Refining, and Pharmaceutical industries, low and high RPM process scenarios included.
Hydraulic Wash Column (HWC) applications for solid liquid separation and solid purification.
Chemical Separation Plant design by developing balances, process flow diagrams, P&IDs, hydraulic pressure drop calculations, pump data sheets and selection, crystallizer design, separator design, melt heater design, vessel design, valve selection, instrument data sheets and selection, wiring diagrams, control system logic/design, and precise electric tracing design.
PLC, HMI, and Computer control and monitoring system design and programming. Programming with Rockwell, Siemens, and GE systems.
Process design with hydro cyclones, plate filters, vacuum filters, pusher centrifuges, bowl centrifuges, settlers, drum crystallizers, and more.
Successful crystallization of chemicals such as p-xylene, acrylic acid, acetic acid, p-nitrochlorobenzene, Glauber salts, lithium salts, phosphoric acid, amorphous (non-crystalline) waxes, non-crystalline fatty acids, and more.
Solid liquid flow design, pipe and tube sizing, layout, and orientation.
Participated in successful R&D using melt crystallization for Pharma industry.
Design of low temperature “cold” line tracing, sizing and specifying chillers, and utility system design.
Programmed design software for crystallizers and for crystallizer separation plants.
Partnered with Crystallization experts throughout the world. Keen awareness of past problems and current solutions for crystallization systems.
Web implementation of Kozeny-Carmen equation for packed bed pressure drop for a variety of solids.
Web implementation of Turton and Levenspiel (1986) for settling velocity for a variety of individual particles.
Web Implementation of Richardson and Zaki (1954) for hindered velocity of many particles (suspensions) of various shapes.
Gave technical presentations on Chemical Separation Plant desirability throughout Japan, Taiwan, PRC, India, Netherlands, and the United States.