Oil Refinery, Power Generation and Waste to Energy Chemical Engineer Consultant

Technical Consultant #1548

Conventional and renewable energy industry with over twenty years of experience in power generation, oil and gas processing, polymer, and renewable energy operations.
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.
Steam and gas turbine design and optimization.

Undisclosed Company, Consultant and Director, 2014 - Present

Project management activities within conventional and renewable energy.
Review of bid and tender documentations for biomass to energy plant, oil and gas projects.
Contracts administration and management of energy projects.
Review of process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams of an oil refinery.
Project; Review of cogeneration plant for modifications.

Genesis Energy Consultancy Ltd., London, U.K., Consultant, 2009 - 2013

Project management and research activities on oil and gas and power generation projects.
Biomass to energy plant feasibility studies.
Energy audit of Crude distillation unit revamp project.
Project costing analysis (costs benefit) for an LNG plant.
Investment appraisal studies and recommendation for an oil refinery and gas separation plant.

Technip SPA, Italy, Independent Consultant, 2008 - Present

For Mckinsey & Company and Bain & Company, 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.

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, UK, 2004 -2006

Technical Director and Consultant

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, 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.

Consultant Chemical Engineer

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, 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, 2000 - 2001

Monckton Coke & Chemicals Ltd., Yorkshire, UK, 1999 - 2000

Credentials

B.Eng. Chemical Engineering-Industrial Studies (with Honors), Bradford University, United Kingdom