Chemical Processes

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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