Demopage

REFINING PROCESS

CHEMICAL PROCESSES

ALKYLATION

  • Sulfuric acid systems: planning studies, process design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, EPC follow-up, start-up
  • HF: planning, process design troubleshooting and debottlenecking
  • Safety and environmental control facilities

AMINE UNITS

  • Screening Studies for Amine unit expansions and reconfigurations
  • Process designs for grass roots and revamped Amine units
  • Troubleshooting – system optimization, amine changes, amine degradation and heat stable salt control

ATMOSPHERIC DISTILLATION

  • Screening Studies for APS expansions and crude run changes
  • Process designs for grass roots and revamped APS units
  • APS trouble shooting and start-up
  • Improved heater operation for run length extension

COKE CALCINING

  • Coke handling facilities, combustion systems, incinerators
  • Environmental Control Facilities: SOx, NOx and PM
  • System design (grass roots, expansions and revamps), start-up and, troubleshooting

DEASPHALTING

  • Deasphalter Expansion: screening study including project economics, on-sites and off-sites impact

DELAYED COKING

  • Fired heater tube failure troubleshooting, decoking operations consulting
  • Coke cutting cycle time optimization/improvement
  • Tower bottoms fouling assessment and mitigation
  • Screening Study for Delayed Coker expansion

DEWAXING

  • Dewaxer Expansion: screening study including project economics, on-sites and off-sites impacts

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING

  • Wet scrubbing systems: technology development, process design, performance assessment, project engineering, detailed design, equipment specification and purchase, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
  • FCCU: technology improvements (cyclones, feed zones, riser terminations), cold flow modeling, process design, operating guides, troubleshooting (high catalyst losses, poor circulation), downtime studies, start-up (10) and turnaround support
  • FCCU main fractionator: tray/packing design and rating, coke mitigation in desuperheating section. Process design, troubleshooting, start-up, operations
  • Screening Studies for FCC expansions
  • Process designs and detailed engineering follow-up for revamped FCC units
  • FCC trouble shooting and start-up
  • Electrostatic Precipitators: process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up
  • Cyclones (intern & external): process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up

FLUID COKING

  • Electrostatic Precipitators: process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up  Cyclones (intern & external): process design, performance assessment, troubleshooting, operations and start-up

GASIFICATION PETROLEUM COKE / COAL

  • LBG utilization: cogeneration applications, fired heaters, boilers, gas turbines. Planning studies, process design, existing equipment evaluations, start-up, troubleshooting
  • Gas Clean-up: particulate & sulfur removal. Planning studies, technology evaluations, process design, vendor qualification, start-up, troubleshooting

HYDROCRACKING

  • Rebuild of hydrocracker heater after unit was destroyed by explosion on start-up. Root cause analysis, detailed design, project engineering, start-up and operations
  • Design Basis, process design, detailed engineering follow-up and startup of grass roots hydrocracker HYDROTREATING
  • FCCU Feed Hydrosulfurization, Naphtha Hydrofiner, Vacuum Gasoil Hydrotreater  Fixed Bed reactor designs (high and low pressure units), recycle gas compression systems, absorbers, amine regeneration systems
  • Planning studies, Process design, troubleshooting and start-up  Grass roots and revamped hydrotreaters ISOMERIZATION
  • Butylene isomerization (IFP): Planning, process design leader, EPC follow-up and start-up

LIGHT ENDS SYSTEMS

  • Screening Studies for APS, FCC and Reformer light ends expansions
  • Process designs for grass roots and revamped for APS, FCC and Reformer light ends units  Light ends trouble shooting and startup LUBES MANUFACTURE
  • White Oils catalyst deactivation
  • Additives manufacturing
  • Lube oil blending, batch and JIT systems design and operations
  • Lubes processing design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, quality improvement REFORMING
  • Design of proprietary high temperature catalytic reforming heaters
  • Revamp designs for proprietary high temperature catalytic reforming heaters
  • Revamp design for terrace wall catalytic reforming heater
  • Process designs of grassroots Naphtha reformers
  • Screening Studies for Naphtha Reforming expansions

SULFUR PLANT

  • Tail gas clean-up unit. Process development and design
  • Process design of tail gas cleanup unit revamp

SOUR WATER STRIPPER

  • Screening Studies for SWS expansions
  • Process designs for grass roots and revamped SWS units

VAC. DISTILLATION

  • Screening Studies for VPS expansions
  • Process designs for grass roots and revamped VPS units
  • VPS trouble shooting and start-up VISBREAKING
  • Fired heater optimization studies to optimize yield / unit run length
  • Furnace decoking operations consulting
  • Start-up
  • Fired heater coking predictive tools development
  • Process design of grassroots Visbreaker
  • Screening Studies for Visbreaker expansions

ACIDS

  • Sulfuric Acid: planning, process design, debottlenecking and troubleshooting

ALCOHOLS

  • Process design manager for large multi-unit oxo-alcohols plant in Contractor’s offices

AROMATICS

  • Design of catalytic reformer specifically to produce aromatics

  • Design, troubleshooting and debottlenecking of complete aromatics complex

OLEFINS

  • Design of pyrolysis furnaces

  • Design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking and startup of all sections in olefins plant

  • Studies on reboiler improvements for olefins towers

  • Safety studies of olefins plants

  • Process design group leader on major ethylene facility

  • Process designs of several revamp/expansion projects for existing ethylene facilities

  • Start-up leader on propylene super-fractionator utilizing heat pump compression

  • Process design of butylene super-fractionator utilizing heat pump compression

  • Operations Supervisor of propylene and butylene fractionation units

  • Process design of butane isomerization unit using IFP technology

PHENOLS

  • Nonyl-phenol (high & low chlorine) manufacturing: planning, process engineering & design, troubleshooting, startup, unit optimization

POLYMERS

  • Poly-isobutylene manufacture. Process design, start-up, troubleshooting, debottlenecking Butyl and Halo-butyl Polymers: Process design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, start-up, new product development

  • Air emissions quantification and permitting

  • Debottlenecking studies and revamp designs for large Unipol polyethylene plant, areas included were polymerization and finishing

POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION

  • Direct devolatilization of LLDPE, LDPE, high ethylene EP and EPDM. Conventional devolatilization extrusion equipment and LIST kneader technology

  • Air emissions quantification and permitting; emissions control technology evaluations

SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

  • Oxo alcohol manufacture. Planning, process design & engineering, troubleshooting, kinetic modeling; debottlenecking; environmental control

  • Plasticizer manufacture. Planning, process design & engineering; assessment of product grade slate change impact on plant throughput and environmental control facilities

  • Lube oil additives manufacture. (ZDDP, Ca-sulfonate, Mg-sulfonate, Polyisobutylene, Nonyl-phenol (Cl and low-Cl), Salicylic Acid, etc.) Planning, process design & engineering, troubleshooting, batch reactor optimization, batch cycle time improvement, MEI improvement; air pollution and odor control. Raw material utilization optimization and waste minimization studies

  • Air emissions quantification and permitting; emissions control technology evaluations

  • Toluene diisocyanate: process design / start-up / and operations (Supv)

  • Vitamin C: planning and process design

  • Animal anti-virus medicine: planning studies and process design

  • Tall Oil Distillation Units: planning, process design and start-up

  • Fat Splitters: planning, process design and start-up  Vegetable Oil: planning, process design and start-up

  • Soap manufacturing: revamp studies and process design including environmental efficiency improvement projects

  • Process design leader for new developmental motor oil additives unit

SYNTHESIS GASES

  • Process design manager for a partial oxidation unit to produce syngas in Contractor’s offices. Process utilized Texaco technology

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