Chemical Process Engineer Consultant: Polymers, Refinery Operations, Chemical and Biochemical Products

Technical Consultant #1493

Chemical engineering consulting for 38 years with extensive global experience in the process industries, primarily related to polymers, refinery operations, chemical and biochemical products.
Supervising start up and commissioning of new chemical plants.
Lead chemical engineer of many projects, with responsibility for all aspects of planning, process design and supervision of other engineers.
Process engineer on a nuclear waste disposal project in the United Kingdom.
Experienced in fast track front-end process engineering.
Pharmaceutical plant process design.
Experienced with biofuels industry projects and the chemical engineering of green chemistry, including corn processing.
Safety audits of batch chemical processes.

Recent Consulting Projects

Nuclear projects for Costain Engineering in the United Kingdom.
Process study on corn processing facilities around the world.
Lead process/mechanical engineer for a new process to produce biodiesel from waste grease.
Lead process/mechanical engineer for a new diagnostic product; production process replicated a similar plant in Scotland, United Kingdom.
Lead process Engineer for a flare gas recovery project at the Eagle Point, N.J., Sunoco Refinery.
Project lead for a air emissions study and oxidizer evaluation on a batch specialty chemicals plant at a pharmaceutical company in Grand Bahama.
Process/mechanical lead for project to relocate and upgrade two cosmetic production plants.

BI Chemicals, Petersburg, VA

Supervising commissioning engineer for a specialty chemicals plant.
Worked with a variety of process equipment including reactors, heat exchangers, dryers, centrifuges, scrubbers, fans and pumps.

Rohm & Haas, Bristol, PA

Chemical engineering projects included printer ink manufacture, polymers, dyes and general chemicals.
Lead engineer for the upgrade and retrofit of a plant manufacturing magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide.

Roche Pharmaceuticals, Boulder, CO

Lead engineer for a project requiring the retrofitting of a new bulk drug process into an existing operating plant.
Project was a site-based assignment involving the re-use of certain existing vessels, and columns, the installation of new equipment and routing of new pipework within a constrained space.

Texasgulf, Aurora, NC

Conducted an internal audit for OSHA 1910 compliance at a large fertilizer manufacturing facility.

PFC Bahamas, Freeport, Grand Bahama

Responsible for air emissions assessment and control, together with off-sites and utilities for bulk pharmaceutical facility in Bahamas.
Plant-wide upgrade to change product that involved redesign of existing reactors and other equipment, and the addition of new filter/dryers in a new building.
Analysis of the new batch sheets with new raw materials, that included studies of tank farm operations and of batch and continuous solvent recovery operations.

Syntex, Mexico and Ireland

Process design of a pharmaceutical plant in Mexico involving upgrades to several operating areas of the plant, including chilled water, brine, and waste management.
Lead process/mechanical engineer for a site-based team at a large bulk chemical manufacturing facility in Ireland. Established a multi discipline team; completed and commissioned a number of upgrade and expansion projects; responsible for air emissions modeling, and evaluation of control options; and, lead process/mechanical engineer for a project to upgrade the wastewater plant.

Shell Oil Company, Lakeland, FL

Responsible for system by system safety study at a batch organic chemicals plant.
Recommended several plant modifications to bring the plant in line with OSHA regulations and good safety practice.

British Nuclear Fuels, Sellafield, United Kingdom

Supervising process engineer on a major multi-million nuclear waste disposal project.
Designer of active ventilation systems; author of commissioning procedures for the project.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Fellow, Institution of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom
Senior Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Chartered Engineer, United Kingdom; Chartered Scientist; Chartered Environmentalist
Member of the American Chemical Society
Process Intensification Network in the U.K.