Desmond A.

Consulting Thermal Engineer, Engineering Specialist, Designer, Inventor

• Advanced Heat-Transfer (Thermal) Technologies
• Advanced Brazing Technologies
• Over 40 years experience
• 36+ countries

• Highlights
• Leader of Novel Composite Deposition (CD) aluminium particle-brazing development team
• Built Engineering Superteam
• Member of International “Cuprobraze” copper particle-brazing development team
• Built Engineering Superteam

• Controlled atmosphere furnace expert
• CAB - batch, continuous
• Vacuum
• Hybrid
• “Inching” furnace “unit-braze” development project
• Smelting furnace cooling expertise - water and air cooling
• Hydrogen gas integration in conventional CAB (Nitrogen)
• Oxide control
• Reaction dynamics

• Heat-Exchangers
• Design / rating / optimisation / testing / manufacture / software development / research
• PHE/BHE (includes software development and big data analysis)
• Automotive HE
• RHVAC
• Marine
• Landfill-gas coolers
• Heavy Industrial
• Mining
• Large generators
• Petrochemical HE
• Modular finned-tube HE
• Smelting furnace cooling systems – Fin-fan coolers, furnace cooling – water, air
• Mining elution system energy recovery
• Economiser
• Heater - steam, hot thermal oil

• Heat-Pumps
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• Design / rating / testing / manufacture / software development / research
• Ultra compact AWHP (air-to-water heat-pump)
• Low-cost AWHP for global market
• Large process heat-recovery systems

• Brazing Systems
• Furnace process development / CAB furnace specialist / manufacturing / research
• Aluminium
• CD (Composite Deposition) technology (new, novel brazing technology)
• Particle-brazing technology
• Foil brazing technology
• Vacuum brazing
• Nocolok
• Gas-brazed
• Copper
• Copper + Brass
• https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
• Anneal-resistant copper fin
• High strength-brass tube brazing
• Inching furnace development (fin-copper tube brazing – in development)
• Copper + Copper
• XBraze
• Anneal-resistant copper fin
• Special multiport copper tube
• Novel fin-tube brazing technology
• Copper alloy absorption optimisation
• Minimise alloying
• Brazing profile critical to minimise copper annealing during braze process

• Engineering Simulation
• Numerical Analysis
• CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
• FEA (Finite Element Analysis) for fluid flow
• FEA for heat transfer and stress
• Chemical, Engineering Process
• Process simulation
• Engineering Flow Diagrams (EFD)
• Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
• Chemstations Chemcad®
• Pressure-drop and performance simulators - various
• Advanced Spreadsheets
• Thermal computation and analysis
• Engineering computation and analysis
• Scripting Automation
• Python code for simulation
• Dynamic code for data analysis

• Visualization
• Create clear and informative visualizations

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Optimisation of various heat-transfer processes
• Ongoing research into Deep Learning and Reinforcement learning
• Vertex AI (Google) - LLMs, agents, process automation, integration