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EXPERTLY ORCHESTRATED GENIUS

Resume of RYG, Ph.D.

Consultant

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED

  • Wastewater
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductor
  • Computer
  • Metal Plating and Finishing
  • Chemical
  • Oil
  • Mining
  • Textile
  • Pulp and Paper
  • Ceramics and Paints
  • Pesticide
  • Food and Beverage
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical

EDUCATION

This expert has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Biochemical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

A B.S. in Chemical Engineering was also received from this institution.


EXPERTISE AND SERVICES

Biochemical, Hazardous Waste and Wastewater Expert Consultant Resume

This expert specializes in wastewater treatment engineering, wastewater pretreatment, influent water treatment, and wastewater treatment facility design. Further expertise includes wastewater treatment equipment, wastewater collection equipment, waste auditing, effluent monitoring, wastewater statue, and chemical waste minimization.

Extensive chemical hazardous waste consulting includes hazardous waste source reduction, hazardous waste treatment, waste recovery, and wastewater recycling. Other related consulting includes metal finishing wastewater treatment, plating wastewater treatment, aqueous filtration, and industrial wastewater filtration. Further related fields include industrial wastewater treatment, groundwater cleanup, groundwater treatment, process control system design, process monitoring, and heavy metal analysis.

This associate offers expertise specific to particulate filtration, membrane separation technology, pollution prevention, and waste minimization. Other specific expertise includes waste surveys and audits (involving sampling and chemical analysis protocols), industrial water management and treatment, project management, and process design and wastewater treatment equipment selection. Further specialties are control systems for treatment plants, operator training programs, and troubleshooting of existing treatment plants. This expert is also skilled with effluent treatment system, DAF, and microfiltration.

Additional areas of specialty include reverse osmosis, GAC, ion exchange, and evaporators. Fields of relevant experience also include biological treatment, general treatment systems, environmental compliance audits, and performance and site audits. Other specialties include hazardous waste regulations, activated carbon, evaporation, dewatering filter presses, and drying equipment.

This expert is highly experienced in areas including chemical coagulation and flocculation, neutralization, pH control, and activated carbon. Other related areas of experience include particulate filtration, sludge dewatering and drying, chemical oxygen demand removal, and desalination. This expert also specializes with process water treatment, particulate and fine filtration of beverages and wine, and cooling tower recirculation systems, and vendor coordination for particulate filtration. Furthermore, this expert possesses skill and knowledge in fields such as heavy metal removal systems, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, filter press, and expert testimony.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing biochemical engineering, chemical and hazardous waste consulting, wastewater treatment consulting, failure analysis, forensic engineering, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

Vice President, Technical Operations, Hydrokinetic Systems, Inc.

President, Envirogard

Director of Operations, Binnie California, Inc.

Chief Chemical Engineer, Binnie California, Inc.

Managing Director, EPOC Ltd

Consulting Engineer, Binne and Partners

Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Durham

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wastewater Treatment Engineering; Wastewater Pretreatment; Influent Water Treatment

Applied background in chemical engineering, particulate filtration, and membrane separation technology in areas of water and wastewater management, pollution prevention, and treatment of industrial wastewaters and hazardous wastes. Knowledgeable of waste minimization, waste surveys and audits (involving sampling and chemical analysis protocols), industrial water management and treatment, project management, process design and wastewater treatment equipment selection, control systems for treatment plants, operator training programs, and troubleshooting of existing treatment plants. Consultant to clients in the electronics, semiconductor, disk drive, metal plating and finishing, chemical, oil, mining, textile, pulp and paper, laundry, ceramics and paints, pesticide, food and beverage, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

Wastewater Treatment Facility Design

Experience in wastewater treatment facility design includes work on an effluent treatment system for an oil refinery using DAF, microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and GAC. Worked on the process design and equipment specification of a 1 MGD treatment plant for the removal of selenium from agricultural drainage water. Involved in design and development of a sophisticated computer control system for a wastewater treatment plant for a major semiconductor company.

