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Hans D. Baumann is a German-American inventor and engineer. He has registered over 200 patents and produced 105 publications. He is known internationally as a valve specialist and is an expert on aerodynamic noise of gases and he is a frequent contributor to the NEWSMAX Magazine INSIDERS website.

Life

Baumann came to the United States from Germany in 1953, as an exchange student. He holds degrees from and Northeastern University, and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia Pacific University.

Baumann has worked as Chief Engineer at W. & T. Co., a valve supplier in Germany; Manager of Research & Development at Worthington S/A in France; Director of Engineering at Cashco, Inc., in the U.S.; Vice President of Masoneilan International, Inc.; and Senior Vice President of Technology for Fisher Controls. In 1977, he founded H. D. Baumann Assoc., Ltd., manufacturing control valves; the company was subsequently acquired by Fisher Instruments, and is now part of Emerson Process Management.

Baumann is a licensed Professional Engineer in four states and a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

Awards

• Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation
• Inductee "Process Automation Hall of Fame"
• Life Fellow Member of the American Society mechanical Engineers.

Publications

• "Top-heavy management drains companies", InTech, May 2008
• "Outsourcing—Good or Evil?", Mechanical Engineering
• Control Valve Primer: A User's Guide (ISBN 1556176406)
• The Ideal Enterprise (ISBN 0533141850).
• Hitler's Fate: The Final Story (ISBN 1847481353).
• Building Lean Companies: How To Keep Companies Profitable As They Grow (ISBN 978-1-60037-488-3)
• The Vanished Life of Eva Braun (ISBN 978-1-4489-5136-9)
• Atomic Irony, how German Uranium helped to defeat Japan (ISBN 978-1-944393-10-6)

Significant scientific publications

• Source: INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICAL COIMMISSION, Geneva, Switzerland. IEC Standards: 60534-2-1, 60534-8-3, 60534-8-4.
• Baumann, H.D., "A unifying Method for Sizing Throttling Valves Under Laminar or Transitional Flow Conditions", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 115, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 166–168
• Baumann, H. D., 'A Method for Predicting Aerodynamic Valve Noise Based on Modified Free Jet Noise Theories," ASME Paper 87-WA/NCA-728, December 1987.
• Baumann, H. D. and George W. Page Jr. 'A Method to Predict Sound Levels from Hydrodynamic Sources Associated with Flow through Throttling Valves,' Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 43, No. 5, September–October 1995 _pp. 145–158.
• Baumann, H. 0., "Determination of Peak internal Sound Frequency Generated by Throttling Valves for the Calculation of Pipe Transmission Losses,' Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, March–April 1991, pp. 75–82.
• Contributing Author of I.I. NOISE AND VIBRATION ENGINEERING, (ISBN 978047144942-3)
• Contributing Author to: PROCESS CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION, (ISBN 0-8493-1081-4 )

References

1. "Rethink e-mail, meetings, computers". SeacoastOnline.com. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
2. ^ "Automation Founders Circle: Dr. Hans Baumann". ISA. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
3. "Automation Leaders | Five of Automation's Biggest Hits". Control Global. Retrieved 2011-02-23.

External links

• Criticism of Hitler's fate: "Hitler’s Fate, according to Dr. Hans D. Baumann", Counterknowledge

• Living people
• American business writers
• American inventors
• German emigrants to the United States
• American technology writers
• Case Western Reserve University alumni
• Northeastern University alumni
• Columbia Pacific University alumni
• 21st-century American historians
• 21st-century American male writers
• American male non-fiction writers