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. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Life [ edit ]

Baumann came to the United States from Germany in 1953, as an exchange student. ^[1] He holds degrees from [Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve University)] and Northeastern University , and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia Pacific University . ^[2]

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 . ^[2]

Baumann is a licensed Professional Engineer in four states and a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. ^[2]

Awards [ edit ]

• Honorary Member of the International Society of Automation ^[2]
• Inductee "Process Automation Hall of Fame" ^[3]
• Life Fellow Member of the American Society mechanical Engineers.

Publications [ edit ]

• "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 [ edit ]

• 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 [v.2])

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

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