Professional Summary: This Ph.D is one of the world's leading experts in lead-acid battery technology. His expertise covers aspects of design, materials, processing, testing, reverse engineering, and failure analysis. His knowledge in this area also includes lead chemistry, lead-acid battery recycling, and lead-acid battery research and development. He has extensive experience with the research, production, and process development of electric batteries. He is knowledgeable of rechargeable batteries, maintenance-free batteries, and load-leveling batteries. He has tested and reverse-engineered batteries for many specific applications including portable devices and tools, electric vehicles, UPS, and SLI. He has designed and constructed all types of battery testing equipment, including apparatus and methods for accelerated life testing, discharge specifications verification, cycle-life testing, and impedance measurement. Over the course of his career, he has designed and installed numerous battery monitoring systems based on coulometers, strip-chart recorders, stand-alone dataloggers, and computer-controlled dataloggers. He has studied and reported on many types of battery chargers including ferroresonant, SCR, switch-mode, and pulse chargers. He has developed hydrometallurgical processes for recovering cadmium and lead from spent batteries. |