Petrochemical and Refinery Rotating Equipment Expert

Expertise

• Thirty Eight years of experience in rotating equipment.
• Service, selection, and operation of turboexpanders for fluid catalytic cracking process regeneration flue gas.
• Cogeneration services.
• Vendor experience verification.
• Rotordynamics and critical speed analysis.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Senior Engineering Fellow, Present

• Provide support and consulting of equipment analysis for industrial petroleum clients.

ExxonMobil

Annuitant and Project Oversight

Equipment Screening - Project Development

• Process plant cogeneration services.
• Compression pumping services - motor, steam, gas turbine drive.
• Utility, fuels and auxiliary systems definition.

Equipment Specification and Procurement Assistance

• Technical specification per API, ANSI, ISO standards.
• Performance requirements, including off-design.
• Utilities and auxiliary systems requirement specifications.
• Control and protective systems specifications.
• Factory inspection and quality control requirements.
• Vendor Experience Surveys and Experience verification.
• Maintenance planning and spare parts strategies.

Technical Quality Assurance

• Review vendor and contractor engineering studies.
• Rotordynamics and critical speed analysis.
• System torsional vibration analysis.
• Transient response and pulsation analysis.
• Witness factory mechanical and performance tests.

Startup Planning and Commissioning Assistance

• Review technical field service manpower plans.
• Detailed commissioning activities planning.
• Scope and checklist of mechanical turnover packages.
• Onsite technical support during commissioning.
• Participation in troubleshooting and reliability improvement initiatives.

Honors & Publications

Publications

Author of technical papers - Topics

• Vibration analysis of gas turbines and large turbomachinery
• Selection and operation of turboexpanders for Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Process regenerator flue gas

Education

• M.S. Mechancial Engineering, New Jersery Instiitute of Technology, Newark, NJ
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The City College of New York, NY