William Neil Howell, Principal Reports
I have seldom been in a position to generate reports of a non-confidential nature
suitable for publication. The list that follows is therefore
comprised mostly of internal corporate reports that were not
released. Often these reports were prepared with tight deadlines and
with a specific "customer"
in mind, so the style tends to be succinct and to the point. Still, I
have always been proud of the technical depth and quality of most of
my reports, which compare favourably with many of the publications of
technical and marketing research personnel that I have worked with,
reviewed, or administered.
Almost all of the reports as listed below were essentially my own investigations,
analysis and reporting. In a few cases initial direction and
objectives came from senior scientists (M.A.Sc. thesis and earlier
CANMET work in particular). Extensive computer modelling is used in
most of the work, using several different computer languages and
advanced usage/macro programming of applications such as spreadsheets
and text retrieval software.
The big exception to my primary authorship is the Neural Networks journal
special issue of selected papers from the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks 2005 in Montreal:
http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05/ For that publication I was one of
four guest editors.
Most of my work at ICI Sulfur Products research group was never produced in a
major report format - for example: cleanup of smelter gas derived SO2
& H2SO4; pasturize bio-enzymes (B.T.), process evaluation/costing
of slow-release polymer coatings for fertilizers, and formulation/
application of canola seed coatings. Some of this work was in the
form of process design and cost estimation for senior management
decisions on advanced R&D projects, while other work was in the
form of highly technical engineering support to other researchers.
Business plans and annual reports arising from my business development
activities at NRCan are not referenced, but I prepared very detailed
and complete updates and forecasts on a regular basis, using
sophisticated software tie-ins to corporate information systems.
- Bill Howell, "Ring
around the rosies" - A short presentation about Pandemics
and the Sun to Toastmasters – Hard Disk Cafe, Calgary,
04Oct06.
- William Neil Howell "Genetic specification of recurrent neural networks: Initial thoughts", Proceedings of WCCI 2006, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, paper#2074, IEEE Press, pp 9370-9379, 16-21 July 2006
- Bill Howell "Are we ready for global cooling?" - A short presentation to Toastmasters – Dows Lake, Ottawa, 14Mar06. Needs corrections and comments! (some time later...)
- Bill Howell 2006, "Genetic Specification of Recurrent Neural Networks: Initial Thoughts", Presentation in the Special Session on Neural Network Models and Applications in Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, and Neuro-Genetics, World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2006, Vancouver, 21-27Jul06 (available from author)
- Bill Howell "Genetic specification of recurrent neural networks, draft concepts and
implications" draft document, unpublished, Ottawa Jan06,
precursor to the IJCNN06 paper above
- D. Prokhorov, D. Levine, F. Ham and W. Howell, guest editors
"IJCNN2005", Neural Networks, Volume 18, Issues 5-6, Pages
457-860 (July-August 2005)
- Bill Howell "Junk
DNA and Neural Networks: conjecture on directions and implications",
Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks, Bioinformatics and
Neuroinformatics - A Synergistic Approach , International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks 2005, Montreal 31Jul-04Aug05
(unpublished in rough draft form only!!)
- Bill Howell "Telemining Safety/Regulatory Issues" Mining
Automation Program final reports (Dyno Nobel, INCO, Natural
Resources Canada, Sandvik Tamrock), 61 pages, February 2001
- W.N. Howell, Jozef Stachulak, Don Peloquin, Andreas Mayer "Assessment
of Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) technology at INCO's Stobie mine"
Proposal for the Diesel Emissions Evaluation Program (DEEP), >120
pages, March 1999
- W.N. Howell "Regional chloralkali trends" Internal corporate
report, ICI Forest Products, Montréal, 69 pages (including 20
pages extracted from a consultant report for comparison), July 1992
- Bill Howell "Lime soda project analysis" Internal corporate
report, ICI Forest Products, Montréal, 9 pages (condensed
output of a major process/costing/market analysis), February 1992
- Bill Howell "Employee survey and assessment of the progress of Total
Quality Management at ICI Forest Product's head office",
Internal corporate report, ICI Forest Products, Montréal
?month? 1990 (No longer have this in my possession)
- Bill Howell "Q'Nial for the Amiga" User's guide and reference
for a computer language implementation ported from Unix by the
author (5 year, part-time project!), 25 pages, November 1990
- Bill Howell "North American chloralkali forecast" Analysis/
presentation for major clients, ICI Forest Products, Montreal, >60
pages of material adapted per client, August 1990
- Bill Howell "Historical trend regressions - a simple approach"
Internal analysis & communications with chemical industry market
experts, ICI Forest Products, Montreal, 19 pages, February 1990
- Bill Howell "Survey/ forecast of hydrogen peroxide utilization for
pulp and paper" Internal corporate report, ICI Forest Products,
Montréal ?date? 1989 (No longer have this in my possession)
- W.N. Howell, J.A. Golding "Bench Scale Mixer-Settler Study of the
extraction and stripping of uranium from solution"
Hydrometallurgy, v19 pp11-30 1988 (published)
- W.N. Howell "Methods of boiling oleum" and "Jet pump usage
in an oleum boiling process" Internal assessments, C-I-L
Research Center, Mississauga, 19 pages, April 1987
- Bill Howell "Translation and analysis of data from the Rheometrics
Pressure Rheometer (RPR)" Internal corporate report, Canadian
Fracmaster, Calgary, 57 pages, December 1986
- Bill Howell "Preliminary design and costing of a pipe rheometer"
Internal corporate report, Canadian Fracmaster, Calgary, 37 pages,
November 1986
- Bill Howell "Frictional pressure loss charts for hydraulic
fracturing fluids" Internal corporate report, Canadian
Fracmaster, Calgary, 23 pages, October 1986
- Bill Howell "A process for the production of UF4 at uranium milling
sites" CANMET report (not officially finalized before I started
a new job - initial stages completed, project was thereafter
terminated) with Gord Ritcey=s collaboration, 52 pages, May 1986
- Bill Howell "The recovery of zinc from sulfate leach liquors"
CANMET report (not officially finalized before I started a new job -
although it was complete) with Ron Molnar's collaboration, 43 pages,
May 1986
- W.N. Howell "Physical and chemical aspects of the solvent extraction
of uranium by a tertiary amine" M.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering,
University of Ottawa, 345 pages, September 1985
- W.N. Howell and B.H. Lucas "Iron removal from ferrous chloride leach
liquors" CANMET divisional report MRP/MSL 85-74 (TR), Energy
Mines & Resources Canada, Ottawa, 32 pages, May 1985
- W.N. Howell and B.H. Lucas "Fluid bed leaching of uranium (two-zone
process)" CANMET divisional report MRP/MSL 85-1 (CF), Energy
Mines & Resources Canada, Ottawa, 45 pages, May 1985
- W.N. Howell, G.M. Ritcey, and J.A. Golding "Physical and chemical
aspects of uranium extraction from H2SO4 leach solutions and
stripping with ammonium sulfate@ poster session, International
Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC'83), 9 pages, March 1983