Canada
1) Particulate and Multiphase fluidization; 2) Gas-particle system hydrodynamics; 3) Spouted bed; Circulating fluidized bed (CFB):and Vibro-fluidized bed (VFB); 4) Flow visualization and Digital image processing.
1) Lead innovation, new product or service development and continuous improvement. 2) Develop new products and participate in all phases of product development including research, design, testing, certification, production, and marketing. 3) Create technical documentation including project plans, test procedures, design documents and drawings, bills of material, routings, work instructions, etc. 4) Dedication to customer service through timely completion of responsibilities and unwavering commitment to quality. 5) Identify, resolve, and document product issues based on customer feedback, prior product updates, and in-house testing. 6) Participate with an owner’s mindset as a strong team player brining an ability to collaborate to create value and a willingness and acumen to grow with the company.
Projects: Develop modular and scalable hydrogen production technology using natural gas pyrolysis without CO2 emissions. Cold flow fluidized bed providing hydrodynamic support to the pilot plant reactor.
Projects: Heat transfer efficiency in a 3-ft (1 m) diameter fluidized bed with vertical heating bundle. Gas-solid RTD in an 8-in fluidized bed column.
1) Design an enhanced fluidized bed drying of potash particles operated in a continuous mode. 2) Investigate the fluidization and bubbling behavior of wet particles in the fluidized bed dryers. 3) Lead research team and monitor the project progress. 4) Design and construct a lab scale tribo-electrostatic separation system for pluses and cereals. 5) Process optimization of pulses and cereals flour for effective protein-starch separation. 6) Characterize the composition, nutritional properties and functionality of separated ingredients.
1) Designed lab and industrial scale spouted bed chemical reactors (1×4 and 3×12 inches) and their visualization systems. 2) Developed Python algorithm to study different hydrodynamic characteristics in spouted beds using image processing. 3) Performed test campaigns investigating flow patterns/regimes, jet geometries, fountain characteristics. 4) Analyzed the hydrodynamic characteristics of spouted bed to help an industrial company improve and scale up a reacting chemical process and provided high fidelity information for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model validation. 5) Investigated spouting characteristics and scale-up effects and published papers in peer reviewed journals with high IF. 6) Published 10 papers during this time span..