Process/Chemical/Operation Engineer

Growth

I have eleven years of work experience in the field of oil refining. My experience has been in Crude Distillation Unit, Vacuum Distillation Unit, Visbreaking Unit, Hydrocracking (Isomax) unit, Distillate Hydrotreater Unit, Kerosene/LSR/LPG Merox, Amine and Sour Water Units and Sulfur Recovery Unit. I have obtained hands-on experience solving field problems, process simulation; mass and energy balances; hydraulic calculations; equipment design/redesign; fractionating tower revamp; PFD/P&ID development; operating plant technical support; unit performance test runs; troubleshooting; optimization; process economic evaluation; catalyst performance evaluations and process unit HAZOP reviews.WORK EXPERIENCE

1998-2000 Masters in Process Engineering
Technical University of Hamburg, Germany
1988-1992 Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan

April: 2002 TPA Sulfur Recovery Conference Dallas, Texas, USA.
April: 2003 Safety in the Design Operation and Maintenance of Oil and Gas Facilities and Oil Refineries, Memorial University St. John’s, Canada
Sept: 2003 Sulfur Expert Seminar Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
Nov: 2003 Equipment Reliability and Failure Analysis Workshop, HSB Reliabilities Technologies
July: 2004 UOP Merox Training, NARL Come By Chance, Canada
April: 2005 Process Troubleshooting Workshop, NARL Come By Chance, Canada
Oct: 2005 Sulfur Expert Seminar, NARL Come By Chance, Canada
Mar: 2006 Desalter Training Workshop, Baker Petrolite Canada
Apr: 2006 Hydrocracker Training Course, Shell Global Solutions, Criterion and Zeolysts, Florida
June: 2006 Isomax (Hydrocracking) Training Course, UOP, Clarenville, Canada

PROJECTS
§ Crude unit de-bottleneck project for higher throughput.
§ Heat exchanger bundles with new improved technology helical baffle design and twisted tubes to improve crude preheat and de-bottlenecking crude tower cooling capacity.
§ Reduction of H2S in #6 Oil. The chemical treatment cost was reduced from 27 to 5 Cent/bbl, saving more than $1.0 million per year and $1.5 million in cutter stock saving.
§ Study and processing of opportunity crudes (heavy and high TAN). Processed successfully high API and high TAN Hamaca crude at refinery.
§ Energy Conservation program for online cleaning of heaters, exchangers and air-cooled exchangers.
§ Visbreaker unit throughput increase from 18000 to 23000bpd.