Wastewater Treatment Equipment; Wastewater Collection Equipment

Over 20 years of experience with process and engineering design of filtration equipment, membrane separation systems (including reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, and microfiltration), ion exchange, evaporators, biological treatment, and general treatment systems.

Waste Auditing; Effluent Monitoring; Wastewater Statue

Experienced in many aspects of pollution prevention. Expert in environmental compliance audits, performance audits, and site audits, hazardous waste regulations, particularly for California. Registered Environmental Assessor in California. Has worked on audits and chemical analysis surveys for semiconductor manufacturers.

Chemical Waste Minimization; Hazardous Waste Source Reduction

Provided clients with cost effective solutions and detailed recommendations to minimize waste production and optimize water usage by operational improvements, production process equipment, chemical changes, operator training programs, and improved automation. Capabilities include hazardous waste reduction systems in the industries that produce heavy metals, pesticides, paints, dyestuffs, solvents, and oil and grease.

Hazardous Waste Treatment; Waste Recovery; Wastewater Recycling

Process design and operational experience with the treatment technologies used for recovery and reuse, including filtration, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange, activated carbon, evaporation, dewatering filter presses, and drying equipment. Project management for technology demonstration projects carried out for the California DHS Toxic Substances Control Division and the EPA SITE program. The former was a waste reduction and recycling system for heavy metals and pigments used in the paint and ceramics industry. Both water and separated waste were reused through the processes of microfiltration, filter press dewatering, drying, and vitrification to form a ceramic substance. The EPA SITE project was on the removal of high concentrations of heavy metals (copper and zinc) from acid mine drainage water

Metal Finishing Wastewater Treatment; Plating Wastewater Treatment

Significantly involved in process design, equipment selection, and troubleshooting of wastewater treatment systems for particulates and heavy metals removal encountered in the metal finishing industry. Has worked with copper, nickel, lead, zinc, and chromium. Familiar with ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange, chemical coagulation and flocculation, neutralization, pH control, activated carbon, particulate filtration, sludge dewatering and drying, and chemical oxygen demand removal. Designed and installed over 40 wastewater treatment systems of sizes up to 250,000 gallons per day for the groundwater remediation, metal plating, ceramics production, semiconductors, electronics, and disk drive industries.

Aqueous Filtration; Industrial Wastewater Filtration; Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Familiar with all aspects of filtration and membrane technology. Designed and installed filtration and membrane separation equipment for desalination, process water treatment, particulate and fine filtration of beverages and wine, and cooling tower recirculation systems. Extremely knowledgeable of treatment methods employing microfiltration, ultrafiltration, and reverse osmosis systems.

Groundwater Cleanup; Groundwater Treatment

Experience with treating groundwater for the removal of heavy metals, particulates, oil, and organic substances by activated carbon or catalytic oxidation.

Process Control System Design

Experience with the design, selection, programming, and installation of computer and PLC (programmable logic controllers) based control systems, including visual display units. Involved in projects ranging from pH control for neutralization and flocculation to complex, multi-process control systems for treatment plants that require monitoring, alarming, sequence control, PID control, and information logging.

Process Monitoring; Heavy Metal Analysis

Designed and installed a continuous, online process monitor for copper and nickel. This system uses ICP technology and automatically samples, analyses, provides process alarms, and prepares daily and monthly reports for treated wastewater prior to sewer discharge. The system is capable of analyzing up to 20 elements and can be used for the monitoring of most process streams requiring metals analysis


PUBLICATIONS

ICP monitoring of semiconductor wastewater. Process Control and Quality (in press)

Industrial wastewater, industrial laundries, and other practical applications of crossflow dynamic membrane technology

Hazardous waste minimization using dynamic membrane crossflow filtration

Microfiltration separation process and tubular automatic filler press applications

An analysis of the performance of a spiral wound ultrafiltration membrane with a turbulence promoting net



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