Civil Engineer with Corporate Leadership Experience and Expert Technical Knowledge in Planning and Managing Petroleum Refinery Turnarounds.Over thirty years of experience in refinery construction, maintenance, and turnaround.Project management, plant engineering, businessTurnaround planning, management, and field execution.Served on Refinery Leadership Teams at three different refineries over fifteen years.Undisclosed Company, Senior Project Manager, PresentProviding Project Management Services to clien...

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer with Expertise in Noise Control, Engineering Acoustics, and FlaresThirty years ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company technical specialist, with experience resolving numerous plant noise and flare problems for worldwide refining, chemical, and production facilities.Mechanical engineering specific to; noise control, engineering acoustics, and flares.Undisclosed Company, Senior Technical Advisor, PresentProviding worldwide consulting for the refinery, chemical, and production facilities industries.ExxonMobile Research an...

Chemical Engineer Specializing in Fractionation and Distillation Processes, Debottlenecking Projects, and Waste Management ConsultationThirty 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.

Energy Design Engineering Consultant with Expertise in Clean Technology, Renewable Diesel, Ethanol, Hydrotreating, Coking, Crude, and RefiningSummaryProcess engineering, design engineering, research, intellectual property development and business strategy.Conceptual and detailed design engineering, commercial scale coal upgrading in reducing mercury and increasing the BTU value of coal.Provide analysis and proposal writing residual hydrotreating catalyst systems for companies worldwide.Renewable diesel, bio-diesel, and ethanol plants.National and International Trainer: Remote and onsite.Industries and AreasRenewable DieselEthanolHydrotreat...

Rotating Equipment and Mechanical Failure Specialist in Petroleum, Synthetic Rubber, Sulfur Units, Pumps, Steam Boilers, and Olefins Cracking UnitsOver 30 years of experience in the machinery engineering, specializing in rotating equipment for the oil production, refining, and petrochemical industries.Pumps specialist; small metering pumps to ANSI, UMD, API pumps.Vessel mixers and CT fans, reciprocating compressors, integral gas engines.Pump reliability improvements beyond 100 months and compressor care programs.500-20,000 HP range Centrifugal Compressor and Gas Turbines in both mechanical drive and Cogen applications.Waste heat boilers an...

Petrochemical Commercialization Processes, Heavy End Upgrading and Clean Fuels Manufacturing, GTL Alternative Energy ProcessesSpecialization in syngas processes, Gas to Liquid (GTL), novel clean fuels technologies, and alternative energy processes as well as refining, gas processing, and petrochemicals industries.Development and commercialization of a variety of process technologies related to light gas processing, heavy end upgrading, and clean fuels manufacture.Identifying, assessing, and championing novel technology opportunities and solutions for integration into the company's assets.Consultant to major US. and international firms such...

Control Systems in the Petroleum Refining, Petrochemical, Chemical, and Power IndustriesDomestic and international control systems for the petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical, and power industries.Process analyzers, GCs, UV/IR, water quality, and gas analyzers.Engineering supervision, engineering, procurement, construction.Commissioning of large scale, multimillion and billion dollar projects.Independent Consultant, PresentDetermine the chemical composition and physical properties of a hydrocarbon stream.Large scale commissioning of petroleum pl...

Electrical Power Plant Expert: Functional Performance, Upgrading Existing Facilities, Crafting Equipment and EPC ContractsPower plant boiler applications, fuels, applications, emissions compliance, and reciprocating engine applications.Technical and business development for international power generation entities in Europe and the Middle East.Focused Power Generation ActivitiesLarge reciprocating engine peaking power plantsFlexible generation's effect on power gridsBase loaded reciprocating engine power plantEmulsified heavy tars as fuel for SAGD processFirming wind power with natural gasBitumen use in fuel oil production from oil sandsPea...

Petroleum Industry Combustion Operational Consultant Specializing in Fired Heaters, Steam Boilers,Burner Performance and Reliability and Educator in Combustion ScienceRefinery fired heaters performance and reliability improvements.Industrial water tube boilers performance and reliability improvements.Fired heaters and boilers performance evaluations and troubleshooting.Assessment of firing equipment capacity limitations.Development of performance follow-up programs and procedures for firing equipment.Burner test witness and burner retrofitting and selection.Management of downstream combustion and energy efficiency projects.Assistance to co...

Electrical Engineer: Operations, Maintenance, Technical Support, Design, Construction, Commissioning; (Petrochem, Oil & Gas Facilities Elect. Utilities, Pipelines) Instrumentation, Automation & SafetySummary  Seasoned Electrical Engineer with over 20 years of extensive in operations, maintenance, technical support, design, construction, and commissioning activities for petrochemical facilities, oil and gas facilities, electrical utilities and pipelines in the electrical, instrumentation, automation and functional safety disciplines as an owner’s engineer.   Leadership: Build and sustain an effective team of electrical/in...