Name:
John Gerlach
Country:
USA
City:
Las Vegas
State/Province:
NV
ACS Member:
Member
Local Section:
L600,Southern Nevada
International Chapter:
Technical Division Membership:
D531,Small Chemical Businesses Division
Technical Division Membership Emeritus:
Subdivision Member:
ACS Activities:
Current ACS activities
As Chair, getting fall 2011 series of local meetings organized. Rewriting bylaws. Getting prepared for elections.
Company/Institution Name:
Career Stage:
Professional
Research and Special Interests:
Busy pushing lifetime project list past 100. Commercial installations in 26 states and on 6 continents. Invent process for removing Hg from crude oil at gathering station; build and run pilot plant, Argentina. Consulting chemist for stabilization of As in Cu smelter waste. Invent process for removing Hg and As from oil field produced water -; high speed light weight equipment suitable for off-shore use; Thialand. Rework separations chemistry to achieve 10 PPB lead discharge limit at lead smelter; several plants, USA. Develop process for removing Se from phenolic sour water. Technical coordinator pre-commercialization 200,000 ton ore processing test for new copper ore deposit. Consulting chemist for process and equipment upgrade at 3,500 GPM wastewater treatment facility at munitions plant; USA. Water recycling to dissolve underground caverns in salt domes; USA. Consulting chemist for mobile water/oil/wax/solids separations plant used to clean up abandoned oil pipelines in central Asia; Republic of Georgia. Technical advisor, oil/sand separation pilot plant testing for processing oil field produced sand; successfully run pilot plant, Angola. Debug MTBE plant, make operational, wastewater treatment process for gas scrubber blowdown; Saudi Arabia. Invent arsenic removal process for petrochemical plant feedstock; Thailand. Chlorine disposal process. Numerous ground water clean up projects.
ACS: Local executive committee, Rep. to Western Region Steering committee, Chair-elect Southern Nevada Section, recently back from Arizona consulting trip on stabilizing arsenic in mine waste.
Area of Expertise:
Inorganic Chemistry, Extractive Metallurgy, Petroleum, Environmental, Wastewater Treatment
Years of Expertise: