Chemical Process Engineer (16196) Refinery, Chemicals, Phosporic Acid, Wastewater, Consumer Chemicals / Project Management / Single, Renting, Will Relo
Chemical Engineer with 20 years of experience in process engineering in chemical and refinery operations. He is skilled in the areas of process and project engineering for oil refining, feedstocks, phosphoric acid, water & wastewater treatment as well as other organic and inorganic processes. he has worked with a wide variety of chemical processing equipment and is even experienced with DCS Automation. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida and an AS in Chemical Engineering Technology. He is single and willing to relocate
• Lead, supervised, and facilitated process project groups.
• Sized and cost process equipment, raw materials & electrical equipment including tanks, filters, distillation columns, valves, electronic controllers, heat exchangers, boilers, pumps, compressors & hydrotreaters.
• Performed consulting duties in solving chemical plant-related processes and process controls engineering challenges.
• Lead & designed projects from a FCI range of thirty thousand to ten million dollars.
• Familiar with PI management database system for extracting data for analysis on DCS system
• Strong competence with PSM operations, environmental compliance opacity stack testing and man-lift equipment operations.
• Performed P&IDs markups for projects & solved technical issues relating to plant operations.
• Attained success in completing a technical writing manual for the chlorination department.
• Worked on shifts with process operators and maintenance technicians in production operations & DCS process controls when maintaining process equipment and doing plant turnaround.
• Performed relief valve engineering designs as it pertains to refinery processes
• Performed P&IDs markups and process line lists operations
• Performed process simulations using ASPEN HYSYS, FATHOM, and KORF
• Completed project duties involving sizing process pipelines, pressure drop calculations, and other process operations as directed by lead engineers
• Hydraulic modeling using Fathom piping software to size pumps, heat exchangers, and process pipelines for shampoo and conditioning processes at the P&G manufacturing plant.
• Performed process operations for reading and interpreting PFDs and P&IDs
• Solved important chemical processes related to silicone-based chemical products from a process control perspective.
• Performed process control duties with instrumentation technician pertaining to TT, VFDs, actuators, and Delta V – DCS system.
• Performed project engineering applications on cooling tower equipment pertaining to engineering designs, costing applications, sizing, and water & wastewater treatment.
• Performed mass & energy balances on heat exchangers to determine output production rate streams and heat duties
• Performed chemical engineering calculations based on chemical process equipment and output for efficient optimization and cost control using LP (linear programming) simulators such as HAVERLY and ASPEN
• Analyzed and designed refining unit processes using costing charts and design equations for sizing and costing.
• Provided material balance forecasting and assistance with cost forecasting
• Performed process engineering duties and submitted reports on the following to ensure the continuous process for the phosphoric acid plant was economically feasible for production
• Mass Integration *Equipment selection *Pumps and compressors selection
• Performed mass and energy balances calculations and data collection analyses pertaining to phosphoric acid processes, solvent extraction techniques, and heat exchangers and processing equipment
• Performed commissioning process engineering techniques on chemical processing equipment including evaporators, and distillation columns.
• Performed project engineering applications on cooling tower equipment pertaining to engineering designs, costing applications, sizing, and water & wastewater treatment.
• Performed chemical engineering calculations (mass & energy balances) from a process engineering-based operation.
• Performed chemical engineering calculations based on chemical process equipment and output for efficient optimization and cost control.
• Experienced in the documentation of safety operations when dealing with process units for MOC, PHA, PPM, and PSM.
• Hands-on experience in designing feedback control processes.
• Refinery Operations
• Petrochemical Feedstocks
• Oil / Gas
• LPG
• Jet Fuel
• Heat Balance Calculations
• Heat Transfer Coefficients
• Energy Balances
• LP Modeling
• Design Of Experiments DOE
• Equipment Design
• Equipment Process Calculations
• Material Balance Calculations
• Metal Balance Calculations
• Pumping Head Calculations
• Mass Transfer Calculations
• Pareto Analysis
• Pipeline Sizing
• Process Simulations
• Root Cause Analysis
• API Standards
• Detail Refinery Flows
• Determining Economic Feasibility
• Developing Design Drawings
• Documenting Chemical Processes
• Drying Processes
• Equipment Specification
• Filtration
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Hydraulic Design/Calculations
• Hydraulics / Pumping
• Increasing Production Capacity
• Inorganic Chemical Process
• Maintenance Operations
• Pilot Plant Operations
• Piping systems
• Plant Turnarounds
• Preventative Maintenance
• Process Modification / Optimization
• Process Troubleshooting
• Wastewater Processing
• PLCs
• DCS
• Pumps
EDUCATION:
*Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering – University of South Florida (‘02 – ‘04) GPA: 3.55
*AS Diploma in Chemical Engineering Technology – University of Technology, Jamaica (‘97 – ‘00)