About
Specialist consultant in
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process catalyst selection
and catalyst development
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process catalyst
performance monitoring
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optimization of process
catalyst performance
*
characterization of
catalyst decay
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measurement and modelling of
catalyst deactivation.
Career summary.
24 years experience in industrial catalysis research and development and
process optimization in
Wide experience of process technology, including batch and continuous
processes and many types of commercial scale reactor. Direct
experience in R&D for manufacture of many chemical products including
petrochemicals, chemical intermediates, solvents, and fine chemicals.‡
Accumulated knowledge of many more processes.
Familiar with chemical plants in
‡ Examples:
EO, alkylamines, DMF, DMAC, specialty amines, alkanolamines
Previously an
Presentations at many company workshops and training events in
Visiting lecturer at several
undergraduate courses in physical chemistry (thermodynamics, kinetics and
mechanism, applied catalysis) and specialist postgraduate courses in catalyst
performance monitoring and catalyst decay.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow,
Honorary Secretary of the RSC Applied Catalysis Group from 2004 to 2009.
Conference Convener:
(i) ‘Catalysis for a sustainable future’, IUPAC Congress, Glasgow, August 2009
(ii) ‘Challenges in catalysis for pharmaceuticals and fine
chemicals II’,
Recent consultancy work: supporting techno-commercial case for academic grant
application; design and testing of homogeneous process reaction kinetic model;
techno-commercial evaluation of catalysis IP for venture capital company;
author of study on ‘catalyst deactivation’ for ‘The Catalyst Group’; presentations and
specialist consultancy on problems in catalysis and catalyst decay for many
international companies (novel catalyst development, catalyst testing, process
optimization); agent for sale of surplus industrial catalyst charge; review of
measurement and modelling of industrial catalyst decay for the Eurokin consortium
(test procedures, comprehensive literature review, analysis of gaps and needs).
Qualifications: Fellow of
the Royal
Society of Chemistry
Chartered Scientist, Chartered Chemist,
D.Phil.,
BA in Natural Sciences, Chemistry (Oxford, 1st class Hons)
Cost
of catalyst decay What this consultancy can do for your business.
Some lectures and publications. Lecture
Courses. Contact details.
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