Tal Golesworthy’s CV

Profile

A highly experienced, well regarded and dynamic individual who combines in-depth research, development and project engineering expertise with excellent communication and presentation qualities enabling him to excel when providing optimum solutions to complex problems.

Utilises his management co-ordination skills, specialist expertise and operational hands-on approach to provide technical support and advice from project conception to completion, enabling clients to maximise efficiency and increase competitive advantage.

Key skills

• Project management from concept stage through to completion, encompassing project definition, scheduling, finance, progress monitoring, reporting and presenting
• Communicator, in written and verbal form, to all types of audience
• Problem solving including, problem analysis and definition, solution formulation and testing
• Technical consultancy covering bio-engineering, energy, combustion and pollution control, including equipment selection, design, specification, tender evaluation and operational problem solving
• Functional specification and creative design of novel engineering solutions
• Innovation, design and development engineering of energy based engineering systems.

Achievements

• Inventor, fund raiser, principal development engineer of the External Aortic Root Support
• € 840 000 EU CRAFT SCAPA project leader – UK/Polish Air Pollution Control
• 2 x SMART award winner for a novel cyclone development and intelligent filter controller
• Specified gas cleaning plant for 8 major UK industrial boilers, aggregate contract value over £12 million
• Presentation of state-of-the-art gas cleaning/filtration developments to major international conferences and industry leaders
• Council member of The Energy Institute and member of EPSRC Peer Review College

Career History

April 1995 – Present: Consultant Engineer, Environmental Development Technology

Combustion and gas cleaning consultant in EDT partnership.

Joint responsibility for all business decisions and sole responsibility for all technical decisions relating to EDT’s particulate control business. This includes: proposal writing, contract negotiating, feasibility studies, laboratory testing, sidestream plant design and commissioning, test programme design, filter operation and tuning, trouble shooting on existing large scale filter plant.

Projects have included:

• conceiving, proposing, building team and finance for the External Aortic Root Support project
• conceiving, proposing and winning an €840, 000 EU CRAFT project involving UK and Polish SME’s
• development of a novel filter medium involving design of laboratory and field test rigs and trials
• development of a novel cyclone (DTI funded).
• computer modelling of modifications to large industrial cyclones to improve collection efficiency
• assessing atmospheric pollution from iron smelters in southern India (UN funded)

1985 – April 1995 Coal Research Establishment, Cheltenham

Dec 1986 – April 1995: Project Manager (Industrial Development Branch)

Research and development project management including most aspects of: project proposal drafting, project costing and scheduling, experiment/test design, plant specification, plant design/development, plant commissioning, plant operation/trouble-shooting, data acquisition, data analysis, reporting and presenting.

Responsibilities included:

• management of a range of combustion/gas cleaning projects including: £200k two year project relating to flue gas filtration on coal fired equipment and “dry scrubbing of process off-gases” bringing 16 industrial collaborators together with £150k being funded through DTI’s Carrier Technology Programme
• operational trouble shooting on full-scale commercial plant for major industrial companies. Achieved a £250k saving for one key customer
• experimental programme scheduling, test plant commissioning, installation and maintenance both directly and via sub-contractors
• management of university contracts, including multi-cyclone R&D (Imperial College)

Feb 1985 – Dec 1986: Assistant Project Manager (Environmental Control Branch)

Working within the Fluidised Bed Combustion Support Team, operating throughout the UK involving non destructive testing of internal boiler heat exchange surfaces and cold modelling of erosion of boiler heat exchange surfaces.

1982 – 1985 Information Scientist (Patents Department British Coal, Headquarters, London)

Involving patent name and subject matter searches across most technological fields including chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc. Patent drafting and prosecution including substantive examination.

1977 – 1982 Scientific Technician (Environmental Control Branch. Coal Research Establishment, Cheltenham

Working on pilot plant concerned with development of fluidised bed combustion (FBC) and flue gas conditioning equipment.

