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Hire Desmond A.

Laos

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Consulting Engineer, Thermal Engineering Specialist, Heat-Exchanger Designer, Brazing Furnace Expert, Heat-Pump Designer

Profile Summary

o Advanced Heat-Transfer Technologies o Advanced Brazing Technologies o Nearly 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 CAB brazing furnace expert o Brazing expert on Cuprobraze® development project o HEAT-EXCHANGERS o Consulting / design / rating / testing / manufacture / software development / research o PHE/BPHE (includes software development and big data analysis) o Automotive HE - radiators, condensers, evaporators, oil-coolers, charge-air-coolers o RHVAC - evaporators, condensers o Finned-tube HE - air/gas coolers/heaters o Landfill-gas coolers - LP/HP o Heavy industrial HE o Mining HE - Elution - heaters, inter-coolers/economizers o Stationery gen-set coolers o Petrochemical HE o Modular shell-and-tube HE (MSTHE) - Gossalter-style, Transon, XTRAN o HEAT-PUMPS o Design / rating / testing / manufacture / software development / research o Ultra-compact AWHP (air-to-water heat-pumps) o Low-cost AWHP for global market o BRAZING SYSTEMS o Consulting / process development / CAB furnace specialist / manufacturing / research o Aluminium o CD (Composite Deposition) technology o Particle-brazing technology o Flux-less brazing o Nocolok o Copper-based o Cuprobraze® (anneal-resistant copper fin – high strength-brass tube brazing) o Xbraze (anneal-resistant copper fin-copper tube brazing – in development)

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Materials Science & Engineering
• ☆ Corrosion
• ☆ Powder Metallurgy
• ☆ Composite Materials
• ☆ Engineering Education
• ☆ Engineering Physics
• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Computer Hardware
• ☆ Supercomputing
• ☆ Parallel Computing
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Blockchain Technology
• ☆ Automotive Engineering
• ☆ Computer-Aided Engineering
• ☆ Mechanical Engineering
• ☆ HVAC Design
• ☆ Mechanical Design
• ☆ Engineering Thermodynamics/Thermophysical Engineering
• ☆ Systems Engineering
• ☆ Engineering Economics
• ☆ Petroleum Engineering
• ☆ Heat Transfer & Calorimetry
• ☆ Fluid Mechanics
• ☆ Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ☆ Environmental Engineering and Technology
• ☆ Industrial Engineering
• ☆ Manufacturing
• ☆ Continuous Process Manufacturing
• ☆ Lean Manufacturing
• ☆ Manufacturing Optimization
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Computer Simulation/Computational Modeling
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Pattern Recognition
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence
• ☆ Deep Learning
• ☆ Wave Mechanics
• ☆ Applied Mechanics
• ☆ Theoretical Mechanics
• ☆ Fluid Dynamics
• ☆ Thermodynamics
• ☆ Theoretical Physics
• ☆ Computational Physics
• ☆ Applied Physics
• ☆ Mass Transfer
• ☆ Microfluidics
• ☆ Renewable Energy
• ☆ Solar Energy
• ☆ Geothermal Energy
• ☆ Wind Turbine Design
• ☆ Wind Energy
• ☆ Hydropower
• ☆ Oil & Petroleum
• ☆ Applied Mathematics
• ☆ Mathematical Models
• ☆ Mathematical Optimization
• ☆ Mathematics Education
• ☆ Mathematical Control Theory
• ☆ Computational Sciences
• ☆ Mathematical Physics
• ☆ Differential Equations
• ☆ Chaos Theory
• ☆ Computational Mathematics
• ☆ Pure Mathematics
• ☆ Mathematical Analysis
• ☆ Integral Equations
• ☆ Knowledge Management
• ☆ Process Engineering
• ☆ Engineering Design
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ Scikit-learn
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Reverse Engineering
• ☆ Concept Development
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Technology Scouting
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Presentation Design
• ☆ Process Design
• ☆ Instructional Webinars
• ☆ Skills Training
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Instructional Materials
• ☆ Release Notes
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Course Content Writing
• ☆ Business Operations
• ☆ Business Strategy
• ☆ Small Business
• ☆ Entrepreneurship
• ☆ Business Intelligence
• ☆ Innovation Management
• ☆ Project Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining

Product Development Formulation, Product Evaluation, Material Sourcing, Manufacturing

Work Experience

Managing Partner

Rarefied Technologies (SE Asia) - RareTechSEA

January 1986 - Present

Education

PhD Engineering (Dissertation)

Self (sponsored by RareTechSEA)

January 2008 - Present

PhD Engineering (Candidate)

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

January 2004 - December 2007

BSc. Eng. (Mech)

Natal University, Durban, South Africa

January 1982 - December 1985

T1 & T2 - Higher National Diploma

Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa

January 1980 - December 1981

Certifications

• BSc. Eng. (Mech)

  Natal University, Durban, Natal, South Africa

  December 1985 - Present