Petrochemical Separation Process Engineer Consultant

Technical Consultant #2219

Thirty years of experience in fractionation, distillation, and other separation processes for the petroleum and chemical industries.
Areas of expertise include separation sequence development, FCC flue gas scrubbing, modeling and simulation using commercial (PRO/II) and other proprietary simulators, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, operations support, and waste water stream treatment.

Undisclosed Company, Senior Engineer Advisor, Present

Treatment of waste water for Syncrude expansion project.
Provided consultation on separations calculations for crude distillation, light ends, catalytic cracker and coker fractionators, chemicals systems, and sour water systems.
Performed technical edits of crude distillation unit manuals.
Identified deficiencies in crude distillation towers such as vacuum system inadequacies, internals damage or salt blockage, operating parameter deficiencies and developed corrective actions to restore operations.
Performed troubleshooting of light ends towers.
Conducted expansion and debottlenecking studies for crude distillation and light ends units, evaluating the impact of new crude slates.
Conducted energy audit of crude tower operations, providing one site with $750 thousand per year in potential savings.
Served as primary consultant for ionic systems including sour water strippers and NESHAP (National Environmental Standards Hazardous Air Pollutant) strippers.
Conducted fractionation training programs.
Developed computer models for simulating separation process including membrane permeation and moving bed adsorption.

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