Results
Achieved
Refinery
Process Design and Project Management
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Project FEED
saving 29 million dollars per year in refinery operating costs through recovery
of waste gas streams.
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Lead through FEED
the team of engineers who created an alternative design for a refinery
emergency blow down system with capital cost savings of ten million dollars.
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Managed the
year-long HAZOP project reviewing the safety critical status of approximately
6,500 instruments in the largest U.S. refinery utilizing engineering experts
and first line supervisors from the 17 refinery process units.
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Re-designed the
laboratory project plan and lead of the implementation in all refinery and
chemical plant control centers of a computerized process control sampling
system for the petrochemical-refinery complex.
Compounded
Polypropylene -- Process Technical and Quality Management
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Process technical
and quality management at 7 contract production facilities during start-up of a
joint venture between ExxonMobil Chemical and Mitsubishi to produce proprietary
polypropylene compounds for automotive applications.
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Utilized problem
solving methods and knowledge of analytical techniques (ICPES, FTIR, EDS) to
create and sustain a product quality system to gain status as a polymer
supplier to major automotive manufacturers (Honda, Nissan, Chrysler)
Polypropylene
Production -- Process Design and Technical
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Provided safety
review with approval authority for all process and procedure changes in a
world-scale polypropylene production plant encompassing pipe loop, stirred tank
and fluidized bed technologies.
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The Design Basis
Memorandum for the major de-bottleneck of the world scale polypropylene
production line.
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The Design Basis
Memorandum and/or Process Design Specification for multiple smaller projects
encompassing catalyst preparation facilities, polymer de-volatilization, and
additive transfer systems including chair of the design HAZOP.
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The quality
system design that included specifications for all raw materials as the point of
contact for 75 suppliers of over 100 different raw materials including
catalysts, monomers, co-monomers and additives for a world-scale polypropylene
production plant.
Polyethylene
Production -- Process Design and Technical Support
· Authored the study comparing the Net Present Value of
3 different technologies (pipe loop slurry, CSTR slurry and gas phase bed) for
production of polyethylene at 7 worldwide locations with adjustment for
location specific costs for capital and raw materials and the grade slate capability
of each technology versus a given market.
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Invented a novel
reactor technology to produce polyethylene with unique properties and structure
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Leadership of the
process technical group(s) that implemented higher alpha-olefin co-monomer
technology in both the U.S. and Canadian world-scale polyethylene gas phase
technology plants
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Technical group headship
for the 1st plant demonstration of condensed mode fluidized bed
reactor technology.
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Project
management for a pilot plant completed 8 weeks ahead of schedule at 70% of the
original project appropriation