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Bob Cunningham, President - Resume |
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Pertinent Experience
Bob's specialties include
industrial cooling and boiler
water, process water, water
preparation and waste water
treatment.
Bob has a
special talent for solving
difficult problems, and for
working together with vendors
and facility personnel to
optimize water system
operations.
Mr. Cunningham's extensive
experience in water management
services includes:
- Refinery &
Petrochemical
Systems:
- 1965-Present,
designed, implemented,
and serviced boiler,
cooling water, process,
and wastewater treatment
programs and
investigated damage and
failure issues in a
large percentage of the
refinery and
petrochemical facilities
in North America.
- 1982-1994, designed
and serviced the water
treatment program for
the Isomax Division of
the Chevron, El Segundo
Refinery waste heat
boilers and cooling
systems. Corrected
problems left by
previous vendors and
resolved issues caused
by flow-assisted
corrosion, fatigue
corrosion and related
issues.
- Metallurgy,
materials selection and
equipment design
problems.
- Problems exaggerated
due to process
contamination.
- Wastewater treatment
systems, including API
separators, DAF systems,
IAF systems, and
biological treatment
plants.
- Process corrosion
and deposition issues.
- Recovery of reuse
and wastewater from
industrial and municipal
systems as cooling tower
make up.
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- Electric utility steam
systems:
- Economizer, boiler,
super heater, and
turbine deposit and
corrosion problems.
- Unusual condensate
corrosion problems.
- Steam purity
problems.
- Velocity and
multiple phase
flow-accelerated
corrosion phenomena.
- Iron, steel, & basic
metals systems: Work
included low flow, high heat
flux applications,
including blast furnace and
continuous caster systems,
plus wastewater.
- HVAC systems in
commercial and institutional
buildings:
- Corrosion,
deposition, and
biological problems,
including legionellosis
control.
- Issues involving
improper equipment
design and materials
selection, as well as
faulty construction,
hydrotesting, cleaning,
passivation, and
preservation.
- Oil production systems,
including steam floods:
- Dissolved air
flotation systems.
- Clarification and
filtration processes.
- Boiler feedwater
preparation.
- Cooling and
wastewater applications.
- Food processing: 1965-Present, designed,
implemented, and serviced,
dozens of projects involved
boiler, cooling, process
water treatment including
horizontal still retort,
continuous cooker, can
washer, meal plant, and
wastewater processing.
- Paper Manufacturing:
Developed and helped
implement boiler and cooling
water treatment programs in
several major paper
production facilities.
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Positions Held
- President, International
Water Consultants, Inc.,
Grass Valley, CA
- Principal Consultant,
Arthur Freedman Associates,
Grass Valley, CA
- President and Chairman,
Chemisis, Inc., Grass
Valley, CA
- Vice President,
Industrial Group, Aqua Serv
Engineers, Los Angeles, CA
- Vice President,
Marketing & Sales Zimmite
Corporation, Cleveland, OH
- Chemicals Marketing
Manager, Baltimore Aircoil
Co., Jessup, MD
- R&D Group Manager,
Corrosion Inhibitors, Calgon
Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
- District Manager (Arco
Performance & Betz Entec)
and Area Manager (Betz Entec
& Olin)
- District Representative
(Betz Entec & Olin)
- Product Manager, Cooling
Water Treatment Chemicals,
Calgon Corporation,
Pittsburgh, PA
- Assistant Product
Manager, Boiler Water
Treatment Chemicals, Calgon
Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
- Laboratory Technician,
Raw Materials Lab,
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.,
Springdale, PA
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Education
- BS Chemistry 1964, The
University of Pittsburgh
- MBA 1968, University Of
Pittsburgh
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Certifications
- California Registered
Professional Corrosion
Engineer
- Certified Corrosion
Specialist, The National
Association of Corrosion
Engineers
- HACCP Certified by USDA
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Professional Societies
- AISE, member.
- ASHRAE, Member, Former
Member Standard Committee
188P on legionellosis
control. Former voting
member 188S.
- ASME, member of Thermal
Research Committee,
Sub-Committee on Industrial
Boiler Chemistry.
- Association of Water
Technologies, former member
of Board of Directors.
- Cooling Technology
Institute, formerly
President, Vice President,
Chairman of the Water
Treatment Committee and
member of Board of
Directors.
- International Water
Conference, Former Member,
Advisory Board, recipient of
the IWC Award of Merit, 2001
- National Association of
Corrosion Engineers (NACE),
formerly Vice Chairman,
Chairman-Elect of Committee
T-7A, Corrosion by Cooling
Water, and National
Symposium Chairman.
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Litigation Support Experience
- Expert Witness in
multiple matters involving
corrosion in institutional
and commercial building
water systems.
- Expert Witness in
multiple matters involving
legionellosis acquired in
building water systems
- Expert Witness in
multiple matters involving
mesothelioma acquired in
cooling towers.
- Expert Witness in
matters involving
aspergillosis acquired in
cooling tower systems.
- Expert Witness in
matters involving the
chemistry of potable,
service, cooling, boiler,
and waste water systems.
- Deposed multiple times
in matters involving the
above issues.
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