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Mr.
Hardin holds both a Chemical Engineering Degree (1960) Univ. Cincinnati
and an MBA (1984) Queens Univ.(Charlotte). He has continued studies at
Carnegie-Mellon(1961), Education Courses in California for teaching,
several industrial specialty courses thru Professional Societies, and
Ethics and Philosophy. He also been a registered engineer in North
Carolina for over 30 years.
He
has published papers on Fluid Bed Drying, Carbon Paste Heat Conduction,
Fluid Handling, Valves, Specialty Pumps, and several process reviews.
These have been published in Chemical Engineering, Fluid Handling Systems,
AIME-Light Metals, and Plant Services.
Mr.
Hardin has served as a process area manager, development engineer for
plants and equipment, marketing manager for international engineering and
construction services, and specialty consultant for a variety of organic,
plastic and elemental manufacturing processes. In construction managing
several multimillion dollar projects, he directed all activities to
achieve fulfillment of requirements within months, instead of typical
years from their ground breaking to start-up. He served as plant safety
representative for an international facility which achieved company award
level recognition in the second year of foreign plant operation.
There are six (6) 3-PDH courses prepared by Mr. Hardin, that are available
on PDHengineer. They cover Pumps, Valves, Heat Exchangers, Drying,
Agitators & Mixers, and Evaporation and Condensation. Currently Mr. Hardin
continues his consulting and article preparation. |
