Technical specialties include chemical equilibrium modeling, technical risk analyses,
chemical process modeling, combustion, transport phenomena, energy and petroleum
technologies, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Experience includes operating plant
performance testing; applications of decision analysis to R&D program planning; technical
and economic modeling of fossil fuel conversion technologies; technical risk analysis;
experimental design and implementation for chemical processing technologies and for
aerospace technologies; and computer applications to design and performance testing.
Recent work includes application of advanced electric utility technologies to solve power
plant problems in steam path erosion in turbines and pipes, in air quality control (NOX), in
improved condenser deaeration, and in boiler feedwater chemistry. Other work involved
the preparation of performance testing procedures for boilers and cooling towers. Other
recent experience includes an evaluation of electromagnetic filtration to remove exfoliated
particles from the main steam path of a utility power plant; an analysis of indigenous fossil
resources for an electric utility; and the application of electronic data interchange (EDI) for
future submissions of data to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by
the regulated community, including an analysis of hardware and software options, data
confidentiality and integrity, data certification, and coordination with other federal agencies
and voluntary organizations (e.g., ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT). Recent experience
includes the technical and market monitoring of a project to develop a whole-crude-fired
radial turbine for cogeneration applications. The turbine and an associated burner offered
superior environmental emissions characteristics (low NOX).
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- B.S. (Chemical Engineering), Columbia University (1963)
- M.S. (Chemical Engineering), Columbia University (1965)
- Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Stanford University (1969)
- Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Member, American Chemical Society
SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES
Review of Expert Reports and Opinions Concerning an Explosion and Fire Aboard the
MAERSK TOKYO on February 4, 1999, with S. Torbov and K. Clark, APTECH Report
AES 03075112-4-1 (July 2003).
Reply Report Concerning the Engineering Design, Construction, and Operational Difficulties
of the KFx Fuel Partners, L.P., Coal Beneficiation Plant at Gillette Wyoming, with
C. Greene, APTECH Report AES 99123863-4-2 (July 2001).
Report & Analysis of the Engineering Design, Construction and Operational Difficulties of
the KFx Fuel Partners, L.P., Coal Benefication Plant at Gillette WY, with C. Greene,
APTECH Report AES 99123863-4-1 (June 2001).
Expert Report on the January 8, 1998, Fire at the Lonza, Inc. Fire Chemical Processing
Plant, with K. Clark, APTECH Report AES 01034317-4-1 (June 2001).
Estimated Long-Term Costs for Providing Engineering Oil-Fired Backup at the Potrero
Power Plant, with S. Nelson, APTECH Report AES 99113836-2-1 (March 2000).
Engineering Investigations and Analysis of the Incident at Sunray Energy, Inc., APTECH
Report AES 99033655-4-1 (May 1999).
Reliability and Maintainability Analysis for the Suncor Energy, Inc. Millennium Project, with
G. Grimsrud, APTECH Report AES 98043365-23-1 (February 1999).
Probability of a Total Power Blackout at the Upgrading Plant of Suncor Energy, Inc.,
APTECH Report AES 97073124-3-1 (October 1997).
Remaining Life Estimates of Motors 6KM-2A and 6KM-2B, APTECH Report
AES 97032984-3-1 (April 1997).
Availability Analysis of Texaco, Inc.'s Petronius Platform, with J. Witt, APTECH Report
AES 96052763-3-1 (November 1996).
Closeout of 1994 Audit of Upgrading Piping Inspection Program, APTECH Report
AES 96032690-3-1 (July 1996).
Review Report on NOX Abatement for Boilers 31F-01, 31F-02 and 31F-03 in Utilities, with
S. Torbov, APTECH Report AES 96012634-2-1 (February 1996).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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