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Provide overall technical direction to tin smelting and refining operations including rotary smelting, vacuum distillation, and kettle refining.Process development and process optimization. Flowsheet development to process variable dross, slags, baghouse dusts, hydrometallurgical residues, Evaluate technical and economic feasibility in cooperation with sales, environmental, quality, vendors and customers. Pilot plant smelting and refining trials in coordination with operations. Create and manage process documentation – incoming and outgoing sampling, smelting, and refining. Arsenic removal, precipitation and stabilization to minimize recirculating load.

Process and technology development - Operations support to furnace, refining and casting including specification review for reagents and alloying additions.Identify and evaluate vendors - Determine process metrics and goals including risk evaluationSelection and application of batch management - Inventory, Scheduling, and Process ControlFocus Group Chair and Project Selection Committee, Center for Resource, Recovery and RecyclingPilot scale process testing and scale-upCustomer technical support in resolving product issues

Managed projects including full ownership for multiple workstreams, and multidisciplinary technical discussions with stakeholders on experimental design, performance and quality. Reviewed suppliers and developed frameworks, technical documents and best practicesProvided technical support and training during service visits to copper, zinc, manganese, and nickel electrowinning operations in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Manage relationships with global principals by responding to technical queries. Evaluated economic viability of industrial processes- NPV, IRR, payback time, etc. LEAN Manufacturing – KAIZEN for furnace, refinery, water treatment, and battery wrecker ISO 9001:2015 certified internal auditor – Audited Management Raw Materials Purchasing, Transportation, Quality Lab, Maintenance, EHS Presented technical, peer-reviewed papers in conferences worldwidePerformed bench-scale, pilot plant, and commercial prototype testing. Implemented plant-scale product improvement projects. Explore differentiating features and benefits of various components to benefit anode sales. Travel with sales worldwide for business development. Market research to determine anode market segmentationProduct Accomplishments:-Novel alloy development for anodes and lead-acid batteriesAnode- Coatings to alleviate hanger bar and solution line corrosionFailure analysis- Metallography, solution analysesSpecifications review of reagents and alloying elementsOperations support:- Process and materials engineering, and product developmentScrubber, Oxidation and Water TreatmentRecycling of copper EW slimes and refining drossesSelenium, arsenic and organics removal from solutionsIon Milling, Carbon Sputtering, and SEM.Process AccomplishmentsLi-ion battery recyclingRetrieval of in-process lead, tin and copperPlant-scale air sparging systemElectrodialysis of sodium sulfate

Olin Corporation produced stainless steel strip, ultra-thin copper and copper alloy foil for consumer electronics, bio-medical and automotive industries. Provided technical support to customers in US, Asia Pacific, and Europe, including specification review, process development and control, product development and quality. Applied metallurgical fundamentals to achieve desired physical, surface, mechanical, electrical and electronic properties. Performed materials analysis and developed test plans for outside testing including Auger Spectroscopy, SEM, EDX, Metallography, Tensile, Bend and Micro-hardness testing, IPC high and low cycle fatigue properties.

Operations support- Zinc roast, leach and electrowinning operations and copper smelting and electrowinning.