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About

o Consulting Engineer
o Thermal Engineer
o Engineering Specialist
o Designer
o Inventor
o Advanced Heat-Transfer Technologies
o Advanced Brazing Technologies
o 40 years experience
o 36+ countries
o Leader of Composite Deposition (CD) aluminium particle-brazing development team
o Member of international Cuprobraze® copper particle-brazing development team
o Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB) expert
o Brazing expert on Cuprobraze® development project
o HEAT-EXCHANGERS
oo Consulting / design / rating / testing / manufacture
oo Software development / research
oo PHE/BPHE (design, software, big data analysis)
oo Automotive - radiators, condensers, evaporators, oil-coolers, charge-air-coolers
oo RHVAC - condensers, evaporators
oo Finned-tube HE - air-blast heater/coolers
oo Landfill-gas coolers - LP/HP
oo Heavy industrial HE
oo Mining - Elution systems - intercooler, heater
oo Stationery gen-set coolers
oo Petrochemical HE
oo Modular shell-and-tube HE
o HEAT-PUMPS
oo Design / rating / testing / manufacture / software development / research
oo Ultra-compact AWHP (air-to-water heat-pumps)
oo Low-cost AWHP for global market
o BRAZING SYSTEMS
oo Consulting / process development / CAB furnace specialist / manufacturing / research
oo ALUMINIUM
ooo CD (Composite Deposition) technology
ooo Particle-brazing technology
ooo Fluxless brazing
ooo Nocolok
oo COPPER-BASED
ooo Cuprobraze® (anneal-resistant copper fin – high strength-brass tube brazing)
ooo Xbraze (anneal-resistant copper fin-copper tube brazing – in development)

Experience

  • Senior Partner RareTechSEA · Freelance Jan 1986 – Present 38 yrs 11 mos Vientiane, Vientiane Prefecture, Laos I have operated as a freelance Engineer for many years, with the occasional medium-term posting - depending on what came up at the time.

Education

  • Self Study PhD (thesis in progress), Computational Physics, Dissertation in progress 2007 – 2024 Topic: The Wave Nature of the Navier-Stokes Equations
  • Chulalongkorn University PhD (in progress), Computational Physics, 8 specialist subjects, dissertation in progress 2004 – 2007
  • Natal University, Durban, Natal Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Cu Laude 1982 – 1985
  • Technikon Natal, Durban Technical Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, T1 & T2 1980 – 1981 Completed T1 & T2 levels, before moving on to Natal University