Ceramic and Refractories Petroleum Engineer: Regulatory, Turnaround, and Training

Expertise

• Ceramics technical support: Training manuals, utilization of refractories in the petroleum industry including the development of numerous patents.
• Refractories engineering, overseeing more than 100 major turnarounds, providing ceramics and refractories support for over 35 years in the petroleum industry.
• Refractory lining materials for refinery and petrochemical applications including selection, design, installation, inspection, quality control, and dryout.
• Led refractory oversight for numerous projects including FCC, sulfur recovery. powerforming, reforming, fluid coking, flexicoking unit new constructions and or major revamps.

On Site Services

• Fireproofing.
• Chemical resistant lining materials.
• Hydrodemolition of Fluid/FLEXI- Coker reactor wall coke.
• Turnaround execution for fluid solids units.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Senior Refractory Engineer, Present

• Providing regulatory support for petroleum clients: Refractory Installation quality control, inspection and testing monolithic refractory linings and materials.
• Service clients through equipment optimization, technical inspections through laser mapping, and turnaround execution for fluid solids units.

ExxonMobil

Commercial Technology Leader

• Lead technical expert in ceramics and refractories.
• Authored/Coauthored 24 patents, numerous company standards and training manuals.
• Taught training seminars.

Technology Development and Failure Analyses

• Erosion resistant refractories.
• Advanced anchoring systems.
• Optimization of gunning equipment and techniques.
• Quick forming casting techniques.
• Pump casting and self flowing castables.
• Advanced Inspection techniques including laser mapping.
• Repair/replacement criteria and remaining life.
• Improved techniques for thermal conductivity measurement and erosion resistance testing.
• Hot spot treatment and remediation.
• Hydrodemolition of refractory linings.
• Catalyst agglomeration.
• Mechanical behavior of refractory lined piping.
• Dryout and prevention of explosive spalling.