Featured Services
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Laboratory Audits and Data Evaluation
- Laboratory audits, data management, laboratory contract oversight and process improvements. On-site laboratory inspections; full-volume PT samples including statistical reduction of results.
- Creation of “value index” for price performance metrics.
- Locus Technologies EIM (Environmental Information Management) database implementation and EDD format on behalf of Honeywell.
- EQuIS Environmental Database implementation and EDD format on behalf of Honeywell.
- Development of algorithms to demonstrate cost per record for a centralized database.
- Negotiation of laboratory Master Service Agreements on behalf of Honeywell.
- Data validation.
- Spectral interpretation.
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Petroleum, Gasoline, Coal Tar (MGP) and PCB Fingerprinting, and Forensic Analyses
- Identification, interpretation (GC/ GCMS) and fingerprinting of PCBs associated with waste oils, tissues, sediments and soil matrices.
- Aroclor confirmations by high resolution congener identification using mathematical algorithms (PCA, LDA (linear discriminatory analyses), FALCON, etc.) to identify sources and the impact of weathering.
- Petroleum and waste tar (MGP) forensic analyses using chemical and statistical methods (PCA, LDA, PLS (partial least squares), correlation analyses and multivariate regression, etc.).
- Variogram analyses.
- Laboratory and data management to support forensic projects (i.e., extended 8270-SIM, PIANO, and ASTM fingerprinting methods).
- Sampling plans and execution for forensic data collection.
- Forensic investigations for Lake Onondaga, Gowanus Canal, and Quanta-Edgewater.
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Development and Evaluation of Innovative Waste Treatment Technologies:
- Elucidation and mechanism for high pressure catalytic hydrodehalogenation of chloro and bromocarbon wastes in support of UOP, Des Plaines, IL and Shell Oil.
- Co-inventor of Immobilization of Lead and Cadmium in Solid Residues from the Combustion of Refuse using Lime and Phosphate (U.S. Patent 4,737,356).
- Co-inventor of Removal of Organic Pollutants from Wastewater (U.S. Patent 5,543,052).
- Manage R&D permits for waste treatment.
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Technology Evaluation
- Provide services to determine if an identified technology fits market needs, meets the potential sponsor/purchaser’s requirements, and is commercially reasonable.
- Competitive intelligence.
- Identification of scale up and pilot plant requirements
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Sensor Technology
- Dissertation – polymer diffusion and reaction kinetics in senor technology
- Statistical and chemical evaluation of Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) in support of major state agency litigation, cost recovery and purchasing specifications.
- Evaluation of statistical algorithms and predictive analytics for equipment condition monitoring using electrical current loads, acoustic patterns, vibration signals and heat generation for planned maintenance events and prevention of catastrophic failures.
- Inventor of Optical Detection of Oxygen (U.S. Patent 5,043,285).
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Expert Testimony and Litigation Support
- Extensive experience in working with attorneys in litigation preparation and in public hearings.
- Patents (and patent litigation) including claim construction and prior art evaluation.
- Extensive deposition experience; expert witness reports and supporting affidavits.
- Product and process failures.
- Evaluation of laboratory data for overturning NOVs.
- Strategy and expert witness support to clients in civil trials, DOJ and EPA criminal enforcement actions.