Focus of work is process design -- specializing in crude and vacuum units, plus various other distillation and separation processes. Most recent work: - Extensive test runs including field measurements of crude units, vacuum units, and gas plants to understand equipment performance and to serve as the basis for revamp designs. - Feasibility study for revamp of a crude/vacuum unit to process a lighter crude slate with a throughput increase of nearly 50% while increasing distillate… Show more Focus of work is process design -- specializing in crude and vacuum units, plus various other distillation and separation processes. Most recent work: - Extensive test runs including field measurements of crude units, vacuum units, and gas plants to understand equipment performance and to serve as the basis for revamp designs. - Feasibility study for revamp of a crude/vacuum unit to process a lighter crude slate with a throughput increase of nearly 50% while increasing distillate recovery. - Grass roots design of a condensate fractionation unit that processes feed with 65 API gravity. - Design to revamp a crude unit for improved operational reliability. - Detailed feasibility study for conversion of a visbreaker unit to a crude unit, including sized equipment list and cost estimate. - Conceptual study for increased capacity at a sat. gas plant, including rating all unit equipment. - Fluid hydraulics, tray loads, and exchanger modelling for a FCC gas plant revamp design. - Used field data to rate new equipment after the start-up of a revamped crude/vacuum unit. Show less

Specialist in crude and vacuum units, and various distillation processes. General knowledge of most refinery process units and equipment, plus extensive experience with refinery process simulation and reactor models, including crude/vacuum, hydrotreaters, FCC, alkylation, hydrocracker, reformer, coker and petrochemicals. Principal work has been on refinery operations and profitability improvements, process design, equipment reliability, troubleshooting, refinery reconfiguration studies… Show more Specialist in crude and vacuum units, and various distillation processes. General knowledge of most refinery process units and equipment, plus extensive experience with refinery process simulation and reactor models, including crude/vacuum, hydrotreaters, FCC, alkylation, hydrocracker, reformer, coker and petrochemicals. Principal work has been on refinery operations and profitability improvements, process design, equipment reliability, troubleshooting, refinery reconfiguration studies, process monitoring and planning, process safety, refinery simulations, training, and project management. Clients have included over 60 different refineries in about 18 countries on 6 continents with capacities of 10,000 to 800,000 BPD. For example:Recommended improved process operations for 15 of these refineries requiring little or no investment with annual benefits of $330 million. Implemented $120 million/year by leading the changes onsite with 47 test runs plus developing procedures, action plans, and technical analysis documents Show less

Process Design Engineer 1993 - 1995• Assigned to Fuels/Specialty Refinery Plant Site. Served as leader of project development from idea inception, through economic evaluation and facility design, to management approval of funding. More specifically, performed process design functions relating to new installations, revamps, and revisions. Process design functions encompass conceptual design, process modeling and simulation, economic evaluation, process flow sheets, P&ID’s, heat and… Show more Process Design Engineer 1993 - 1995• Assigned to Fuels/Specialty Refinery Plant Site. Served as leader of project development from idea inception, through economic evaluation and facility design, to management approval of funding. More specifically, performed process design functions relating to new installations, revamps, and revisions. Process design functions encompass conceptual design, process modeling and simulation, economic evaluation, process flow sheets, P&ID’s, heat and material balances, equipment specification and design, contractor coordination, and commissioning assistance.Process Contact Engineer 1991 - 1993• Refinery unit responsibilities included lube dewaxing, solvent deasphalting, hydrotreating, and vacuum fractionation. Performed tech service functions relating to day-to-day process and project problem solving. Process engineering functions encompassed monitoring unit performance, optimizing unit efficiency, originating operating procedures, and troubleshooting unit problems. Project engineering functions encompassed conceiving, justifying, designing, and implementing refinery projects for improving process efficiency, increasing product recovery, and complying with government regulations. Show less

Stewarded refinery energy consumption, designed a water wash recycle for the FCC Gas Con, conducted surveys of the crude preheat exchangers and hydrotreater and reformer reactors.