Expertise

• Power generation technologies and design.
• Oil refinery technology and design: Hydrotreators, hydrocracker and crude distillation.
• Waste to energy processes: Incineration, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion.
• Process overdeveloped and P&ID review of bio diesel plant.
• Combustion technology and furnace and burner system design and appraisal.
• Conversion of coal to gas and liquids and biomass to power technologies.
• Coal gasification, waste heat boilers, steam and gas turbine analysis.
• Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, gasification, pyrolysis.
• Waste water treatment including filtration, sedimentation, sludge systems.

Experience

Independent Consultant, 2008 - Present

• Review and validation analysis of design calculations of a crude distillation unit-revamp of an oil refinery based in Greece.
• Co-ordination of project activities for crude distillation unit.
• Hydrotreator unit operation analysis and review.
• Reviewing and checking of pressure relief systems calculations, pressure safety valves calculations within the refinery network.
• Energy from waste plant studies, design and review.
• Waste water treatment plant design, studies and analysis.
• Review of feedstocks (coal, waste, natural gas) to evaluate optimum power generation arrangement that would increase power output and CAPEX.
• Power generation design and optimization.

Bechtel Ltd, Hammersmith, London, UK, Consultant Contractor, 2007

• Project management activities of oil refinery and petrochemical complex.
• Process design and review of oil refinery units.
• Design review of power generation plant for a Russian oil refinery.
• Preparation of design basis documentations for a power plant.
• Reviewing of optimum arrangements of heat recovery steam generators for refinery power plant.

Jacobs Consultancy UK Limited, London, UK, 2006 - 2007

Project management activities for Biodiesel Plant.

• Review of material and heat balances, flow sheeting review.
• P&ID review.
• Pump calculations, vent calculations, review of Hazops and SIL reviews.

Project management activities on new distillate hydrotreator plant.

• Review of heat and material balances and process flow sheeting.
• Pump calculations, vent calculations, line sizing calculations, pressure relief systems review and analysis.
• P&ID Review.

Coal and bio mass gasification to power generation study work.

• Developed design basis documentation for gasification facility.
• Review of biomass / waste feedstock for power generation.
• Review and preparation of costs estimates for gas turbine, steam turbine and heat recovery steam generation units.
• Design and analysis to determine optimum power generation configuration for various coal and biomass feed stocks.
• Usage of steam and gas turbine software (GTPRO / GT Master) to model and analyze coal to power plants arrangements.

Providence Energy Consultancy Ltd, London, Technical Director and Consultant, UK, 2004 - 2006

• Crude distillation unit modeling, review and appraisal.
• Power generation review and design studies.
• Modeling and simulation of power generation units (boilers, steam turbines, condensers and feed water heaters, heat recovery steam generators).
• Capital and operating costs estimates of steam and gas turbines plants.
• Negotiations, reviewing vendors and appraisal of vendors.
• Selection and optimization of steam, gas turbine, heat recovery boiler to match appropriate feedstock.
• Feasibility studies of waste water treatment plants.
• Economic evaluation of waste water treatment plant.
• Power generation unit process modeling.
• Modeling of steam turbine unit for optimum extraction of steam for feed water heaters.
• Crude distillation unit analysis and appraisal.
• Power generation technologies and design.
• Oil refinery technology and design: Hydrotreators, hydrocracker and crude distillation.
• Waste to energy processes: Incineration, pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion.
• Process overdeveloped and P&ID review of bio diesel plant.
• Combustion technology and furnace and burner system design and appraisal.
• Conversion of coal to gas and liquids and biomass to power technologies.
• Coal gasification, waste heat boilers, steam and gas turbine analysis.
• Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, gasification, pyrolysis.
• Waste water treatment including filtration, sedimentation and sludge systems.
• Waste water plant modeling and analysis.
• Steam path analysis for steam turbines and feed water heaters.
• Energy consumption reduction studies on CHP plants.
• Conceptual design and simulation of crude distillation units to optimize separation trays efficiency and increase yield of outputs.
• Reactor-Separator system simulation to optimize operating parameters such as temperature, concentration, reflux ratios.

Fluid Technologies Environmental Ltd, London, UK Process Engineer, 2001 - 2003

• Modeling and simulation of gas absorption systems using finite element approach.
• Developed a computational model to increase pollutant removal efficiency on a simultaneous heat and mass transfer gas scrubbing system.
• Heat recovery analysis on scrubbers and gas absorption systems.
• Humidification and cooling tower systems analysis.

Imperial College, London, UK, Research in Energy Integration, 2000 - 2001

Monckton Coke & Chemicals Ltd , Yorkshire, UK, Chemical Engineer, 1999 - 2000

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• ProII Simulation, GT PRO (Gas and steam turbine analysis).
• Turbo Scrubber ( for gas cleaning).

Education

• B.Eng. With Honors - Chemical Engineering, Industrial Studies, Bradford University, United Kingdom