Expertise

• Chemical engineering, process design and troubleshooting.
• Consulting engineer petroleum, oil and gas production and refining.
• Pilot plant operations for first of a kind plant design.
• Chemical equipment costing and economic analysis.
• Unit operation expertise, particularly, distillation, heat exchange, fluid dynamics, reaction kinetics, mist elimination, liquid/liquid separation and gas/liquid separation.
• Pollution prevention and water and wastewater management expertise.
• Chemical process economic modeling, including capital, operating cost and operating efficiencies variables leading to NPV determination.

Experience

2001 - Present Consulting

• Focus on engineering cost estimates of chemical and petroleum process, debottlenecking, pollution prevention and energy conservation technology.
• Developing computer software programs to estimate equipment efficiencies, utility and other operating costs, equipment and plant capital costs, and internal rates of return.
• Consulting engineer on enhanced oil recovery process.

2001 - 2002 Foster Wheeler, Houston, Texas

• Contract engineering to analyzed under performing crude/vacuum column crude preheat train.
• Identified cause as off-spec operation due to OVHD corrosion problem and identified short-term improvements involving only minor re-piping for upcoming winter operation.
• Performed partial pinch analysis and identified longer term preheat train solutions, performed dual condenser simulations to identify potential column modifications to increase OVHD temperature to solve the corrosion problem.
• Modified naphtha splitter to meet specs, a crude/vacuum column/coker heavier feed revamp study, and a caustic carryover problem.

1997 - 2001 EPRI Chemicals, Petroleum & Natural Gas Center, The Woodlands, Texas, Manager

• Energy conservation, process efficiency improvement, water and wastewater management, technology development, training, technical marketing, developed and presented training courses ("Petroleum Refining Made Easy" and "Petrochemicals Production Made Easy").
• Researched and wrote EPRI reports on Advanced Distillation, and Water and Wastewater Management (includes expert process selection system and water use minimization).

1993 - 1997 ACS Industries' Separations Technology Division, Houston, Texas

1989 - 1993 The M. W. Kellogg Company, Houston, Texas

1987 - 1989 Kinetics Technology International (KTI), Monrovia, California

1985 - 1987 Santa Fe Braun, Alhambra, California 1982 - 1985 Research

1974 - 1982 Occidental Petroleum's Occidental Research Corporation, Irvine, California Petroleum

1957 - 1965 Atlantic Richfield, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Honors & Publications

• 5 Patents
• 20 technical papers and 15 management publications
• Served as the first chairman of the AIChE Center for Waste Reduction Technologies' Technology Transfer Committee
• Served as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Effluent Guidelines Task Force

Education

BS ChE CCNY

MS ChE Drexel Institute

Registered Professional Engineer (California)