Theodore Garver

Experience

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  Lakehead University

  Nov 1991 - Dec 1997

  Assistant Professor of Chemistry

  Teaching chemistry including northern environmental chemistry, polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry. Research program in applied pulp and paper chemistry with a focus on peroxide pulp bleaching, paper machine efficiency, and colloid stability.

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  Alberta Research Council

  Jan 1998 - Apr 2010

  Sr Researcher
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  Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2016

  Research Lead - Industrial Measurements

  I engage in and direct research related to the development of new sensors and analysis systems for resource-based industries. I develop program plans and provide oversight for a research group of between 5-9 people. I engage with industry to identify process improvement and measurement solutions to improve productivity, product value, and environmental impact.

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  Innotech Alberta

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2019

  Provide leadership for the invention and development of new instrumentation for resource-based industries including oil sands extraction and processing. Leading the applied spectroscopy group and working closely with the MSE (measurement systems engineering) group to deliver new products. I am the Program Leader for the Applied Spectroscopy at InnoTech Alberta. We research and develop new instrumentation for resource based industries. I have been involved in the invention, design, commercialization and application of novel instrumentation to measure and characterize dissolved and colloidal substances in water since 1992.

  • Principal Scientist

    Oct 2017 - Dec 2019

  • Program Leader- Applied Spectroscopy

    Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
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  Garver Consulting

  Dec 2019 - now

  Technical Consultant: Industrial Instrumentation and Process Improvement

  I use industrial chemistry and applied spectroscopy application for process improvement and new product development in pulp and paper, energy and water processing industries. Specialist in pulp and paper chemistry including pitch pacification, pulping, bleaching, paper making, pulp washing and treatments to prevent scaling. Projects typically involve data analytics and modeling of industrial processes using combinations of fundamental chemistry and physics and empirical data-fitting approaches.