Joel Shertok

B.E. – Chemical Engineering – The Cooper Union (New York, NY) – 1971
M.A. – Chemical Engineering – Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) – 1973
Ph.D. – Chemical Engineering – Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) – 1976

• President – Process Industries Consultants, Inc. – Newark, Delaware
• Advanced Plasma Solutions, Malvern, PA – Director of Technology
• Visiting Research Scholar – School of Chemistry, Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology
• Rochester Midland Corporation, Rochester, New York: Senior Vice President, R/D, QA, Safety/Regulatory
• Graver Technologies, Newark, Delaware: Vice President – Technology
• Pall-Gelman Sciences Corporation, Pensacola, Florida: Senior Director, Membrane Development
• Amoco BioProducts Corporation, Naperville, Illinois: Manufacturing Manager
• Amoco Performance Products, Atlanta Georgia: Senior Product/Operations Manager – Pre-Preg Products
• Amoco Performance Products, Bound Brook, New Jersey: Senior R/D Group Leader – Pre-Preg Products
• Union Carbide Corporation, Bound Brook, New Jersey – R/D Group Leader – Specialty Products
• Union Carbide Corporation, Bound Brook, New Jersey – R/D Engineer – Cumene/Phenol/Bis-A

Publications —

– Author: “The Art of Scale-up” (Absolutely Abby Press / Absolutely Abby LLC) (www.artofscaleup.com) (12/2018)
– With S. G. Kassas, “Plasma Sparks New Cold Sterilization Technique,” Food Engineering, November 2017
– With S. Kilambi: “How Modern Businesses can Increase Their Productivity using Machine Learning” (Mirror Review – 1/2019)

Vacuum UV (VUV) Photo-Oxidation of Polyethersulfone (PES) – with Gerald Takacs/ RIT Press

Surface Modification of Polyethersulfone (PES) with Ozone – with Gerald Takacs/RIT – Ozone: Science & Engineering
The Journal of the International Ozone Association — Volume 41, 2019 – Issue 5

Surface Modification of Polybenzimidazole (PBI) with Microwave Generated Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Photo-oxidation – with Gerald Takacs/RIT – Current Microwave Chemistry, Volume 9, Number 1

– Patents:

Patent Pending: Non-Caustic Cleaning Formulation for Heavy Food Soils
§ 7,189,322, Charged membrane
§ 7,507,697, Method for oxidative cleaning of food processing equipment
§ 7,022,274, Gas sintered carbon block & method
§ 6,849,185, Charged membrane
§ 6,083,393, Hydrophilic membrane
§ 6,039,872, Hydrophilic membrane

Certifications and Affiliations
• Member – American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Member – SOCMA (Specialty chemicals professional organization)
• Member – American Chemical Society
• Member – Delaware Biosciences Association
• Member – American Radio Relay League (Amateur Radio Operator – WB2PPY)
• Member – Chemical Consultants Network (CCN) – Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Certified Instructor – Phil Crosby Quality Systems (Winter Park, Florida)
• Graduate of the GMP Institute (Louisville, Kentucky)
• Graduate – numerous courses on Project Management
• Delivered paper on KPI’s and Quality at Wade Hanson Pharmaceutical Symposium – Boston, MA
• Delivered presentation to an RIT course on Entrepreneurship re Incubators and Technology Development

Who’s Who in Engineering

• Certified Instructor – Phil Crosby Quality Systems (Winter Park, Florida)
  • Graduate of the GMP Institute (Louisville, Kentucky)