Raj D. Kulkarni, P. E. Email and Phone Number

My career industry spans 50 years in design and construction of petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants. As a consulting engineer to industry I :- provide front-end engineering and design developing PFDs, P &IDs;- solve existing environmental permitting and product quality problems;- assist in purchasing major equipment and construction;- generate equipment data sheets and engineering drawings- assist in finding technical people Much of my work originates at executing process simulators: I have used Simsci's PROCESS 4.01, ASPENPLUS, and HYSYS. I have been using Winsim's DESIGNII (Chemshare) for the last 30+ years in:- petroleum refining - crude oil distillation, reforming, hydrotreating;- ethylene ; feed preparation, quench, recovery and concentration;- fine chemicals - mercaptan, formaldehyde, DME, chlorinated solvents;- reforming processes - hydrogen, ammonia;- fuel ethanol using azeotropic distillation; - gas processing – turbo-expander, JT, compression, distillation.I have represented clients with EPA and state regulatory agencies on "Compliance Order" and similar matters. I have prepared and certified Air Emissions Inventories and Wastewater Permit Applications. I am familiar with regulations pertaining to processing, storage and transportation of toxic chemicals in the U.S.A. I also provide expert testimony and litigation support in cases involving petrochemical processing and have worked for law firms. My job is to study technical documents and review failed processes. I will spot weak assumptions and inadequate work. I will point out favorable and unfavorable facts. I will develop scientific testing to shed more light on the issue at hand.

Temporarily, managed projects at Vulcan's solvent manufacturing plant in Geismar, Louisiana while a permanent employee was being hired..

Worked at the West Plant: 100 MBBL/D crude unit, 5 MBBL/D fixed bed reformer and a hydrotreater.

Manage all engineering and environmental activities of a small refinery. Involved in air and water permitting, process revamp to recover waste heat from process furnace and on going small revamps.

Process engineering work in the design of system to reduce caustic loss from evaporators to meet wastewater discharge guidelines; environmental permitting issues at state and federal agencies.

Process development on improved carbon black manufacturing system; measurement and calculation of adiabatic flame temperatures; hydraulics of two phase flow

Technical support at the alumina plant; work with operations on daily operating problems.

Technical support on daily operations of Bayer Process; involved in revamp to caustic evaporators; start-up of a lime kiln; study / research on causticization of aluminate-caustic liquors.