Using Licensed Analysis, Modeling, Tools, Processes
& Equipment
A)
EXPERIENCE WITH LICENSED ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOLS
- Used
HYSYS
to extract transport properties for hydro-treater unit hydraulics for Marathon; to review options for sour water treatment, fuel gas system, and hydrogen supply
system options for BP.
- Used
SimSci’s
PRO/II
at Shaw for flare system condensation, Hydrocracker stream transport
properties; and at Mobil R&D Corp for modeling flowsheets of
refinery processes, for many of which Mobil had developed individual unit
process modules, based upon licensor technologies.
- Used OSI
Software’s “PI” and
Baytek’s “BLISS” at BP
Cherry Point, Mobil Global Prof. Services, Mobil R&D Corp and NZ
SynFuel for real-time access to process tag data & lab sample data.
- Used
UMIST-based
“pinch” analysis when I was Senior Lecturer 1983 - 85 at University of Auckland responsible for the classes in Process Analysis & Synthesis,
Process & Plant Design and senior-year Design Project. This
optimization methodology for integration was the intellectual foundation
for Linnhoff-March, now part
of KBC.
- Used
ACSL (Advanced
Continuous Simulation Language) while Technology Supervisor at N.Z.
SynFuel to model upsets in steam system and fuel gas system, in order to
assign optimally robust control system settings so to bring these back
under control.
- We used
the original DOE “ASPEN” software at N.Z. SynFuel to model the
methanol synthesis process: I used this model to optimize the CO2 content
of the feedstock and reformer firing, under constraints of temperature
(metallurgy) and fuel consumption.
- While a
Team Leader at ICF Consulting
used their methodologies for CO2 reduction technologies, electricity
transmission modeling, and national-scale power markets.
B)
EXPERIENCE
WITH LICENSED PROCESSES AND EQUIPMENT
- At
PetroMAS Engineering Services I was responsible for start-up and
commissioning several UOP-licensed Merox fixed-bed units for
sweetening light-end process streams.
- Also at
PetroMAS I was responsible for startup & trouble-shooting operation of
fired
heaters from Foster-Wheeler
including starting up an entire refinery from cold on LPG then gradual
switch over to refinery fuel gas operation.
- At NZ
SynFuel I worked directly with commissioning engineers from Davy PowerTech
on their methanol
plant design for twin 1,000 MT/day units using ICI synthesis process,
In my reformer optimization work I went to John Zink in Tulsa to oversee testing
of new burners with a longer flame to safely achieve a 9% increase in
feedstock throughput, and with Haldor-Topsoe
on optimum operation of catalysts
for heavily top-fired reforming.
- At Mobil
R&D Corporation I was chosen to arbitrate between two, competing, internal
developments for estimating missing properties from a crude assay with
incomplete data. Although they both started from the same intellectual base,
the “MAPS” I chose was more capable of dealing with data updates,
better documented code & user support.
- At Mobil
R&D Corp I was privy to work our Process Engineering group was doing
with Kellogg
on advances in FCC
internals, such as Atomax nozzles.
|
