Petroleum Refinery Design and Operations Analysis Expert

Technical Consultant #2094

Undisclosed Company

Performed detailed stress analyses per ASME Code Section VIII division 2 of pressure vessel components, including nozzle to shell junctions, internal support attachments, skirt to shell junctions, and high temperature internals.
Recommended material, design, fabrication, and testing requirements for high pressure and temperature hydrocracking reactors and fluid solids equipment.
Provided engineering contractor review and follow-up on large projects including coal liquefaction plant, Rotterdam, Netherlands, flexicoking project, Baytown, Texas, lubes project, and Singapore lubes project.
Provided onsite engineering support for plant startups, turnarounds, emergency shutdowns, and troubleshooting.
Startup: Coal liquefaction plant.
Turnarounds and troubleshooting: Mumbai, Sakai, Sarnia, Fawley, Port Jerome, Trecate, Hamburg, Baton Rouge, Baytown, Beaumont, and Benicia Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units.
Equipment expertise: Pressure vessels, piping, fluid solids systems, advanced mathematical analysis of vessels and internals in FCC, fluid coking, Flexicoking, and hydroprocessing units.

Credentials

Academic and Professional Affiliations

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Chairperson of three committees and holding positions including:
Member ASME Board of Pressure Technologies Codes and Standards
Member of the Standards Committee/TOMC
Member of Subgroup Design of BPV VIII/Subcommittee VIII
Member Subgroup Toughness of BPV VIII/Subcommittee VIII
Member Subgroup General Requirements of BPVIII/Subcommittee VIII
Member U-2(g) Task Group