John Yust, P.E. Email & Phone Number

United States

Mechanical Engineer at Gresham Smith.

Sevierville, Tennessee

Georgetown, KY

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Contract Position.Selected pumps and valves for tire factory mixing system.Used CEASAR II to verify changes to tire factory steam piping.

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Contract position.Designed the HVAC system and piping for a tire plant expansion and new tire plant construction.
• Created process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) for the tire plant utilities and ventilation.
• Sized and scheduled HVAC equipment for the Mixing area of both tire plants including the general plant area, offices, and electrical rooms.
• Sized heat exchangers and pumps for energy recovery system to recover heat from air compressors to pre-heat boiler feed water.
• Calculated stresses in steam piping using CAESAR II to confirm that piping met the requirements of ASME B31.1.
• Used CAESAR II to verify locations of supports, guides, and spring hangers for steam piping.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

• Direct employment on short-term government contract.Responsible for engineering deliverables including design analysis calculations (DACs) and data sheets for process equipment. All work done according to the.
• Created DAC to verify that all overflow lines were large enough to prevent backup of process fluid into off-gas system under worst-case scenario.
• Created DAC to calculate heat load of process condenser.
• Created DAC to calculate size of phase separator used to separate potential organic phases from process fluid.

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Managed a group of ten people including engineers and designers to produce drawings of skid mounted, packaged water distillation and pretreatment equipment for use by pharmaceutical and beverage companies.
• Checked drawings and bills of material (BOMs) for completeness and conformance to project specifications.
• Checked ASME vessel calculations.
• Coordinated with production and purchasing departments to provide information required to meet project schedules.
• Performed final mechanical inspection of equipment before shipment.

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Contract position.Worked in the production equipment group on a Greenfield, design/build project to construct a metal processing plant in Athens, Alabama.
• Wrote specifications and requests for quotes (RFQs) for process equipment for metal processing plant.
• Checked shop drawing submittals for process equipment to confirm compliance with RFQ.
• Managed equipment 3D modeling for metal processing plant.
• Managed production of equipment arrangement drawings for metal processing plant.

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Designed piping and HVAC for client processes and utilities. Wrote specifications and data sheets for process and utility equipment. All work done according to Mesa Quality Assurance plan which meets ASME NQA-1-2004.
• Performed and checked calculations to verify piping and equipment selections for U233 downblending and disposition project. All piping designed per ASME B31.3.
• Mesa document classifier for U233 downblending and disposition project.
• Calculated pump size required for demineralized water plant.
• Engineer responsible for mechanical aspects of demineralized water plant P&IDs.
• Wrote piping specs for demineralized water plant to meet ASME B31.3.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

• Contract position at Mesa Associates. Designed piping and wrote specifications for client processes and utilities. Piping designed per ASME B31.3. Specifications done according to Mesa Quality Assurance plan which.
• Calculated storage volume of liquid nitrogen required to meet gaseous nitrogen demand for a process that used nitrogen gas to operate air powered equipment and purge the atmosphere of a room in which the process.
• Calculated pipe size required to purge the room with nitrogen in a specified time.
• Designed motor mounts and routed tubing to control valves using AutoCAD 3D and Bentley AutoPLANT.

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Designed piping and HVAC for client processes and utilities.
• Calculated thermal loads for buildings and designed heating and ventilation system to maintain building internal temperatures though-out the year.
• Designed piping system for hydrogen compression plant. Managed Mechanical Department hours on this project. Project completed profitably. Piping designed per ASME B31.3.
• Designed office plumbing for hydrogen compression plant per the International Building Code (IBC).
• Designed process and utility piping for Bridgestone Tire plant expansion in Monterrey, Mexico. This expansion doubled the size of the existing plant and included the ability to add another building of the same size in.
• Assisted in the design of piping system and tanks required to allow Alcoa to install their proprietary coolant recycling system in their Samara, Russia plant.