Michael Olson Email & Phone Number

Canada

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Fremont, California, United States

Fremont, California, United States

Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Conducted feasibility studies in order to identify opportunities for increased production, reduction or reuse of energy, and pinpointed ways of improving the overall efficiency and product quality of the mill’s.
• Facilitated and developed HAZOP/PHA/OSHA technical reports for clients.
• Developed complex simulations capable of producing heat and material balances.
• Detailed simulation/model results in the form of Process Design Reports.
• Prepared and modified P&IDs, P&Cs, and PFDs based on the results from heat and material balances.
• Performed quality checks on peers' work to assure overall quality before work was sent out to clients.

• Created FluidFLow3 simulations which could measure the required pump sizes based on pressure loss of upstream equipment, and measured pressure losses within sulphuric acid pipe lines
• Created Mass and Energy balances (PFD's) for sulphuric acid plants
• Designed a program in order to calculate the amount of condensate which will form within a Heat Exchanger during the initial startup of a sulphuric acid plant
• Developed MathCad simulations in order to calculate temperature and mass profiles within an absorption tower and presented the results to a group of senior process engineers
• Communicated directly with manufactures to estimate equipment and material costs for company projects

Stockholm, Sweden

• Experimentally measured the flow resistance of water through pulp fibers
• Used data recording system to measure dewatering speeds with an ultrasonic sensors
• Measured pulp quality including tensile, stiffness and stretch
• Produced hand sheets(Laboratory paper samples) with functional fibers and recycled fibers
• Investigated the effect of mechanical treatment on paper performance
• Results are reported in a scientific paper to be submitted to the scientific journal-cellulose

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Learned VBA independently and was able to pull text files off of a fiber property analyzer and search for specific information to be removed and placed into to excel.
• Measured pulps quality including: conductivity, pH, tensile, tear, freeness, brightness and burst.
• Helped run a pilot plant sized refinery to conduct energy specific pulp tests.
• Performed chemical analysis using an ICP.
• Performed routine strength audits at the Prince George pulp mills.
• Helped perform trials and audits at Prince George mills to develop a new grade of pulp.

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Designed mechanical components for a novel Micro-Fibrillated Cellulose(MFC) production system including the rotor, shaft, fluidizer using SolidWorks 2011 and worked with the machine shop to build the system- Learned Labview independently and used it to integrate a computer, National Instruments DAQ with the MFC system sensors (pressure, temperature.