Expertise

• 40 years experience in the design and operation of petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants.
• Design, construction and operation of petroleum refining, petrochemical and fine chemicals manufacturing plants and processes.
• Expert witness related to chemical and petrolatum plant design, contract negotiation, support related to vendor charges, second opinions, fault analysis and good applying engineering practices related to process designs.
• Past worldwide engineering services to major petroleum firms.
• Provide front-end engineering and design including developing process flow diagrams, P&IDs, heat and material balances and to analyze difficult chemical processing issues.
• Assist in purchasing major equipment and services.
• Process simulation experience using Design II Winsim (Chemshare), Simsci's Process, Aspen, HYSYS and HYSIM.
• Process simulations experience: Petroleum refining - crude distillation, vacuum distillation, reforming, hydrotreating, lube oil fractionation; Ethylene; feed preparation, quench, recovery and concentration; Fine chemicals - mercaptan, formaldehyde, dimethyl ether, chlorinated solvents, ethers, esters; Reforming processes - hydrogen, ammonia; Ethanol dehydration using azeotropic distillation; evaporation, molecular sieve; Gas processing - turbo-expander, JT, dehydration, compression, distillation.
• Prepared and certified air emissions inventory, wastewater permit applications and represented clients with EPA and state regulatory agencies.
• Familiar with regulations pertaining to processing, storage and transportation of toxic chemicals.
• Provided expert testimony and litigation support in cases involving petrochemical processing.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Consultant/Engineering Manager/Owner, 1980 - Present

• Chemical engineering service to 70 large U.S. and foreign chemical plants and oil refiners.
• Awarded a U.S. patent for the process to refine LPG for use as an aerosol propellant.
• Engineered a complete plant to produce aerosol propellant in Shanghai, China.

Projects Completed

• Expert Witness: Ethanol plants arbitration; glycol evaporation system technology.
• Process development and design to manufacture tertiary methyl ammonium chloride.
• Process design, process simulation and detailed design for small fuel ethanol plant.
• Gas flow assurance study for a major oil company's 34 natural gas producing wells including hydraulic study with Schlumberger's PIPESIM software.
• Process simulation of a turbo-expander system to recover liquids from natural gas.
• Process simulation of liquid feed to ethylene furnaces.
• Process study and process simulation to remove BTX from refinery stream.
• Process design of gas plant.
• Mechanical design of sulfuric acid system.
• Using PIPEPHASE developed a hydraulic analysis of 24 wells in equatorial Guinea.
• Detailed design of a de-propanizer system to recover propane from LPG in Ivory Coast.
• Process simulation of amine plant for a gas plant.
• Formaldehyde plant modifications.
• Hydrogen plant simulation.
• Process simulation and vent header study with v-l-e data regression.
• Process study of a methyl mercaptan plant.
• Complete aerosol propellant plant design: Process design, mechanical design, equipment selection, purchasing and preparation for export of equipment.
• Process study of a lube oil fractionating system.
• Process design of a dimethyl ether plant.
• Process design and engineering at a mercaptan plant.
• Heat exchanger trouble shooting for a cryogenic plant.

Mt. Airy Refining Co., Mt. Airy, LA, Plant Engineering Manager, 1977 - 1979

• Manage small refinery's engineering needs: retain consultants, perform engineering on small modifications, environmental compliance - air water with State and Federal Regulatory agencies.
• Expansion studies, installation of new equipment.

Sid Richardson Carbon Company, Addis, LA, Process Development Engineer, 1975 - 1977

• Improve product quality and reduce manufacturing costs.
• Research on adiabatic flame temperatures.

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., Gramercy, LA, Process Engineer, 1974 - 1975

Guyana Bauxite Co., Linden, Guyana, South America, Process Engineer, 1973 - 1974

Suralco (ALCOA), Paranam, Surinam, South America, Process engineer, 1971 - 1973

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Credentials

• Professional Engineer Texas
• Chartered Engineer U. K.
• Languages: Spanish and Dutch

Publications and Patents

• One U.S. Patent.

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
• Ch. E. Chemical Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad