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Professor Burl Donaldson (USA) P.E, PhD, M. Eng, B. Eng is a Senior Power Engineer with over 40 years of extensive experience in Thermodynamics & Applications, Heat Transfer, Water Desalination, Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Combustion, Liquid & Gas Flowmetering and Flow Measurement Techniques. He is currently a Senior Professor at the New Mexico State University in the USA lecturing on Fluid & Thermal Sciences, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics . Concurrently, he is an Independent Consultant where he provides engineering consultancy services to various multi-national companies.

 
 


As a Senior Consultant, Dr. Donaldson worked for various international companies and organizations such as USA Vapor Corporation, TXT, Ace Oil USA , Nations Energy Company, Tartan Energy , KTech , Sandia National Laboratories and numerous insurance companies . Some of his various accomplishments include evaluation of an industrial burner design for reduced emissions, specified & operated large compressors for proof-of-principle component testing , compliance with NM fuel storage regulations and evaluation of oil accumulations for enhanced oil recovery potential . During his career life, Dr. Donaldson was the Director of Design & Development of the Enhanced Energy Systems Incorporated where he was responsible for the development of all equipment for the down-hole generation of high pressure , direct contact steam (two-phase water with nitrogen and carbon dioxide) in a heavy oil recovery application . He has also participated in the ASME code shop fabrication and certification of boilers . He also worked as the Director of Field Operations in the same company where he supervised all field activities including installation and operation of steam generator & support system and designed heat exchangers for engine water jacket and exhaust heat rejection energy utilization . Prior to that, he was employed in Sandia National Laboratories where he headed the Heat Transfer , Electrochemical Components and Deep Steam Project groups.

Dr. Donaldson's working experience in the academe includes being a Senior Professor of Engineering in the New Mexico Highlands University , Senior Professor & Chemical Engineering Department Head of one of the largest universities in the Middle East , Lecturer of Continuing Education at Sandia National Laboratories and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico . He has been lecturing on Fluid & Thermal Sciences , Fluid Mechanics, T hermodynamics, Material & Energy Balances, Flow Measurement Technologies, Natural Gas Processing, Cooling Tower Design , Heat Transfer, Heat Conduction and Combustion .

Dr. Donaldson has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Masters & Bachelors degrees in Chemical Engineering from the New Mexico State University and the University of Utah , USA . He has various patents related to Steam System, Combustion and Desalination. He has numerous publications & papers circulated and presented in various conferences world-wide.

 
     

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