Chemical Engineer Consultant Specializing in Oil and Gas Production (1106)
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)