Thomas A. Post

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Post Mixing Optimization and Solutions expert Thomas A. Post, Ph.D.

Dr. Tom Post served as VP of Mixing Technology at Lightnin, a subsidiary of SPX Process Equipment. While there, he discovered and patented better ways to produce copper and other base metals through liquid-liquid solvent extraction. He also played a key role in industrializing and optimizing up-pumping technology, which has been particularly beneficial for fermentation, hydrogenation, and crystallizers. Previously, Dr. Post worked at SmithKline & French Laboratories as an Associate Senior Investigator where he was responsible for improving selectivity and scale-up of new drug projects. While there, he introduced batch vacuum distillation and led a new pilot-lab for the scale-up of reactions and purifications. In 2000, Dr. Post established his own consulting company, Post Mixing Optimization and Solutions in Pittsford, NY, providing consulting and specialized services in optimization of mixing and chemical processes. Dr. Post provides consulting services to several companies in the areas of mining, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and general chemistry. Dr. Post has been very active in researching the influence of fluid mixing on the selectivity of chemical reactions, heat and mass transfer, scale-up, solids suspension, gas-liquid-solid contactors, liquid-liquid dispersions, power requirements, fluid flow patterns in stirred tanks and motionless mixers. Other specialties include the electrochemical method and separations technologies such as distillation and large-scale chromatography. He has more than 40 publications, countless presentations, 4 patents, and one book to his credit. He has given mixing seminars in over 30 countries. Dr. Post received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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