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Dr Wayne A. Davies is a full-time consulting engineer who has been operating from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney since October 1988, where he also teaches courses, notably Design and Applications. He has had experience as a research scientist as well as a chemical engineer and he routinely seeks to combine the two disciplines with innovation and economy in mind. As a consultant he is often called on to examine processes or plants for the purpose of technical and financial audits or to report on their economic investment potential. He is also asked to act from time to time, as a troubleshooter, problem solver and as an expert witness in patent disputes or in litigation following plant failure. Other interests are in designing and building full-scale commercial chemical plant and in particular special designs for cryogenic heat exchangers and cyclone separators. He has had appointments that have taken him to: Germany, UK, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia and China.

For a more detailed range of his activities see Reports and Publications.

Dr Davies' colleagues and occasional collaborators include:

• Professor Rolf Prince. A distinguished chemical engineer of international reputation with interests in virtually every area of chemical and process engineering. He is a respected authority on the industry including: distillation, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, technical feasibility, economics, technology transfer and business perspective. RGHP performed the so-called pinch analysis for the wax emulsion plant described elsewhere which allowed optimisation of the heat recovery network. He now teaches part-time in the Department.
  
  
• Dr R. Malik. Raj Malik is a senior lecturer in the Department where he teaches the biochemical engineering course. He has had many years of experience working in industry on biological processing, fermentation techniques and downstream processing. He has designed and built plant for the production of vaccines and solvent recovery and most recently a 50 litre research and production scale fermenter. He is currently engaged in recovery of carbon dioxide from industrial effluents.
  
  
• Colin Putt. An experienced chemical engineer who formerly worked for ICI (now Orica). He has been 40 years of experience in the process field and is routinely asked to design major industrial plant and has to his credit: hydrochloric acid plant, oxygen vaporisers in Indonesia, a solvent recovery plants in Victoria and an alumina waste recovery plant. He is also a great innovator with a keen sense of efficient design to minimise costs. His encyclopaedic knowledge of technical and practical areas is a great asset.
  
  
• Don White. Formerly of ICI (Orica), Don White has managed, at one time or another, most of the major chemical plants at Botany. He has extensive experience in plant operations both technically and financially. This includes the specification for a new ethylene plant and a feasibility study for a replacement chlorine plant. His chemical engineering roles for the company included the construction, commissioning and management of an ethylene plant upgrade and construction management of an upgrade of a surfactants plant. In August 2000, DOW and WAD collaborated on a technical review of chlor alkali and associated vinyl and PVC plants in Indonesia, sponsored by AusAID.