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Austin, TX, US

Oakland, California, United States

Specialist process design engineering focusing on Rare Earth beneficiation, industrial electrochemistry, and fluorination.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Responsible for the R&D Development, Piloting and Demonstration of a novel Direct Dry Fluorination (DDF) process for the single step fluorination of rare earth, light metal and radio-active metal carbonates to produce >99.5% pure fluorides for downstream processing.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Evaluation, Development, and Economic Assessment of Engineering Facilities:We assess and optimize engineering facilities by analyzing operational efficiency, identifying improvements, and conducting feasibility studies. Our economic evaluation includes cost-benefit analysis, financial modeling, and lifecycle costing to ensure project profitability and.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for the execution and delivery of technical projects required for the commercialisation of the Magrathea Metal's Novel Technology Stack to produce electrolytic magnesium metal from seawater and bitterns brines. Responsibilities include: -Project fundraising through grant applications, seed round and Series-A.-Managing the engineering team.

Oakland, California, United States

My responsibilities included day-to-day management of the research and development team towards scaling up the Magrathea technology stack from laboratory scale to pilot scale. This included project planning, management and equipment design/construction/operation, experimental work on electrolyte preparation, scoping work on raw material preparation and.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Senior process design engineer on various fluorochemical and technology integration and scale-up projects with a niche specialty in fluorochemical materials - www.thermtron.co.za. Project planning, cost estimation, financial planning, financial modeling, contract negotiation, and techno-economic evaluation. Research and development specialist. Specialist.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Process design engineer on various fluorochemical and technology integration and scale-up projects with a niche specialty in fluorochemical materials - www.thermtron.co.za. Project planning, cost estimation, financial planning, financial modeling, contract negotiation, and techno-economic evaluation. Research and development specialist. Specialist.

Pelindaba

Assigned as research engineering to the Delta-F (Inorganic Fluorine R&D division of Necsa) where Ryno was responsible for the design, evaluation, construction, and operation of a wide variety of systems utilising AHF and F2 for the production of inorganic fluorine compounds. Design and Development of a Neodymium Fluoride Pilot Plant. Design and evaluation.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

COMSOL Multiphysics CFD simulations of various reactors as well as heat and mass transfer systems.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Assisting during tests and examinations, marking of relevant papers and assignments.Classes included: Particle Analysis and Separation ThermodynamicsBio-Chemical EngineeringChemistry

Centurion, South Africa

Design and construction of a biological treatment process to be used in the decontamination of irradiated nuclear grade graphite.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

The company organised a series of events in around Pretoria. Venues included local nightclubs and historic landmarks.

Midrand, South Africa

Design of a calcium carbonate clarifier. Design and research on chemical treatment of water contaminated with chromium(VI).

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Researcher on the changes in mechanicalproperties of certain SAPPI products with changing humidity. Data was laterused in supervisors’ masters’ dissertation. General office work.

Phd Chemical Engineering, Chemical Process Technology, Phd

Activities and Societies: Part-time PhD studies, full time process engineering experience.Development of a rare earth compounds and.

Post Graduate Program In Data Science And Business Analytics, Data Science And Business Analytics

Meng Chemical, Masters Degree In Chemical Engineering, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: IChemE, SAIChe and ECSADissertation titled “A Transient Computational Fluid Dynamic Study of a Laboratory-Scale.

Beng (Honours) Chemical, Honours In Chemical Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: SAIChe and ECSAGraduated in First class. Subjects: Numerical methods and optimisation, Polymer processing.

Beng, Chemical Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: SAIChe and ECSAGraduated in the First class Specialisation: Reactor design Research: Biological treatment of.