Qualifications / continuing education

• HNC Chemistry 1977 – 1979
• Certificate of Supplementary Study (Advanced Analytical Chemistry) 1980
• HTEC Electronics 1980 – 1982
• Chemical Engineering for Scientists 1990
• Gaseous Effluent Control 1990
• Engineering Project Management 1991
• Applied Hazard and Operability Study 1992
• Entry to Confined Spaces 2001
• Deer Stalking Certificate Level 1 2008

Professional memberships

• Chartered Engineer (Mature Candidate Route – Thesis and Viva)
• Member of the Institute of Energy (Chairman South Wales & West of England Branch 1996 – 1999, Council Member 1996 – 2006, Executive Member 1999 – 2004)
• Founding Council Member of The Energy Institute
• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Member of the Filtration Society (Council member 1994 – 1999, Treasurer 1997 – 1999)
• Associate Member IChemE 1993 – 1996 (Council member 1994 – 1996)
• Member Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Peer review College (1997 to present)

Personal details

• Status: Married, no children

Interests 

• 20th century European history, croquet, music, skiing, shooting

Publications / presentations

Unknown unknowns: the aorta through the looking glass, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, June 2008, Tom Treasure, Tal Golesworthy, Warren Thornton, Michael Lamperth, Raad Mohiaddin, Robert H. Anderson, Steve Gallivan and John Pepper

The Exovasc: A pilgrimage of innovation, Presentation to Oxford University Dept. of BioMedical Engineering, 14 May 2007, Thom Building, Tal Golesworthy

A Review of Industrial Flue Gas Cleaning, Presentation to Filtration Society meeting, 10 May 2007, Heath Conference Centre, Runcorn, Tal Golesworthy

Design close to my heart, Presentation to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society, 29 November 2006, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Tal Golesworthy

Reducing fear and the risk of death in Marfan syndrome: a Chaucerian pilgrimage, The British Journal of Cardiology, Volume 13, Issue 4, July/August 2006, Tal Golesworthy, Tom Treasure, Michael Lamperth, John Pepper

My Exostent experience, Presentation to the Marfan Association UK Information Day, St George’s Hospital, Saturday 11 March 2006, Tal Golesworthy

The Exovasc™: A pilgrimage of innovation, Presentation to the East Midlands Branch IMechE, Catalis Conference Centre, Derby, 31 January 2006, Tal Golesworthy

The Exovasc™: A pilgrimage of innovation, Presentation to the Wales Innovation Network, Technium OpTIC, St Asaph, 27 October 2005, Tal Golesworthy.

Design close to my heart, Presentation to the South Wales Branch IMechE, Cardiff University, 10 May 2005, Tal Golesworthy

Surgery for the Aortic Root: A New Idea, Presentation to the Marfan Association UK Information Day, St George’s Hospital, Tooting, Saturday 12 March 2005, Tal Golesworthy, Tom Treasure

The tailor of Gloucester: a jacket for the Marfan Aorta, Lancet Vol 364, October 30, 2004, T J Golesworthy, M U Lamperth, R Mohiaddin, W Thornton, J Pepper, T Treasure

A Review of Industrial Flue Gas Cleaning, Presentation to “Air & Gas cleaning” conference, Filtration Society, Manchester, 19 November 2002, T J Golesworthy

A Twentieth Century Pandora’s box?, Filtration & Separation, June 2000, T J Golesworthy

The Cremation Process and Emissions to Air, Presentation to The Federation of British Cremation Authorities, NEC, 23 March 2000, T J Golesworthy

New Developments in bag filter cage design: The ZETA clip, Filtration & Separation, March 2000, R G Holder, T J Golesworthy & I Hilditch

Flue gas cleaning in a global market: a UK perspective, Filtration & Separation, October 1999, T J Golesworthy

A Review of Industrial Flue Gas cleaning, Filtration & Separation, May 1999, T J Golesworthy. (2000 Institute of Energy Roscoe Prize winning paper)

