Edward T. Woodruff, Inc. is a chemical engineering consultant company.  We are available for assignments inside and outside the US.

Outsource your engineering.  We can do your projects.

Major Accomplishes Summary

• Working in the chemical engineering consulting  role we convinced the Grace Construction Products Division to make calcium nitrite in the US by means of a process design and the manufacturing economics for it.  Provided the process design for their first calcium nitrite plant in Wilmington, NC.  Because this went so well was also commissioned to do the process design for their second plant for Augusta, GA.  Each plant was of economic value to the company in penetrating the re-enforced concrete corrosion inhibitor market..
• Provided a detailed process design for a calcium nitrite plant for Abocol in Cartagena, Columbia.  This study was of great value to them to make a determination if and how to move forward with the development and future commercial plan
• Designed our 4th calcium nitrite plant for a client in the Western US.  This detailed design, equipment costing and capital cost estimating was useful for the client to make a decision not to go ahead with the project because the economics were not favorable considering an economic downturn.
• We received the John C. Valor award for the development of a sea water desalination process.  This brought good press to the company and paved the way for a commercial scale desalination facility for the US west coast.
• The Grace Sugar Process development resulted in increasing the companies patent portfolio for this technology.  The Camet metal monolith chemical engineering consulting development resulted in an invention which combined the electrically heated part with the non electric part thus making the technology more marketable to the automobile industry.
• The Artificial Pancreas project resulted in an engineering scope study which was composed of process/equipment design and economics. This study was of great value to the Grace management as it gave an early on look at what the production cost implications would be for this product.    

The services we are offering are as follows:

• Chemical Engineering Consulting.
• Chemical Engineering
• Process Design Engineering
• Biochemical Engineering
• Biochemical Process Design
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biomedical Process Design
• Scale Up Projects to Piloting to the Commercial Plant
• Computational Research and Development
  
• Process Control Design
• Capital Cost Estimating (preliminary)
• Operating cost estimating and project financial analysis.

Skills and Capabilities

• Computational process development
• Process design
• Plant start up.
• Troubleshooting
• Reaction kinetics and equilibria, mass transfer, heat transfer, fluid flow
• Bubble column reactor design.
• Severe service valves.
• High speed turbo machinery.
• Filtration
• Mathematical models
• Dynamic simulation development and use.
• Excel spreadsheet expertise and Visual Basic macro development.

Education and Experience 

• 1962 graduate of Ohio State University with B Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering.
• Working Experience at W. R. Grace Research Division from 1962 to 1997. 
• From 1962 to 1970 was engaged in the Process Development Department in the experimental pilot plant development mode for mostly inorganic and organic chemistry projects.  Also managed this department. 
• From 1971 to 1973 was appointed to manage the engineering and production of Ecotrol air and water pollution control products.
• In 1974 started the Engineering Consulting Department   In this department, which we staffed and managed, provided process design and economic evaluations for directional support to the research program. 
• In January 1997 to the present started Edward T, Woodruff, Inc. to provide chemical engineering consulting services to the inorganic, organic, biochemical, and biomedical device industries.

Attributes

• Expert chemical engineering consultant in the process design and manufacture of calcium nitrite corrosion inhibitor.
• 46 years of unique combined production and research experience which makes us well qualified to scale up research projects to commercialization.
• Good understanding of how to motivate research people to develop the information necessary for scale up to pilot and production facilities.
• Wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and leadership in the world of chemical engineering consulting..