Our Team

Our Expert Team

Surendra K. Singh, Ph.D.

Founder & President

Dr. Singh is a thermal scientist and well-known expert in chemical reactivity and dust explosion testing. His experience includes the evaluation of the stability of chemicals and their fire and explosion hazard potential using various instrumental techniques including; adiabatic calorimetric, minimum ignition energy (MIE) apparatus, 20-liter sphere for dust and gas explosion (KSt value), BAM oven for flammability, and blasting cap testing for shock sensitivity. Dr. Singh has been involved in incident investigations, where self-heating resulted in thermal runaway or catastrophe. His work has included determining the origin and cause of thermal runaway reactions and/or explosions. Dr. Singh’s technical work in battery technology includes; failure analysis, process hazard analysis, thermal hazard evaluation of battery & battery components, and electrochemical performance evaluation including cycle life/calendar life for various applications (Medical devices, portable power, power tools, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), etc.) Prior to starting Belmont Scientific, Dr. Singh worked at ioKinetic, ioMosaic, Exponent, TIAX, LLC and Arthur D. Little, Inc. Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. in Process Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a MS in Organic chemistry from Kanpur University, India, and BS in Chemistry, Zoology, and Botany from Lucknow University, India.

Samynaathan "Samy" Viswanathan, M.Eng

Associate Engineer

Mr. Samy holds a Master of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He brings over four years of industry experience, having worked with Technip Energies, Ashland, and Tesla prior to joining Belmont Scientific, Inc. At Technip Energies, he contributed to process design, process simulation, relief valve sizing, flare network design, and a range of plant safety studies within the Oil & Gas industry. In addition to his industrial experience, Mr. Samy has a strong research background, with four published research articles and research experience in batteries, supercapacitors and nanomaterials.

Mitch Lairmore

Director of Business Development

Mr. Lairmore worked at Eastman-Kodak from 1986 to 2007 in various capacities ranging from Business Analyst to Business Development Director. He them moved to Dawnbreaker where he provided commercialization assistance to more than 300 companies awarded Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects from these agencies; NSF, DoE, US Navy, DoT, DHS, EPA, NIH, US Army, US Air Force, MDA and DARPA. He is a Certified Global Business Professional – National Association of Small Business International Trade Educators; and a Certified Live Plan Expert Advisor. He has authored several publications on SBIR commercialization. He has a MBA from University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business Administration Rochester, New York and a BS in Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (1980)

Dwaine Coates

Senior Consultant

Mr. Coates is a Battery Consultant with 40 years of experience working with all types of batteries. His expertise includes; design, engineering, modeling & simulation, technology, manufacturing, root cause analysis, applications, documentation, safety, and reliability. Mr. Coates has experience working in the following industries; aviation, military, electric vehicle, alternative energy, and aerospace. He current has SSBI/DOD/SCI/TS clearance. He worked at Boeing as a Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) on the battery subject matter and was an expert and technical lead engineer. He also founded and led the Boeing Enterprise Level Battery Community of Practice for 15 years. He authored a chapter in Linden’s Handbook of Batteries, as well as more than 80 technical publications and conference presentations.

Casey Houston

Principal Consultant

Mr. Houston has over 20 years of experience in process safety management (PSM) with deep expertise in pressure relief and flare system (PRFS) design. Casey is an active member of the AIChE, DIERS, and the API Subcommittee on Pressure Relief Systems (SCPRS). Mr. Houston is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in the state of Minnesota and a certified professional project manager (CPPM) from the University of St. Thomas.
Mr. Casey Houston is the President and Principal Engineer of Chemitics. Prior to founding Chemitics, he was a Senior Partner with ioMosaic Corp. Casey was the PRFS Practice Leader responsible for technical support, guidance, quality assurance, and training across PRFS projects. Earlier in his career, Casey worked as a process safety consultant at Berwanger Inc., where he was responsible for leading and executing relief system design projects for several refineries and gas plants with a focus on hydrotreater operations. While at Berwanger, Mr. Houston was also responsible for the testing and development of the Pressure Protection Manager (PPM) flare system hydraulic solver.

Partners & Industry Associations

Chemitics, LLC

Chemitics provides consulting solutions for oil, gas, and chemical process industry companies. Their areas of expertise include: Pressure Relief & Flare System Design; Analysis and Management; Process Safety Information Auditing and Management; Process Simulation; and Project Management. Chemitics’ comprehensive approach is designed to practicably ensure management of your process safety information.
For more info visit https://www.chemitics.com

Bright Calcs, LLC

Bright Calcs LLC (BC) is a Process Safety & Loss Prevention Consultancy focused on performing accurate calculations, ensuring robust results, and providing elegant & cost-effective solutions to decision-makers; i.e., we partner with you when the critical actions have to be decided.
For more info visit https://www.brightcalcs.com

OUR LINKS

OUR LINKS

  • Oct 1st, 2019:
  • Belmont Scientific received NSF SBIR Phase-I grant “Development Of Safe, Energy Dense, High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries” for the amount of $225K

ADDRESS

  • +1 (978) 677 - 9671
  • info@belmontscientific.com
  • 210 Stedman Street,Unit 3 Lowell,MA 01851,USA
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