Jerry Cole Email & Phone Number

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

• Designed the overall control strategy for a hydrogen header operating at 4 different pressures from 90 to 6000 psig, fed by 3 hydrogen plants and utilizing 10 compressors. Developed material balance of the system and.
• Provided instrumentation and controls recommendations for a distillation column revamp project. Performed steady-state simulation of the column to determine the control strategy.
• Obtained considerable experience in design and operation of furnace combustion systems used to produce hydrogen, burn a tar stream and burn waste gas.

• Implemented model predictive controller for a diketene furnace, requiring model identification. Reduced natural gas usage and increased furnace life.
• Improved batch reactor temperature control using split range control of cooling medium and catalyst flow along with controller tuning modifications. Facilitated greater production flexibility.
• Led Basic Engineering Effort for CHDM Expansion project. Coordinated engineering efforts and interfaced with operating area and detailed engineering firm to produce heat and material balances, PFDs & P&IDs, equipment.
• Modified a chlorination feed system and associated PLC program to eliminate a product contaminant.
• Made modifications to a plasticizer batch program that yielded faster reactor heat-up and better control of process inventories resulting in shorter batch times and improved product quality. NPV $240K.
• Provided on-site startup support for a PETG facility in Kuantan, Malaysia. Tasks included controller configuration validation, controller tuning and trouble-shooting.

• Implemented pH and valve position controllers to neutralize a reactor product stream.
• Led control effort for acetate tow and color developer design packages. Assignments included control strategy, safety interlock and P&ID development.
• Spent 1994–1995 in a Process Improvement group within Acid Division with a focus on process control projects.
• Implemented improved catalyst feed system for a plasticizer unit that reduced annual catalyst costs by $300K.
• Implemented pressure compensated temperature control on a number of low boiler distillation columns; also implemented a pressure compensated flow measurement for steam flow to a column reboiler.

Ph.D, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta PiDissertation on multivariable control strategy design with dynamic simulation studies

M.S, Chemical Engineering

Thesis on dynamic simulation and operation of a lab scale distillation column.

B.S, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Marching Mizzou, Navigators