Consulting Services

While working at AspenTech and other organizations, I provided chemical engineering consulting services to clients in 12 countries. This work included actual model development and validation, formulating simulation strategy, as well as using models to analyze and improve processes. The clients I assisted included Mitsubishi Kasei, GE Plastics, GE Silanes, Nissan Chemical, SASOL, Polifin, Repsol, Unilever, Australian Dept. Primary Industries, SINOPEC, Rohm & Haas, Huntsman Chemical, and Nabalco.

In addition to my background in process simulation and modeling, I also have a decade or so of hands-on bench and pilot-scale experience. I have built and/or operated bench and pilot-scale reactors, a bench-scale ultrafiltration system, pilot-scale web coaters, a fluid-bed cellulose pyrolysis reactor, a pilot-scale glass fiber spinner, a pilot-scale nitriding furnace, and a lab-scale coal pyrolysis and hydropyrolysis furnace.

You may find my background and experience helpful in the following areas:

Process Simulation Strategy

  • Choosing the correct process simulation technology to meet your requirements.
  • Integrating bench/pilot-scale data with simulation to scale-up and commercialize your process.
  • Using simulation to analyze and improve existing processes.
  • Using simulation to preserve and record process knowledge.
  • Using simulation to reverse-engineer processes.
  • Training your engineers to model complex chemical processes.

Bench and Pilot Scale Development

  • Review your bench and pilot-scale development efforts to ensure you are collecting the right data for use in scaling up to commercial scale.
  • Design a software and hardware system which will allow you to capture bench and pilot plant data so that it can be easily and efficiently used in support of process scale-up and commercialization.
  • Provide a creative second opinion when your development efforts are stalled.

Chemical Engineering Literature Search

  • Find prior knowledge relevant to your process that exists in the open literature.
  • Train your staff how to use technical search services in an efficient and cost-effective way.

If you are interested in discussing a potential consulting project, please contact me via email at or give me a call at
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