PROFILE:
Commissioning and Startup of Facilities
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1995 Mobil Torrance Refinery
Implemented, calibrated and tested CEM (Continuous Emissions Monitoring
systems) for Torrance Refinery during the startup after a planned turnaround.
Established parameters for sensor validation, false readings, duration for NOV,
and instituted a 15-minute time limit to report if real or not. Later audited the refinery emissions report.
1994
Mobil
Introduced
new fugitive monitoring equipment ,with diagnostics to prevent falsified data.
Used pre- & post-turnaround to validate emissions reduction in lube unit
rotary filters and on any pumps that now had a new secondary seal installed.
1992
Mobil Research & Development
Team leader for engineers building real-time “Process
Advisories” for Mobil refineries world-wide. Diagnostic and
self-adjusting tools, based on 1-minute values from
“PI” data historian, process analyzer readings and LIMS data from lab.
1985 New Zealand
Synthetic Fuels
$1.2
billion Natural Gas-to-Methanol- Synthetic Gasoline project using ICI’s 100 bar methanol reactors and Mobil’s ZSM-5
catalysis. Conducted full-scale testing of all O&U units during
commissioning, part of acceptance tests from Bechtel. This included CTI testing
of a 300 meter long cooling tower, an Air Products” Liquid Nitrogen cryogenic
plant, plus site dewatering, treating raw river water intake from
clarification through a demin. unit
to RO unit for BFW.
After startup, stayed on for five more years as Technical
Department supervisor for operations support, before being transferred .to
Mobil R&D in
1978
Ergon Refining,
After
completing detailed design of a 40% capacity expansion to accommodate light and
medium gravity crudes, did P&ID
as-builts, instrument loop checkout, set-point &
alarm setting during commissioning and startup.
Assisted in
field tests of a pipeline of finely ground coal suspended in #6 fuel oil feed
to Mississippi Power & Light.
1972 & 1974
Gladieux Refinery,
• During startup after turnaround,
responsible for night shift monitoring & advice in crude/vacuum/fuel gas
treating
• Conducted operator training on their new
operator control panels, alarm panels and smarter signal transmitters.
