Simon Chambers Email & Phone Number

Spring, Texas, United States

Part Time Mass Transfer Equipment Consulting. Open for work

Spring, Texas, United States

Part Time Mass Transfer Equipment Consulting. Open for work

United States

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Knox County, Tennessee, United States

Seoul, South Korea

Duties: Detailed engineering support / mentoring younger engineers on projects involving trays and packings for distillation and absorption columns in the chemical/ petrochemical industries.• Sales calls/technical presentations for existing and new customers both in Korean market and regional Asia (Taiwan, Thailand).• Technical support to process engineers handling inquiries both in Korean domestic market and international markets Examples include Hanwha Chemical, Lotte Engineering, Lotte Chemical.• Training process and design engineers through a series of presentations on numerous mass transfer topics. Several presentation include the use of FRI video and films

Houston, Texas, United States

Duties: Senior process engineer in the field of mass transfer equipment (trays, random packings and structured packings) for distillation and absorption columns in the chemical/ petrochemical industries. • Process Engineering/design of mass transfer tower internals for project execution team serving US gas processes market; specifically, Amine units, TEG Units, C1 to C4 light ends distillation.• Launched project execution through technical reviews of tray/packing hydraulics, release-to-draw after receipt of Order from client, drawing reviews and liaison with Project Manager for release-to-manufacture the required tower internals.• Field trips, to clients in West Texas to witness column internals installation for Amine and TEG units.• Used own initiative to conduct lunch and learn tray and packings fundamentals presentations using FRI videos. Targeted audience was less experienced engineers.• Associate FRI Technical Representative with responsibility for technical activities pertaining to FRI

Houston, Texas, United States

Duties: Fractionation Leveraged R&D analyses and reports on recent FRI tested devices. Devices incorporated Fractionation Leveraged R&D analyses and reports on recent FRI tested devices. Devices added in to EMRE design practices and EMoTIP design/rating program. • Caretaker responsibility for ExxoMobil internal design/rating program EMoTIP.• Authored five technical reports based on ExxonMobil internal analysis of FRI tested trays, random and structured packings from the tower internals suppliers Sulzer, Raschig, RVT.• Initiated presentations (with FRI videos) on trays and packings to several parties within EMRE and the GSO Malaysia office.• Witnessed liquid distributor tests at equipment vendor workshop for two Vacuum Distillation Columns as part of the Beaumont Crude Unit A Turnaround.• Inspections of trays and structured packing in the Atmospheric Crude Column and Depentanizer as part of the Beaumont Crude Unit A Turnaround.• EMRE license technical support for the proprietary valve tray installations at Rosneft Angarsk Refinery, Russia. Engineering lead for Team 2 of 2.• Technical Support (TAC) work for ExxonMobil sites, e.g. Amine Units in Baytown.• Scoping Beaumont Crude Column revamp (2020) and Baton Rouge Vacuum Column upgrade (2019)

Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Duties: Actively involved with operational planning on experimental projects, data collections /analysis to determine the performance of packings/trays in the FRI experimental unit. Authored Progress and Topical Reports, documenting experimental results for trays and packings for the FRI membership • Produced FRI videos of experimental test programs: installation and operations, e.g. ‘Structured Packing Fundamentals’ training film. Well received by leading fractionation experts globally.• Delivered presentations at TC/TAC and special overseas meetings, e.g. Winterthur (2010), Madrid (2012), Mumbai and Bangalore (2012), Tokyo (2013), Maastricht (2014).• FRI representative to Arbeitskreis (FRI German members) meetings, presentations to leading experts.• Training new FRI members such as Conoco Phillips, Tonen, Thyssen Krupp, Linde and Sabic regarding FRI experimental projects, modelling, handbooks, design practices, database, rating program.• Pro-active with members queries on Device Rating Program (DRP). Championed Help Guide manual for rating/designing bubble cap trays in the DRP.• Championed detailed 508-page Topical Report describing processing of raw experimental data into published results based on physical properties for common FRI test systems (TR124)