Chris Wiley Email & Phone Number

San Ramon, Ca, Us

As a Controls Engineer at Chevron, I support and maintain automation systems for a variety of chemical process units. These include Solvent Deasphalting, Steam Methane Reforming, Pressure Swing Adsorption, Hydrogen Compression, sour gas Amine Contacting and Regeneration, and Boiler Feed Water Treatment. The units are a mixture of 1960's vintage units on the Honeywell TPS/TDC DCS platform and 2010's vintage on the Honeywell Experion DCS platform. All incorporate mixtures of networked Allen Bradley PLC's and integrated Safety Instrumented Systems.The primary aspiration of this role is optimization, utilizing process engineering skills to identify opportunities for automated optimization of plant conditions. This happens through both improvements to regulatory PID controls as well as implementation and maintenance of advanced controls (Chevron uses Aspen Tech's DMC platform primarily).Optimization stands on the shoulder of functioning regulatory automation, however, so often this role involves daily plant support, troubleshooting and re-engineering of control schemes that "just never worked quite right," and updates/upgrades to human machine interfaces and process alarming.

London, England, Gb

Process controls and automation engineer for a 1950's vintage gasoline plant (on the Honeywell TDC-3000 system) and a 2010's vintage crude oil distillation unit (on the Emerson DeltaV system). Key responsibilities include control scheme design and implementation for continuous operating processes, as well as a heavy focus on troubleshooting and improving existing systems.

London, England, Gb

Process engineer for BP's largest Vacuum Residue Coking Unit. Responsible for unit health monitoring, process optimization, debottlenecking and reliability improvements of two highly integrated process units. Key technologies involved in this role included fired heaters, coking drums and equipment, distillation, wet gas centrifugal compressors, hydrotreating reactors, and mercaptan-oxidation Merox systems.

London, England, Gb

Accountable for the planning and execution of the next 11A Pipe Still (1950's vintage crude unit) Turnaround from the Operations perspective: shutdown and startup, control of work, isolation strategy, planning and coordination with Capital Projects and Turnaround Maintenance workforces, etc.

London, England, Gb

-Develop and justify the Turnaround scope for a 1950's vintage crude unit's next TAR.-Develop, implement, and document the capabilities of online chemical cleaning of crude unit preheat exchangers, using novel preparation methods to increase efficacy.-Develop and justify capital project ideas for a 1970's vintage crude unit, with a focus on increasing capacity, reliability, and safe operating.- Support the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of a heavy crude unit and gas plant through daily troubleshooting and long term unit health monitoring.- Improve the automated system used for unit health monitoring, as well as use field measurements to discern the health of otherwise unmeasured systems.-Support operations during shut downs and turnarounds, including inspection of distillation columns and overseeing pigging of furnaces.

Bozeman, Mt, Us

-Development of mathematical model of cancer cell-death using gold nanorod-assisted, laser-induced hyperthermia (heat death).-Involves building the model with pen and paper using engineering conservation equations, then coding it in the Python language, making extensive use of Numpy and Scipy libraries.-The project will optimize treatment parameters to maintain viability of non-cancer cells, using a simplex algorithm to vary the parameters.-Output of the project will inform practical trials of gold nanorod-based cancer treatments, by giving researchers an understanding of how best to utilize their control parameters, such as laser strength, treatment duration, concentration of gold nanorods, etc.

London, England, Gb

-Member of BP's Crude Knowledge Team, which collects and curates BP's database of information about crude oils globally.-Responsible for building and assuring crude assays.-Responsible for tracking and reporting qualities of crude cargoes sent to the Whiting Refinery.-Generation of fitting factors for a process model of the Galena Park Splitter.

Bozeman, Mt, Us

The research I have worked on focuses on the solubilization of biomass, a crucial barrier to the economic feasibility of bio-derived fuels and specialty chemicals.

London, England, Gb

-Creation of a velocity map of the refinery's rich and lean amine systems, for identification of corrosion/erosion risks due to high velocities.-Development of an alternate control scheme for the main fractionator and light cycle oil stripper of a fluid catalytic cracking unit.-Development, planning, and execution of a step-test to investigate the impacts of slurry pumparound rate on light cycle oil product qualities on main fractionator of an FCCU.-Development of a 5-year schedule for the refinery's fired heater Title V compliance testing, taking into account projected unit rates, turn around schedule, and many other constraints.

London, England, Gb

-Creation of a hydraulic model of the refinery's jet fuel/diesel blending system using AFT Fathom.-Statistical analysis of the impact of gasoline tank heel volume on the reliability of online octane certification.-Investigation into a potential bias in online octane certification compared to lab testing.-Creation of a mass-balance based predictive model of pentane product qualities.