Clara Buchanan Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

• Technical owner for all Lithium refinery utilities process engineering scopes and equipment – coordinating between construction, detailed engineering, operations, and onshore/offshore third parties
• Managed and drove engineering deliverables to completion on schedule, including process design, P&IDs, isometrics, list list, HAZOP, and procurement lists
• Developed site standards for steam piping design criteria and was sought out as Subject Matter Expert on steam piping design by other Tesla projects
• Mentored engineers and interns, identifying initiatives for junior engineers to complete, allowing the group to prioritize tasks and increase overall productivity

Austin, Texas, United States

• Streamlined Lithium refinery technology processes by descoping an underperforming engineering firm, successfully taking over and leading the design and procurement of pumps, tanks, and instrumentation
• Developed site-wide hydraulic model to optimize control valve sizing and pinpoint piping loops requiring load and pressure balancing adjustments
• Proactively identified and closed gaps in specialty item procurement and piping design to prevent construction delays and maintain project timelines

Houston, Texas, United States

• Led chemical recycling contaminant study for site-specific impact to process units and product quality
• Co-authored chemical recycling contaminant yields, fractionation, and removal handbook to standardize site studies
• Modeled contaminant fractionation and removal to augment limited literature and experimental data

Annandale, New Jersey, United States

• Directed teams to enable startup of new circulating fluid solids pilot plant unit on accelerated timeline
• Managed advanced recycling thermal decomposition research program and coordinated new laboratory bench-scale unit design to facilitate scale-up (inventor on pending patent applications)
• Designed experimental testing in bench-scale fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit to increase yields
• Improved process modeling capabilities to assess FCC and refinery configurations

Houston, Texas Area

• Developed process modeling cases and provided fluid catalytic cracking technology insights to projects organization
• Designed hardware for fast-paced project in collaboration with mechanical division
• Provided site support to multiple refineries during equipment inspections and unit start-ups
• Headed program in work group to facilitate on-boarding and career development of new employees

Corpus Christi, Texas

• Performed daily unit monitoring and troubleshooting on caustic treating unit and amine contactor unit.
• Optimized light sulfur gasoline unit flow rates to decrease product octane loss.
• Designed alkylation contactor monitoring tool to justify yearly cleanings.
• Created project to decrease caustic treating unit process fluctuations.

Provo, Utah Area

• Blood Filtration
• Authored research paper published in Journal of Microbiological Methods
• Standardized techniques to reduce experimental error by 50%
• Innovated procedure to make research clinically relevantMRI Bio-Orthogonal Metastasis Detection
• Performed an extensive literature review to identify and critique previous related attempts.
• Implemented various experiments to analyze optimum laboratory procedure.Drug Delivery