Chemical Process Engineer

Looking for Process Engineer position in Petrochemical/oil and gas

2012–Present Research Engineer/Scientist, Katholieke University of Leuven - KU Leuven, Belgium
Gasification, syngas production, gas cleaning/treatment, pollutant identification, State-of-the-art Process development & Process modeling, chemical engineering kinetics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, reactor cooling and modeling, Kinetic and thermodynamic modeling, multi-zone modeling, design directives, proficient using MATLAB, gPROMS, MS office, Origin
Projects handled:
• Conduct tests to study the process parameters influencing the syngas quality for waste-to-energy/resources project
• Successfully interpreted the computer simulation results with lab-scale experiments
• Developed kinetic and thermodynamic model for gasification of biomass, coal & waste gasification
• Influence of steam injection rates, air ratios, oxygen inputs and feed rates on syngas quality and economics of the process, identify major and minor gas species to determine purity
• Gas treatment technology identification and implementation to remove gas pollutants
• Responsible for technology transfer to industrial partner and consortium
• Guide PhD and Master degree students

2010–2011 Research Engineer/Scientist, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Heat and mass transfer analysis, Solid combustion process, Furnace design, SolidWorks, designing, Process modeling, kinetic studies during combustion, proficient using FDS, Solidworks, MS office
Project handled:
• Developed heat and mass transfer model for biomass timber structures
• Design furnace at the facility to perform tests
• Worked on NEWBUILDS project as high qualified skilled scientist
• Wrote technical paper and presented results in project meetings

2003–2004 Research assistant, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg, Germany
Laboratory experiments on isomerization, chemical analysis using mass spectroscopy, gas chromatography, kinetic parameter estimation, optimization studies for distillation columns with side reactors
Key tasks handled:
• Experiments and spectral analysis of components to study the chemical kinetics of isomerization and metathesis reaction.
• Optimization studies of chemical separation process (reactive distillation process)
• Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) and nonlinear programming (NLP) optimization studies of distillation columns and reactors

2006–2010 PhD in Electromechanical Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Title: Development of a Pyrolysis model for Numerical Simulations of Flame Spread over Surfaces.
2002–2004 Masters in Chemical Process Engineering, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, ECTS: 2.4 (= 70%).
Title: Synthesis of Distillation Columns with Side Reactors.
1997–2001 Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India, 72.667 % with distinction.
Title: Extraction of hydroxycitric acid, garcinol and anthocynin pigments from garcinia and process design.