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Dr. Zeynep Ayla is a chemical engineer with expertise in the areas of catalysis, reaction engineering, and fire and explosion investigation. At ESi, she specializes in fire, explosion, and chemical release investigations, in addition to catalyst performance in industrial systems, dust hazard analysis, industrial chemical process arbitration and patent cases, and consumer product litigation including fuel dispensing systems. With an experimental background, she has strong skills in catalytic synthesis and characterization, kinetic analysis, batch and flow reactor design, gas chromatography, and UV-Vis, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy.
Prior to joining ESi, Dr. Ayla was a graduate student researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her doctoral dissertation centered around understanding structural, kinetic, and mechanistic differences in metal oxide catalysts with varying reaction rates. She developed skills in catalyst design and characterization, reaction engineering, reactor design, and heat and mass transfer. More specifically, she has designed and built a reactor system for gas-phase epoxidation with hydrogen peroxide, developed kinetic models to understand substrate activation to form active forms of oxygen for oxidation reactions, and optimized time-resolved in-situ spectroscopy to observe active intermediates formed on reactive surfaces.
ESi's expertise spans dozens of industries and specializations organized across several practice groups, each staffed by dozens of in-house experts with the technical knowledge, hands-on expertise, and courtroom experience required to execute projects for and with our clients from start to finish.
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