Petroleum Industry Electrical Power Engineering Consultant

Expertise

• Design and analysis of refinery electrical systems to improve system reliability, system capability and providing full Electrical Power Engineering.
• Project development, system design, contractor follow-up, system studies, equipment applications and ratings, system and equipment protection, troubleshooting, reliability analysis, standards, and training.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Senior Electric Power Advisor, Present

• Retrofitted electrical systems, purchased power facilities, cogeneration facilities, and power distribution systems.
• Investigation of electrical upsets; evaluation of electrical system infrastructure and of transformer, circuit breaker emergency overload capability.
• Identification and correction of system and equipment protection problems.
• Analysis and correction of excessive short circuit duties.
• Application and interpretation of electrical standards.

Project Phases

• Screening, definitive planning, design specifications, and detailed-design quality control.

Key Designing

• Balancing economics and reliability; developing interconnection configurations and operating controls; designing grounding and protection; providing for future load growth and system expandability.

Representative Work

• Screening potential projects to improve the capacity and reliability of a refinery's main-power-supply; power system design for a new petrochemical plant; power system design for a major refinery expansion including new cogeneration facilities and revamp of the existing power supply.

Special Studies

• Load flow, short circuit analysis, equipment applications, generator and large motor dynamics, plant-wide stepped motor reacceleration, relay coordination, cable sizing, voltage and power factor control.