Chemical Process Engineer (111863) Masters / PE / Green Belt / Chemicals, Refinery
Chemical Process Engineer with 20+ years of progressive experience and applied expertise in the chemical process industries. He is a PE Professional Engineer, a Six Sigma Green Belt and has extensive PHA Training. He also has a Masters in Chemical Engineering.
His track record of solving plant operating problems to improve plant operations is impressive! He is skilled in a wide variety of chemical unit operations and processes. as well as DCS configuration, PLC configuration, and field instrumentation process simulation. He is proficient with Aspen simulation to generate Process Flow Diagrams, generation of P&IDs, and equipment specifications. He has been involved with the start-up and commissioning of numerous chemical processes. He has several letters of recommendation from former employers.
Specific Areas of Experience and Knowledge Include:
- Technical Team Leadership
- Engineering Project Management (Design and Construction)
- Pilot Plant Supervision (High Pressure Laboratory-organic peroxide development)
- International Experience (European and Asian)
- Process Engineering
- Automation and Process Control
- Instrumentation – Design Engineering
- In-Plant/Manufacturing Experience
- Process Modeling and Simulation (ASPEN, B-JAC, Exchanger design and rating)
- Generation of Process Flow Diagrams
- Generation of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
- Generation of Equipment Specifications
- Process control (DCS/PLC Configuration)
Unit Operations and Process Competencies:
- Start-up and Commissioning of Numerous Chemical Processes
- Tenter BOPP(Bi-axially oriented Poly-propylene) Film Plant
- C5 Hydrocarbon Resin Plant
- Delayed coking process
- Batch and Continuous Distillation Columns
- Batch Reactors
- Filtration Operations (Funda and Mott)
- Bulk Solids Handling
- Continuous Crystallization and Centrifuge Operation
- Rising and Falling Film Evaporators
- Coalescers
- Horizontal Wiped Film Evaporator
- Process Vacuum Pumps
- Vacuum Process Steam Jets
- Chemistry: air oxidation of cumene and other substrates to synthesize Organic Peroxides, Polymerization of hydrocarbon streams to synthesize hydrocarbon resins.
EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts (Thesis Topic: Distillation Control)
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
- In-Depth PHA Training for PHA Resources, DuPont