Operations Supervisor

To work in pragmatic way in an organization where I can show my talent and enhance my skills to meet company goals and objective with full integrity.

Working for Sasol Technology has fully exposed me on the following processes, (1) Fischer Tropsch Synthesis process, (2) Wax hydrocracking, (3) Cobalt catalyst impregnation, calcination, reduction and regeneration, and (4) Catalytic distillation. I have been involved in numerous research projects from Lab to commercial scale, i.e. development, optimization and commercialization of Sasol’s Fresh and Regenerated Cobalt catalysts used in the GTL process, Investigation of the deactivation of cobalt catalyst caused by sulphur, cobalt catalyst testing in 2” and Micro slurry bed reactors, cobalt catalyst spray drying, assisted the Sasol Cobalt Catalyst Manufacturing Plant to produce on specification product, optimization of Sasol’s Regenerated Cobalt catalyst reduction step for purpose of Basic Engineering, semi-commercial test runs for evaluating the performance of the cobalt catalyst for scaling up purposes and catalytic distillation of C5 and C6.

I completed my Chemical Engineering National Diploma at Mangosuthu Technikon in 1997. Completed part time studies in B-Tech Degree (Chemical Engineering) with Vaal University of Technology in 2013. I also completed short courses in Chemical Engineering for Chemists and Reactor Network Design & Optimization course with the University of Witwatersrand.