Mason Sarafraz Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Led the Streamlining Processes for Direct Reduction of Iron, Direct Air Capture, Calcination of Lime and Cement Materials, and CO2 capture trials at Bacchus Marsh Facility, Victoria. - Managed R&D projects including Tech. Dev. projects for the Flash Calcination Technology.- Generated NCRs, and technical reports and presented high-level results to the clients, committees and boards and published research outcomes.- Engaged with internal and external stakeholders including third- and governmental bodies to- Supported managing in-house characterisation labs including required pieces of training, safety regulations, standards, SOPs, non-conformance reports and facility upgrades.- Oversaw project controls including budget, time and quality of the products. - Spearheaded continuous improvement projects as part of the quality control and assurance measures at the CTC.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Technical Project Manager: Vast Solar Methanol (SM1), Port Augusta, South Australia (CAPEX: $30M). - Project Manager: Project Proton, Gasification of Biomass and RDF, Bulwer Island, QLD (CAPEX: $16.5M)- HILT CRC: Biogas, Syngas and Hydrogen production from biomass, UoC, UoA, Mitsomuto, 2022-2024.- Streamlining Gasification Technologies Benchmarking and Performance Indicator Development, Calix, 2022.- Leilac 2 CO2 off-gas treatment - HLL, New Zealand (CAPEX: $1M)- HILT CRC: Renewable Energy-based Gasification Technology Development, Project Manager - Calix CTC

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Project Manager: 10MWth Moving Injection Horizontal Gasification (MIHG) Program, QLD, Australia.*Managed Scoping Study, and pre-FEED phases of the project and successfully delivered the outcomes within time and budget. **Coordinated steering committee meetings, and prepared board of directors' packs, and stakeholder's info packs. - Project Lead: HILT CRC: Turbulator, Center for Energy Technology, UoA, South Australia. *Managed +5 teams at UoA to deliver a unique configuration of CFC to improve calcination. ** Reviewed technical reports, computational fluid dynamic models, and results of the scoping study.- Project Manager: Hot Lime Labs (HLL): 1MWth Synthetic gas cleaning, Wellington, New Zealand.* Generated business case and research proposal including cost of the trial, for the client.** High-level Stakeholder engagement (CEO level) and established rapport with the team overseas as part of a one-project one-team approach. *** Applied agile project management methodology to develop a novel technology for syngas treatment.

West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

DAC Program - Heirloom, USA- Managed Procurement process for DAC lab equipment for direct air capture trials in Bacchus Marsh.- Reconfiguration of the BATMn reactor following Direct Air Capture requirements. - Development of a real-life Carbonation unit to adsorb CO2 from air (Cost savings measure up to $450k)- Managed a series of trials for QC/QA and Technology Demonstration at Calix Bacchus Marsh Pilot Plant, Maddingley, VIC 3340.- Stakeholder management including internal and external (overseas) clients, governmental bodies, and third-party engineering companies as part of the project. - Prepared Steering Committee presentation packs, budget and time-tracking tools for monitoring the project's triple constraints. - Generated a technical report for the client in the US.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Continuous improvement and optimisation lead (manufacturing, energy, food and beverage). - Project management, research and development (renewable energy, gasification, water projects, CO2 abatement).- Energy storage solution (solar, wind, battery, energy flow assessment).- CO2 mitigation and clean fuel production (hydrogen, syngas, ammonia, liquid fuels).- Techno-economic analysis (CAPEX/OPEX/LCOE/LCOF).

Coventry, United Kingdom

ERC Renewable Energy and Plasma Technology Development.Fertiliser production (process design and operation).Continuous process improvement (manufacturing, OEE, optimisation lead).Energy storage solution (liquid metal batteries, optimisation lead).

Adelaide, Australia

Designed and simulated a novel industrial-scale thermal storage unit using liquid metals,Improved performance and process of energy storage using Lean Six Sigma. Conducted design of Experiment (DOE) and six sigma (DMADV) to optimize the geometrical specification and operating conditions of the system.

Adelaide, Australia

- Utilisation of Lean Six Sigma for optimising the process energy consumption.- Integration of renewable energy (CSP, PV, gasification) to promote the levelised cost of the process, and to improve the OEE%.

Greater Adelaide Area

Below are IP sensitive and details cannot be provided. - Paid Scoping Study: Hybridisation of the Tarac Technologies process with solar thermal energy for co-production of heat and power. - Paid Scoping Study: Development of the bio- methane and -syngas production facility for converting spent grape marc into hydrogen.- Paid Scoping Study: Development of next-generation thermal energy storage unit (molten silicon) using renewable energy.- Research Project: Integration of renewable energy (solar photovoltaic, gasification and wind coupled with solar thermal) with a wine production plant.- Techno-economic analysis of the biogas production facility hybridized with renewable energy.

Tehran

Project Engineer-Process Simulation and Process ImprovementReverse-engineered a chemical plant for generating silicon wafers (electrical grade) for solar panels

Phd In Engineering, Hydrogen Production | Carbon Capture And Storage | Renewable Energy | Process Design|, Ph. D. With Dean'S Commendation For Excellence In Research

Activities and Societies:Thesis: Hydrogen Production via Liquid Chemical Looping Gasification Projects accomplished: 1- Pre-FEED.

Project Management, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Project Management

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nanotechnology | Thermofluids | Advanced Nanomaterials | Coating

Emerging Nanomaterials in Thermal and Energy Applications

Master'S Degree, Chemical Engineering | Material Characterization, 4.8 (Out Of 5)- Distinction

Design and Prototype of Next Generation of High-Performance Sub-cooled Boiler for Pharmaceutical Applications (Tested on Aqueous Glycerol.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Chemical Engineering, 4.01 (Out Of 5) - High Achiever

Numerical Investigation for Energy Performance of a Gas Duct Heating System