Chemical Engineering Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 36 years of experience in petroleum, biofuel, and chemical engineering. A senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he has delivered over 50 presentations and speeches across the globe at conferences such as the World Fuels Conference. As a Product Manager with Crown Iron Works Company, this expert led their biodiesel initiative to position the company as a top firm in the biodiesel process technology market. At Delta-T Corporation, he led the Biodiesel Team by assisting financial institutions with due diligence on biodiesel investments and assisted engineers for biodiesel plant designs. Currently, this expert operates his own consulting firm, where he provides expert engineering and financial analyses for the petroleum refining and chemical industries.

This distinguished scholar is the Head of Chemical & Materials Engineering at his university, a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a former board of directors member of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to joining academia, he worked for E. I. duPont de Nemours, Conoco, Ethyl, and Kraft where he gained extensive experience in chemical processes that involved alternatives to CFCs, catalyst manufacture, agricultural & pharmaceutical intermediates processing, monomer recovery by depolymerization, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis of cheese by-products, electromembrane processes, bioethanol production, and numerous food processing operations. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of Chemical Engineering. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is on the Advisory Board of the Endowed Fund for Cyrogenic Research, and the Board of Directory for the Cyrogenic Society of America, and has 7 patents in Cyrogenics. This expert has authored over 60 publications and 55 scientific papers, as well as lectured extensively on topics relating to his field, and has coauthored a book on Cyrogenics. He currently holds academic positions at two major universities in California, lecturing on Cryogenics and Astronautical Engineering. He also serves as an Engineering Specialist for an Aerospace Company, and the Technical Director of a major US Defense Contractor.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in the chemical and petrochemical industries. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. The expert has worked in academic roles throughout his career, including adjunct professor roles at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. He has also been very active in industrial positions and held research roles with Dow Chemical Company and John Zink Company, among others. The expert has published 45+ papers, has authored 5+ book chapters, and holds 8 patents. He is an active industry consultant and currently serves as a Professor of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering for a university in Missouri.

This highly-qualified expert has over 35 years of experience with cryogenic liquefied and gaseous industrial gases. He earned his BS in chemical engineering from Villanova University, graduating magna cum laude. This expert is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida and currently holds one patent. He is active in his field as a member of the Compressed Gas Association and the National Fire Protection Association. He spent the majority of his career working for Air Products & Chemicals in a variety of roles, including advanced systems engineer, national manager of technical training, regional lead engineering manager, and the North American engineering manager. Currently, this expert serves as the president and CEO of an industrial gas consulting firm in Florida.

This highly-qualified expert has over 50 years of experience as a chemical engineer specializing in flexible packaging and labeling materials and processes. He received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri before earning his MS in chemistry from the University of Delaware. He is active in his field as a board member of the Label Printing Industries of America and currently holds 40 patents internationally, with 15 of these patents filed in the United States. He has formerly served as a research engineer for the Olin Corporation, the chemical corps planning officer for the US Army, and a research engineer for E.I. duPont deNemours. This expert spent over 20 years working in the films division at Mobil Chemical Company in a variety of roles. Most notably, he served as a development engineer, the commercial development and new product development manager, and the new product identification manager of new business development and labeling materials. He also briefly served as the VP of operations and research at Scharr Industries. For the past 25 years, this expert has served as the founder and president of a labeling materials consulting company in New York.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 60 years of experience as a chemical and mechanical engineer. He has demonstrated experience in a number of areas including: speciality and industrial chemicals, petrochemicals, polymers, fertilizers, phosphoric and sulfuric acid, phosphate, mineral processing, dyestuffs and intermediates, coal and coal chemicals, industrial wastewater treatment, cryogenics, gas liquefaction, refinery units, boilers, utilities, cryogenics, sulfur plants, engineered materials, building materials, food processing, animal feed, pipelines, and marine terminals. This earned his BS in chemical engineering from Cairo University, is a fellow of the Institute for the Advancement Of Engineering, and has 3 patents published through the United States, as well as 6 additional patents pending. This expert began his career as a chemical engineer at Chemicoke before going on to serve as a construction engineer at Engineering General Company, a development engineer and industrial chemist at Wunderlich Limited, a chemical engineer at The Austin Company, the chief mechanical engineer at McDonald Engineering Construction Group, a process projects engineer at Superior Air Products, a project engineer at Ralph Parsons, and both a proposal manager and project manager at Occidental Petroleum Corporation. For the past 37 years, this expert has served as the chief engineer at an independent engineering firm in California.

This chemical engineering expert earned a chemical engineering degree from the Universidad de Matanzas in Cuba and specializes in proposal writing and commercial agreement negotiations, process engineering, project engineering, project management, plant operation, and environmental engineering. He is active in his field as a member of several engineering associations, as a translator of numerous scientific papers from Spanish to English, as well as engineering specifications and standards, work procedures, project instruction and other engineering and technical documents, and as a Spanish-English interpreter in scientific conferences and events as well as engineering meetings in Cuba, Italy, Spain and Canada. He has formerly served as a senior area project engineer for Worley Parsons UAE, a project engineer for IMV Projects, a senior project engineer for Projex, and an engineer manager for TR Canada. Currently, this expert is the owner of an engineering firm based in Calgary, Alberta.

This published expert has over 20 years of experience in the field of chemical engineering, with his work specifically focused on thermal imaging. He earned his BS in physiology from McGill University and his MS in Chemical Engineering at McMaster University. He has extensive teaching experience as a visiting lecturer at Golden Gate University and Sofia University. He also formerly worked as a preclinical and clinical consultant at Oroscience PLC, where he designed and executed experiments to define the safety and efficacy of new electrosurgical products. Currently, he owns an engineering consulting business that assists many biomedical device companies in product development and manufacturing optimization.