A) Licensed Analysis, Models, Tools,
B) Licensed Processes & Equipment
 

A)  EXPERIENCE WITH LICENSED ANALYSIS AND MODELING TOOLS

• Reviewed selection of simulation for MEG/Hydrocarbon/Produced water using ProMax for glycols, OLI for saline.
• 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.

• At Petrofac reviewed alternate amines for sour-gas treating by BASF, and MEG reclaimation by Cameron & Aker.
• 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.