Petroleum Industry Fired Heat Transfer Equipment Consultant

Expertise

• Refinery heat transfer equipment in fired equipment operations, plant expansions, and corporate training.
• Over thirty years of experience with Exxon Research and Engineering, involved primarily with fired heat transfer equipment.
• Plant start-up.
• Technical advisor on incinerator barge in Prince William Sound during Valdez oil spill clean-up.
• Fired equipment operations optimization and training of refinery employees.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Senior Mechanical Advisor, Present

• Development of technology, consulting, and troubleshooting on multi-million dollar refinery heat transfer equipment, including equipment evaluation, selection and design follow up for boilers, fired heaters, incinerators, flares, and cooling towers.
• Development of leading practices for boilers and fired heaters as part of corporate energy management system.
• Responsible for engineering and purchasing practices for boilers, flares and cooling towers, as company delegate to Council of Industrial Boiler Owners and Cooling Tower Institute.
• Originated and maintained engineering standard on flares.
• Performed consulting and troubleshooting on following types of boilers: Industrial, package, stokers, fluid bed, circulating fluid bed, HRSG, once through, steam generators and flue gas coolers, fuels cover conventional- oil, gas, coal, and unconventional-CO, tires, MSW, and wood.
• Performed general equipment assessment, capacity limitations, burner performance, burner test witness, root cause failure analysis, circulation assessment, NOx issues, and bid review assistance.
• Designed and started up systems on wide variety of company and third party boilers, incinerators, and fired heaters.
• Designed or revamp/re-rated many fired heaters in variety of services.
• Lead combustion advisor for technical readiness of in-bed combustion for coking satellite converter.
• Led survey of NOx and SOx emissions from all refinery equipment for an Argentina refinery.
• Research and development of special equipment (burners) and emerging technical processes (tar sands and shale oil).
• Technical and energy planning for U.S. and overseas mega-projects.

Honors & Publications

Awards

• Received Engineering Excellence Award for west coast refinery NOx project.

Education

• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton, PA