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SUMMARY CV
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With over 50 years of
experience in all aspects of the CEMENT industry, Dr. Gouda has established a
consulting firm in the US to offer his "extensive hands on" in the industry for
both greenfield and existing cement plants, throughout the world. |
This expertise covers: raw
material prospecting and evaluation, raw mix design and burnability, production,
operation, maintenance, quality and quantity controls, environment, health and
safety aspects, clinker microstructure, general lay-out and engineering, sales
and marketing, production cost and methods of cost savings, process including
heat and materials balance, equipment sizing, selection and sourcing project
implementation and progress of the construction/erection of greenfield cement
plants, feasibility (including technical, commercial and financial) and
appraisal studies (for financial institutes), environmental assessment, market
studies, equipment list for new plants, tender documents, bids evaluation,
contract negotiation, plant valuation and financial plan and projections.
From 1987 to 1999, Dr. Gouda
was with The International Finance Corporation
(IFC) /The World bank,
Washington DC. He was the cement specialist and was in charge of about 35
cement, ceramic tiles and aggregate projects, throughout different developing
countries and financed by IFC. The total capacity of these plants exceeded 40
million tons annually and included the largest cement plant capacity in the
world. During this period, Dr. Gouda travelled extensively throughout the world
to:
- Appraise and evaluate the new projects, discuss with the sponsor all the
technical aspects, raw materials, plant site, project and production cost,
market and cement prices, environment, management and training, and project
implementation.
- Supervise the existing projects in the portfolio, to review their
operation, environment, production cost, cement prices, profitability and
market.
Dr. Gouda is a specialist in
financing cement projects
and putting together the financial plan. He has strong contacts and is well
known in the cement field worldwide. During the period with IFC, he published
several papers related to IFC and the Cement Industry, as well as writing about
200 reports.
In 1982, Dr. Gouda joined
Kuwait Institute For Scientific Research (KISR). He held the position of
Manager of the Materials application Department. He developed and initiated
several research activities relating to indigenous raw materials,
building/construction and cementitious materials.
In 1975, Dr. Gouda joined
Fuller company
of USA. as a Senior Process Engineer, then as a manager of The Cement Technology
Department. He promoted the technical expertise of Fuller company, did the
process calculation (materials and heat balances) for several cement plants and
evaluated the clinker microstructure of several clients of Fuller by the
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). He extensively published several technical
papers related to raw mix, burnability, process design and clinker grinding and
microstructure.
In 1970, Dr. Gouda joined
The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, as a Graduate
assistant to conduct graduate studies and research for MS. and Ph.D. in Ceramic
Science. He obtained his MS. in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1975. His thesis were all
in Cement. During his research, he obtained the highest strength for a cement
paste in the World, by using the hot pressing technique. He evaluated the
microstructure morphology of the cement paste by using the SEM, from early ages
to four years old. He published several papers, during this period.
In 1966, Dr. Gouda was
delegated officially from The Egyptian Government to the Algerian Ministry of
Industry and Energy, Algeria, in a specially designated position to head and
supervise a mission for prospecting and selecting raw materials for new cement
plants in several locations though out the country.
Dr. Gouda received his B.Sc.
degree in Chemistry from The Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt,
in 1957. He joined The Arabian Cement Co. (who had the third suspension
preheater plant in the world, at that time), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (after
spending a few months at Helwan Portland Cement, Helwan, Egypt) in a position
responsible for quality and quantity control of the plant and served as the
technical manager of the plant. In 1962 Dr. Gouda returned to Helwan Portland
Cement and held responsibility of quality and quantity controls and
prospecting of raw materials for a new Cement Plant in Egypt. He carried out
several studies on the Egyptian raw materials for new cement plants.
Beside, the above positions
and during 1980-1987, Dr. Gouda worked as a consultant for The World Bank
and United Nation Development Program (UNDP). He travelled on several
special Cement assignments for both organisations for a period ranging from one
to six months to several countries, including Turkey, Burma, Tunisia, China and
India.
Dr. Gouda is active world
wide. He travelled extensively during the last two and half decades. He was a
member of the Executive Committee of THE INTERNATIONAL CEMENT MICROSCOPY
ASSOCIATION, Texas, USA., where he was Co-editor of the annual
Proceeding and Program Chairman from 1981 until 1994. Prior to his
appointment to IFC, he published over than 60 technical papers in different
international Cement magazines and the International Congress on Chemistry of
Cement. Also, he has written more than 150 reports related to Cement and
building materials. He is experienced in evaluating the Clinker microstructure
by SEM.
Those who are interested in
discussing potential consulting needs, please contact Dr. Gouda at the below
coordinates.
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