Flue gas cleaning – who needs it?, Energy World, No. 266 February 1999, Institute of Energy, T J Golesworthy

Developments in flue-gas cleaning for coal-fired boiler plant, Presentation to 8th Conference on Boiler Technology, “Current problems in the construction and use of boiler plant”, Silesian Technical University, Szczyrk, Poland 24 – 27 Nov 1998, T J Golesworthy

New Perspectives in Gas Cleaning, Presentation to IBC conference “Incineration: update on Policy, Regulation and Technology”, Okura hotel, Amsterdam, 21/22 September 1998, T J Golesworthy

Gas-solid separation with a rigidised Co-polyimide (RCP) based filter medium, Presentation to 4th International conference on high temperature filtration, St Wolfgang, Austria, 11 – 13 May 1998, T J Golesworthy

Gas-solid separation with a rigidised Co-polyimide (RCP) based filter medium, Filtration & Separation, December 1997, pg 1033, T J Golesworthy, R G Holder & P N Davies

Waste to Energy, Industrial Environmental Manager, December 1997 – October 1998, T J Golesworthy, R G Holder & P N Davies.

Filters for combustion processes, Filtration & Separation, October 1997, pg 829, T J Golesworthy

Feasibility of high temperature filtration of combustion off-gases from small-scale incineration plant, Energy Technology Support Unit, renewables programme, Feb 1996, R G Holder, T J Golesworthy & P N Davies (awaiting publication)

SOx and NOx Control Techniques, SPS Gas Cleaning Manual, Vol XI, Gas Purification, Part 4, June 1995, R G Holder, T J Golesworthy, P N Davies

Filter fabric and Cage Material selection for Combustion Processes,, Presentation to 3rd International conference on high temperature filtration, Saalfelden, Austria, 22 – 24 May 1995, T J Golesworthy

Filtration of fine particulate material from flue gases in coal-fired processes, Institute of Energy Thesis, February 1995, T J Golesworthy

The Application of desulphurisation techniques to industrial coal fired stokers in the UK, Desulphurisation 3, Sheffield, 23 March 1993, R G Holder & T J Golesworthy.

Filter fabric selection for coal-fired flue gases, Presentation to 1st Lenzing high temperature filtration seminar, Schloss Fuschl, Austria, April 1992, TJ Golesworthy

Improvements to flue gas filtration technology, Final Report, European Coal and Steel Community, project No. 7220 – EC 012, 1992, T J Golesworthy

Improving fine particle removal from flue gases in coal-fired processes, Final Report, European Coal and Steel Community Project No. 7220-ED/809 September 1989, T J Golesworthy et al

Regenerating sorbents, UK Patent Application GB 2 135 661, September 1984, T J Golesworthy

Variable displacement pump, UK Patent Application GB 2 137 286, October 1984, T J Golesworthy

Improvements relating to seals, UK Patent Application GB 2 139 299, November 1984, T J Golesworthy

Hydraulic tool, UK Patent Application GB 2 145 648, April 1985, T J Golesworthy

Improvements in or relating to mineral mining machines, UK Patent Application GB 2 147 637, May 1985, T J Golesworthy

Improvements relating to collar splitters, UK Patent Application GB 2 154 922, September 1985, T J Golesworthy

Improvements in or relating to rack railway locomotive drive transmission, UK Patent Application GB 2 157 241, October 1985, T J Golesworthy

Materials Evaluation for Fluidized-Bed Combustion Systems, Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI CS-3511, Project 979-11, Final Report May 1984, A J Minchener, D M Lloyd, P T Sutcliffe, D C Read, I S Scott, T J Golesworthy, R S Courtney, J E Oakey

Materials Evaluation for Fluidized-Bed Combustion Systems, Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI CS-3511, Project 979-1, Final Report May 1981, A J Minchener, D M Lloyd, P T Sutcliffe, D C Read, I S Scott, T J Golesworthy, R S Courtney, R G Holder