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ALAN W. WEIMER

Industrial Experience

PROFESSIONAL LICENSING

 

Licensed PE - State of Colorado (# 20279)

 

 

Industrial Experience

 

The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI (1980 - 1996)

 

1980-1983: Sr. Research Engineer, Organic Chemicals Research

1983-1987: Project Leader, Chemicals Research/Engineering Research & Development

1987-1991: Research Leader, Ceramics & Advanced Materials Research (C&AMR)

1991-1994: Research Associate, C&AMR

1994-1995: Technical Leader, C&AMR

1995-1996: Associate Scientist, C&AMR

 

Co-Inventor of Commercial Technology

 

Invention, Fundamentals, Development, and Commercialization of the "Rapid Carbothermal Reduction" Process for Producing Super-Ultrafine Ceramic Powders

 

Additional Industrial (Non-Ceramics) R&D Contributions

 

Developed a Low Cost Melt Polymerization Process for the Manufacture of Polycarbonate Resin

Developed a Fluidized Bed Agglomeration Process for the Manufacture of Superadsorbent Polymers

Developed a Fluidized Bed Polymeric Coating Process for the Timed Release of Agricultural Chemicals

Developed a Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactor Process for the Manufacture of Methyl Methacrylate Monomer

Developed a High Pressure Fluidized Bed Fischer Tropsch Process for the Manufacture of Mixed Alcohols

Chairman of The Dow Chemical Company Technology Status Analysis Teams for (1) the Manufacture of

Hydrogen Peroxide by a Novel Membrane Process (Sarnia, Ontario) and (2) the Catalytic Extraction

Process for Recovering and Recycling Compounds from Hazardous Chlorinated Wastes (Freeport, TX)

Dow Chemical Company U.S. Area Dioxin Task Force

 

            

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